This picture was taken of Ralph and Marion at Mount Vernon on their trip to Washington D.C. when Ralph received his National Heritage Fellowship. The caption of this image in Ralph Stanley's autobiography reads, "Marion and me on the porch at Mount Vernon, wondering where those boots went." The boots in question were the boots that George Washington supposedly gave to Jacob Lurvey, a Stanley ancestor, when he was developing frostbite at Valley Forge.
Description: This picture was taken of Ralph and Marion at Mount Vernon on their trip to Washington D.C. when Ralph received his National Heritage Fellowship. The caption of this image in Ralph Stanley's autobiography reads, "Marion and me on the porch at Mount Vernon, wondering where those boots went." The boots in question were the boots that George Washington supposedly gave to Jacob Lurvey, a Stanley ancestor, when he was developing frostbite at Valley Forge. [show more]
"The liquor store, left, was built first. The next building to the right was the second one built - originally a fish market and then Barbara Strubell's hair salon."
Description: "The liquor store, left, was built first. The next building to the right was the second one built - originally a fish market and then Barbara Strubell's hair salon."
Left to Right: Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Bruce Noble Morang (1930-1993) Marcia (Vannah) Morang, Mrs. Bruce Noble Morang "Bruce and Marcia Morang were presented with a half-model I made as an award at the Friendship Sloop Society annual meeting in 1992." - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 117.
Description: Left to Right: Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Bruce Noble Morang (1930-1993) Marcia (Vannah) Morang, Mrs. Bruce Noble Morang "Bruce and Marcia Morang were presented with a half-model I made as an award at the Friendship Sloop Society annual meeting in 1992." - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 117.