Admission is free followed by a reception. The event takes place June 21-24 at Summersville Music Park. Ralph Stanley, Rarely Herd, J.D. Crowe and New South, Del McCoury, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Josh Graves and Kenny Baker, IIIrd Tyme Out, and the Reno Brothers . The movie, starring Willem Dafoe and Luo Yan , is a tale of yearning for freedom and forbidden love set in the last days of imperial China. Buck was born in West Virginia in 1892 to Presbyterian missionaries, but was taken to China as an infant, where she lived more than 40 years.
Organizers say they are trying to bring the film to West Virginia.
That would be a cuckoo bird, of course. Latelle Lafollette contributed the aforementioned work of art to Flights of Fancy, the third annual spring fund-raiser for Sunrise Museum and the Charleston Ballet. Local artists and media personalities have designed birdhouses for the Flights of Fancy silent auction. And no, that is not a typographical error in the first paragraph. Lafollette has emblazoned the four sides of his white birdhouse with pencillike sketches of Curly, Moe, Larry - and Shemp, who along with Joe and Curly Joe was once part of the famous slapstick trio.