From the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Coalfields
region, Southwest Virginia is blessed with historic
and contemporary music venues, musicians, and
fretted instrument makers. Historically isolated, the
region retained its strong musical legacy b…
William Elbert Munsey was born a few mileseast in the mountains of Giles (present-day Bland)County on 13 July 1833. Despite little formalschooling, Munsey possessed an insatiableappetite for knowledge. He entered the ministryof the Methodist Churc…