My Folks from the Hills

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Zeb and his washboard (1940)

That's cousin Cecil in the back (my mother's brother). He played a mean fiddle (with his teeth, feet etc as well as clarinet and other instruments.) How many people do you know that can play a balloon or saw? Well Cecil and Zeb could and they did it very well.

I always knew them as Uncle Frank (Zeb) and Uncle Louie (Cecil) but to the rest of the world they were hillbillies.

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