George Bird Evans and Kay Evans With 'Blue' and 'Ruff', Preston County, W. Va.
Date:
1950
Description:
Co-Authors, George Bird and Kay Evans pose with others members of their family, "Blue and "Ruff" while Kay holds a copy of the couples' first novel, "Death In Four Colors", published under the pen name, "Brandon Bird". The photograph was taken at their home, "Old Hemlock Farm" in Preston County, West Virginia.
Lt. Col. F. K. Everest, Chief of Flight Test Operations Laboratory at Edwards Air Force base, Calif., and test pilot for the North American F-200, unofficially set a new world speed record of 754.96 miles per hour over a 15 kilometer course in an F-100 "Super Sabre" along the Salton Sea in California, 29, October 1953.'
George Bird Evans, Wife, Kay Evans at Home, Preston County, W. Va.
Date:
1965/ 09/22
Description:
Authors, hunters, and dog breeders, George and Kay Evans pose in the living room of their 18th century home, "Old Hemlock" in Preston County, West Virginia.
Two men sitting on a rail outside The Big 4 Drug Store, located on the corner of 3rd Avenue and Temple Street, in Hinton, W. Va. A membership card identifies K. D. Foster, on the right, as the Vice President of The Rail Club.
This is the house in Gilmer County near Tanner, West Virginia, where the music and the chorus to the West Virginia Hills was written by the late H. E. Engle.