@alltheoatmeal All of that for sure ... And journalist as cultural historian ...
https://www.wfdd.org/story/across-blue-ridge-105-breaking-christmas #PaulBrown #Appalachia #BreakingUpChristmas #fiddle #clawhammerbanjo #NorthCarolina
Here's a reprise of Paul Brown's Breaking Up Christmas: A Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday, produced for NPR member stations and first aired in late 1996. Across the Blue Ridge host Paul Brown directed a two-year fundraising, fieldwork and production process that resulted in the one-hour special program featuring a heartwarming musical holiday tradition in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the popular fiddle tune and song that bears its name.