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Folk Art Center ground breaking ceremony

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  • An outdoor display of crafts was installed for the Folk Art Center ground breaking ceremony. Prominent among the crafts are an array of Cherokee baskets. The photograph was made on June 7, 1977 at the Folk Art Center site on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, North Carolina. Attending the event was Joan Mondale, wife of Vice President Mondale. Mondale was accompanied by the wife of the U.S. Senator from North Carolina, Robert B. Morgan, and Lana Gudger, wife of Vonno Lamar Gudger, a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina's 11th District. In this photograph, Cherokee basket weaver, Edmund Youngblood talks with visitors about his baskets. The photograph was likely taken by David Gaynes.