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Scope and Contents This collection contains research notes made by Howard Dorgan as he visited Old Regular Baptist churches in Kentucky and Virginia between 1986 and 1987.  Dorgan was invited to do this work by Darvin and Gaynell Marshall who study the mountain culture of southwest Virginia.  This work was partially funded by an Appalachian Studies Fellowship Grant awarded by the Appalachian Center at Berea College.  Howard Dorgan, at the time of the research, was from the Department of Communication Arts at...