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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThirty years ago today D. Ray White was murdered
One of the best Appalachian Flat Foot Dancers
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Thirty years ago today D. Ray White was murdered (Original Post)
MattBaggins
Jul 2015
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Paka
(2,760 posts)1. I enjoyed that.
There's so much great local history that goes unforgoten.
Go Vols
(5,902 posts)2. I suggest
people watch "the dancing outlaw" or " The Wild Wonderful Whites of West Virginia"
There is not a lot of film on D Ray
Go Vols
(5,902 posts)3. this ain't bad
Response to Go Vols (Reply #3)
merrily This message was self-deleted by its author.
merrily
(45,251 posts)5. Cool. I saw a film that included flat footing only once before this. The style I saw was much less
animated. The upper body was kept more still, something like like Celtic dancers. And the footwork, was not as animated as in these films or as animated as Celtic dancers. The steps were small and indeed flat.
Overall, it looked more effortless, although all of it, the footwork and the stillness, took a lot of focus and effort.
Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)6. Here is information on him and his murder:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._Ray_White
Steve Allen Rowe, 30, also of Prenter, located in Boone County, West Virginia, home of the White family, shot D. Ray and sons Jesco and Dorsey White with a 12-gauge shotgun outside D. Ray's home on July 2, 1985, stemming from an argument between White and his sons and Rowe. Jesco and Dorsey were injured, and D. Ray was killed by a shotgun wound to the chest.[3]
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)7. A tribute to D. Ray White