Tom Davenport
An American version of 'Snow White' where Willa joins a traveling medicine show to escape her evil step-mother.
A re-telling of Cinderella set in the rural south during World War II
Adapted from an Appalachian Jack Tale set in the late 1940s, this tale follows a World War II veteran named Jack who, in return for an act of kindness, receives two magical gifts: a sack that can catch anything and a jar that can show whether a sick person will recover or die. Jack becomes a national hero when he rescues the president's daughter from a serious illness by capturing Death in his magic sack. However, after many years without Death in the world, Jack realizes that he has upset the natural order and releases Death to save humankind from perpetual old age and misery.
In this comic variant of the Grimm's story, The Master Thief, a poor laborer's son wants to marry the dentist's daughter.
A soldier can not return home after he leaves the army, and can not find a job. Desperation drives him to make a deal with the Devil, who makes a bet with him. For the next seven years, he will carry a purse of gold that's always full. However, he must wear a bearskin and neither pray nor wash nor cut his hair in all that time. If he survives, he can keep the purse, but if he dies, the Devil gets his soul.
A girl acts spoiled and doesn't want to marry any of the suitors that come for her hand. One guy, who she nick-names "Bristlelip" makes a deal with her father for her hand. The next day "Bristlelip" comes disguised as a peddler, and the girl becomes his unwilling bride. He carries her off to his crude cabin, all the while commenting on her questions about properties. The girl proves to be an unfit (at housework) wife at first, trying her hand at cooking, spinning, basketry, and even sales of pottery to no avail.
An upper-class, late 19th-century dining room where a wealthy industrialist presides as "king" sets the stage for this version of "The Frog King," the classic tale about a princess's promise to a frog.
Rapunzel imprisoned in a tall wooden tower by a witch, allows a young man to climb her long brown hair to visit her.
An Appalachian version of the classic story of the courage and loyalty of two children abandoned in the forest.
A biographical documentary following the life of the legendary country blues musician "Peg Leg Sam" Jackson.
A series of interviews with and performances by the attendees and musicians at the Warrenton, Virgina country music festival in 1972.
