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A Day With Lee Smith

A Day With Lee Smith Silas House Appalachian Heritage, Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2003, pp. 16-23 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2003.0056 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/432745/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 18:33 GMT from JHU Libraries FEATURED AUTHOR—LEE SMITH A Day With Lee Smith________________ Silas House Lee Smith is crying. People have seen her caught up in laughter many, many times; her friends and fans are always talking about how funny she is. But today, sitting in the warmth of her pink house in Hillsborough, North Carolina, she is in tears. She is thinking back to when she sat in Carnegie Hall during a performance by the soundtrack members of O Brother Where Art Thou? and saw Ralph Stanley come out onto the stage. "When I was a little girl, Ralph and his brother Carter used to come over to perform at my uncle's drive-in theater," she says. "They would get up on top of the flat-roofed cinderblock concession stand and play music for an hour or so before the movie started. Then, at the Carnegie, Ralph came out and stood all by himself on the huge center stage—all lights dark except for a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

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Silas House Appalachian Heritage, Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2003, pp. 16-23 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2003.0056 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/432745/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 18:33 GMT from JHU Libraries FEATURED AUTHOR—LEE SMITH A Day With Lee Smith________________ Silas House Lee Smith is crying. People have seen her caught up in laughter many, many times; her friends and fans are always talking about how funny she is. But today, sitting in the warmth of her pink house in Hillsborough, North Carolina, she is in tears. She is thinking back to when she sat in Carnegie Hall during a performance by the soundtrack members of O Brother Where Art Thou? and saw Ralph Stanley come out onto the stage. "When I was a little girl, Ralph and his brother Carter used to come over to perform at my uncle's drive-in theater," she says. "They would get up on top of the flat-roofed cinderblock concession stand and play music for an hour or so before the movie started. Then, at the Carnegie, Ralph came out and stood all by himself on the huge center stage—all lights dark except for a

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