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This companion to Arthur Mann Kaye’s collection of essays, The Coastal Plains, was one of NC Wesleyan College Press’s last titles. It includes Tom Patterson’s essay on Mrs. Way’s Museum in Belhaven, NC; Milton Quigless’s extraordinary memoir of his two weeks spent on the Rabbit’s Foot Minstrels in 1922; and Alex Albright’s essay on Silas Green from New Orleans and Winstead’s Mighty Minstrels. Also lots of previously unpublished photos from African-American traveling vaudeville shows.