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- The counties that make up southwestern Virginia and northeastern Tennessee are linked historically, culturally, and geographically. The shared decorative arts tradition of this region is known as the Great Road Style, so called because of the region’s historical importance as a stage route connecting the eastern seaboard with the western frontier. The material culture of this region is evidenced in distinctive forms of furniture, ceramics, textiles, and metalwork. The first substantive effort to conduct primary research of the Great Road Style's is Great Road Style: The Decorative Arts Legacy of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee, by Betsy White. The book involved thousands of hours’ worth of fieldwork conducted across Tennessee and Virginia in an attempt to offer the most detailed accounting possible of handmade objects produced along the Great Road before 1940. The eventual product of that exhaustive research was an archive of photographs, slides, and data sheets on more than two thousand objects representing diverse sectors of the survey area. In organizing and providing a narrative for this treasure trove of material, White and her research team have defined and delineated for the first time what constitutes Great Road Style. (en)
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- The counties that make up southwestern Virginia and northeastern Tennessee are linked historically, culturally, and geographically. The shared decorative arts tradition of this region is known as the Great Road Style, so called because of the region’s historical importance as a stage route connecting the eastern seaboard with the western frontier. The material culture of this region is evidenced in distinctive forms of furniture, ceramics, textiles, and metalwork. (en)
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