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    Page 6 DURHAM-- ITEM 6 DURHAM: LS OF COUNTRYSIDE FROM HEIGHT ON FARM. IN F.G. ARE A FEW GARROWAY: MULES & COWS GRAZING AND NEGRO FAMILY CUT- The songs of America are rooted TING STOVE WOOD. IN DISTANCE IS THE PIED- MONT, AND THE HILLS BEYOND. In this earth *,, SUNG VERY SOFTLY like here on Blalock?╟╓s Farm off TO B.G., WE HEAR JOAN MOSER SING- ING "BLACK BLACK Erlwin Road in Durham, North Car- IS THE COLOR OF olina. Out of this land came the MY TRUE LOVE?╟╓S HAIR" OR "GOLDEN VANITY." ballads and the story songs, the hymns ~and the hallelujahs, the work songs and the blues. PAN TO WAGON AND MULE DRIVEN BY MAN Out of the people traveling down & COMING OVER THE HUMP IN ROAD AND that lonesome road, the road of DOWN ROAD. THE DOG IS TROTTING BEFORE THE MULE. DISSOLVE TO JOAN MOSER SINGING FOR 20 SECONDS AND AUDIO UP PULL. SHE IS LEANING AGAINST THE OLD BROKEN WAGON AND IS ACCOMPANYING HER- SELF ON THE DULCIMER. their lives, the songs were born. INTERCUT TO WOMEN SETTING UP A PICNIC .,, born on the land they walk TABLE WHICH IS MADE OF CHICKEN WIRE upon... STRETCHED OVER 2x4?╟╓s, THEN A WHITE C LOTH IS born of the love and beauty of LAID OVER IT. THE BACK- GROUND IS THE TOBACCO their women.., FARM WHICH LOOKS LIKE AN OLD LOG CABIN. born of their longings and their dreams.