#minnie adkins

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Minnie Adkins.

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Minnie Adkins. Dog

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Minnie Adkins - Mad, Glad

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reptiles 🦎

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Black Bear, Minnie Adkins

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We just discovered the Kentucky Folk Art Center collection on JSTOR and we can't even.

Here you see: a lion by Minnie Adkins, a tiger by Noah Kinney, a man and bear by Denzil Goodpaster, a "wild booger" by Charles Kinney, and an alligator by Minnie Black.

There are 470 additional images in the collection, and they're all *chef's kiss*. Free to everyone, no login needed.

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Painted wood carving of a red fox by legendary folk artist Minnie Adkins on view at the Kentucky Folk Art Center in Morehead, Kentucky. (Photo by Darrin Devault, June 7, 2017)

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things in ephram’s bedroom at his momma’s house

a 10-page book report on Watership Down (Grade 7); he got 20/20 although his teacher noted that he’d only been required to write 5 pages

safety gear from when he was working in the coal mine (pictured below)

a Bonford Coal ringer tee for their baseball team, as well as a tied-up worn glove

A torn-out page from some church circular stuck on his mirror with the “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate” quote incorrectly attributed to Nelson Mandela

an Altoids tin of gold pipe screens and a sticky-with-old-oil blue bullet pipe

two baby teeth in a navy-blue cardboard ring box, carefully poked into the cotton 

a shoe box of mix CDs from Alesha 

a felt pennant from the Louisville Zoo

an unopened bottle of Orbitz soda, pineapple banana cherry coconut

three brightly-painted bricks: one psychedelic, one geometric, one with stylized raccoons, used as bookends

no less than 4 Baja hoodies, one with a torn-out Cosmo quiz in the pocket intended for a couple to fill out (the girl’s part filled out in full, the boy’s part half-heartedly attempted but not complete)

various brands of sleeping pills in stages of depletion

a Minnie Adkins blue rooster, an unframed print of Henry Lawrence Faulkner’s Alice Hi on Butterfly, and (something like, but painted by himself) Joshua Huettig’s The Birth of All

double bed with chenille bedspread

a small hoard of packaged foodstuff (protein bars, candy, MREs, some expired)

a cardboard tube filled with rolled-up band, movie, and girlie posters

a leather-bound Bible with gold page edges and Jesus’ dialogue in red, with the family tree page filled out in different handwriting for each name

3 sizes of harmonica, a battered guitar, two homemade banjos (one from a corn oil tin and one from a cigar box), a violin bow, mismatched drumsticks

a banker’s box with meticulously filed paperwork from Ashland FCI, the various jobs he’s held, and a photocopy of a cheque made out to him in the amount of $15 from Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel in 2009

a photograph frame that holds three snapshots: one of great-grandparents Edith & Emory Crabtree, an artsy b&w shot of him and Marigold, and one of Uncle Odell 

an entire taxidermy wild turkey

a Mom Blakeman’s cream pulled taffy tin filled with ballpoint pens, American flag pins, and a fossilized bottle of black nail polish

whittled hens, whistles, bears, dogs - some with the initials EC, but two different ECs; both Edith & Emory whittled

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MINNIE ADKINS

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Harts News 10.29.1926

Community news for #Harts #LincolnCounty #WV in 1926 #Appalachia #history #genealogy

An unknown correspondent from Harts in Lincoln County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on October 29, 1926:

We are glad to report that Ira Tomblin, who has been very low with typhoid fever, is improving nicely at present.

Miss Garnet Sias of Latrobe was the guest of Miss Cora Adkins Saturday.

Keenan Toney of Toney was a smiling Democrat in Harts Tuesday.

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Third Shakespearean comedy for Port Elizabeth

Bob Eveleigh writes: Linda-Louise Swain is staging Much Ado About Nothing for the PE Shakespearean Festival at Mannville from March 1-11.

Much Ado About Nothing

The PE Shakespearean Festival took Clover Showtime Show of the Year Awards in January 2016 and 2017 in Port Elizabeth with Twelfth Night and The Tempest, directed by award-winning Lesley Barnard and Helen Flax respectively.

Much Ado About Nothing will run at Mannville, the open-air theatre in St George’s Park at 7.30pm each evening from March 1 to 11, excluding Sunday, March 5. The Festival’s traditional Patrons Night is on Tuesday, February 28

Swain is setting her production in 1920’s colonial Kenya, where, after one of many skirmishes, Governor Leonato receives Don Pedro and his ex-British army fellows and immediately plans a true Happy Valley set-style party, Charleston and pink gins included.

And there begins the Much Ado about Nothing fun, sparked by the constant verbal sparring between the highly-spirited and free-thinking flapper, Beatrice, and the sworn bachelor, Benedick.

Add some loathsome and cunning plans of betrayal by the baddies and Hero being “exposed” and left at the altar, this romp through the tale of love lost and regained in an era of wanton abandon will leave audiences with the realization that the Bard truly wrote for all times.

This tongue-in-cheek production includes the renegade ex-British South African Policeman – Dogberry – who went AWOL from colonial Rhodesia, skipped a few borders with the German East African invasion and, while based in Tanganyika, decided to skip yet another border, for colonial Kenya.

This role is portrayed in classic “safari-suit” style by Leslie Speyers, moving easily from his double Clover Showtime 2017 Award-winning Best Comedy Actor and Best Actor in a Musical 2016 Pantomime Dame in Puss in Boots role into safari jacket and shorts, complete with comb-in-the-sock idiosyncrasy.

The delightful roles of Benedick and Beatrice are played by Jacques Batista and Bernadine Gardiner – both last seen together in the 2000 production of Hamlet in the Fort in PE where they played brother and sister, Laertes and Ophelia.

Also returning to the Shakespearean stage after his successful portrayal of Richard III several years ago, is journalist Brett Adkins, in the role of gentleman baddie, Borachio, a man with a penchant for stiff drinks and loose women.

With choreography by Jerry Fortuin, other key role-players are Jonathan Minnie as Leonato, Jamie-Lee Reynolds as his daughter, Hero, Timothy Collier as Claudio, Arthur Daniels, fresh from his Showtime revue success last month in A Grand Night for Singing, as Don Pedro, with Karel Swanepoel and Matthew Nel alternating the role of Don John.

Bookings and block bookings should be made with Helen Wilkins on 041 5811738 and tickets may also be purchased from 6.45pm at the theatre on the evening of your choice. Audience members are invited to bring their blankets and picnic baskets to enjoy the balmy pre-show open-air theatre ambience at Mannville.

The entrance is opposite St George’s Hospital in Park Drive and a coffee shop will be open for interval snacks – and don’t forget the mosquito repellant.

Third Shakespearean comedy for Port Elizabeth was originally published on Artsvark

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Meet Artist Minnie Adkins, A Featured Artist in the Traditions/Innovation Exhibit Opening February 1, 2013

Excerpt from the Folk Art Society of America > Read the full article here 

As a small child she was intrigued by the whittling she saw men doing, so her father gave her a pocketknife, and she soon ventured into distinctly unladylike territory.

"I started out making slingshots," she said. "Well, you can take the same type forked stick and make a rooster out of it, and then you've got something."

For many years, she continued making roosters, birds, and other hand-size creatures, giving them away or selling them for small change. She first received notice in 1973, in Worldwide Avon Collectors Magazine: "Minnie Adkins brought Avons and handmade items" [to the Worldwide Avon Collectors Show in Dayton].

Minnie's recognition has come in part from her own work and in part from her activities championing the artistic abilities of others. Many other regional folk artists, including Tim Lewis, Linvel Barker and Jimmy Lewis, point to Minnie as the pivotal source of encouragement for their work and of introductions to the flow of collectors visiting Isonville.

Minnie's art has extended well beyond wood sculpture to include paintings and, recently, collaboration on ceramic platters with her artist-cousin, Tess Little. Other collaborations include quilts made locally and limited-edition or one-of-a kind blown-glass vases, all decorated with her animal designs.

Come see some of Minnie Adkins creations at the Portsmouth Art & Cultural Center beginning February 1.

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