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[Stir-off Dancing]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Stir-off Time, the harvesting of sorghum and the process of extracting out its juices and boiling it down into molasses was a day and night process that brought families, neighbors and friends together for this last social event in the Fall season. Besides sharing in the labor they also shared in fun and dance as local musicians came to play as did many of the single folk used this as an opportunity to meet and court. Overall Background: These… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Women at an outdoor quilting bee]

Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photo of women in the Powell Valley during the early 1940s in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Quilters have set-up a piece of fabric and are sewing on a drawn pattern during a quilting bee. This is a 2 1/4 X 2 1/4 B&W negative.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Woman attending outdoor quilting bee]

Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photo of a woman in the Powell Valley during the early 1940s in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. The quilter is walking to a neighbor's home for a Quilting Bee with quilt in hand. This is a 2 1/4 X 2 1/4 B&W negative.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Watching and waiting for sampling of molasses]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 People watching the molasses syrup as it boils down use short pieces of sorghum cane stalk to make “sop sticks” used to dip into the molasses syrup for a taste. This was the height of the fall social season. Harvesting the sorghum, extracting the juice, boiling it down into molasses could take days and weeks going round the clock to finish. Overall Background: These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the early to mid… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mmm Mmm Good]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014: People watching the molasses syrup as it boils down use short pieces of sorghum cane stalk to make “sop sticks,” which are used to dip into the molasses syrup for a taste. This was the height of the fall social season. Harvesting the sorghum, extracting the juice, boiling it down into molasses could take days and weeks going round the clock to finish. Overall Background: These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the … more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Students entering Locust Grove School, 1]

Photograph of children lined up and entering the Locust Grove School house. There is a teacher standing at the door greeting the students as they enter. There is a forty-eight star american flag attached to a pole in the background.

Date: 195X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A Moment Alone]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014: This couple has found a break in the celebration to sneak off and catch up on some time alone. Kissing games at Stir-off gatherings are a favorite pastime. Looks like a few girls in the background are jealous and looking for a beau. The kissing game usually started with single boys and girls forming a circle. A girl would run around the circle and tag a boy and he would then chase her around the circle. The idea being that if she beat him back… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Sorghum Squeezins' Headed for the Stir-off]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014: Five gallon lard cans full of the extracted juice from the sorghum cane is loaded up and carted to the Stir-off site. It will be poured into metal vats and boiled down into molasses all the time being "stirred" and the impurities being siphoned "off"; eventually becoming the finest molasses one can imagine. Overall Background: These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the early to mid-1940s. Either on the farm of Fr… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Women at an outdoor quilting bee]

Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photo of women in the Powell Valley during the early 1940s in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Quilters display their fiber artworks at a quilting bee. This is a 2 1/4 X 2 1/4 B&W negative.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Young Boy & Girl Warming their Hands]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 People watching the molasses syrup as it boils down use short pieces of sorghum cane stalk to make “sop sticks” used to dip into the molasses syrup for a taste. This was the height of the fall social season. Harvesting the sorghum, extracting the juice, boiling it down into molasses could take days and weeks going round the clock to finish. Overall Background: These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the early to mid… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[One Mule Power]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014: One mule powers this grinding mill where long into the night sorghum cane is pressed, then the juice is extracted and boiled down into molasses. Harvest time and the making of molasses runs 24/7 when the cane is ready. Overall Background: Edit: These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the early to mid-1940s. Either on the farm of Fred Whitaker about four miles southwest of Cumberland Gap, or in Cumberland Gap on the… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Women at an outdoor quilting bee]

Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photo of women, a girl, and a man in the Powell Valley during the early 1940s in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. The quilters set-up a piece of fabric to begin sewing while a young girl watches their work. A man hangs quilts on a wooden wall behind the women. This is a 2 1/4 X 2 1/4 B&W negative.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Sampling the Molasses]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Stir-off party goers sample the molasses with sop sticks. Overall Background: These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the early to mid-1940s. Either on the farm of Fred Whitaker about four miles southwest of Cumberland Gap, or in Cumberland Gap on the farm of Baptist preacher the Rev. Hugh Vancel. More information about these images can be found in scrapbooks in the Clark Family Collection at the University of North… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Outdoor Quilting Bee]

Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photo of women in the Powell Valley during the early 1940s in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. The quilters gather outdoors at a neighbor's home for a Quilting Bee. This is a 2 1/4 X 2 1/4 B&W negative.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Arriving at the Stir-off]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Friends and neighbors come from miles around to participate in the Molasses Making Stir-off. Overall Background: These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the early to mid-1940s. Either on the farm of Fred Whitaker about four miles southwest of Cumberland Gap, or in Cumberland Gap on the farm of Baptist preacher the Rev. Hugh Vancel. More information about these images can be found in scrapbooks in the Clark Family Co… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Grinding Cane]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Sorghum cane is fed into a mule drawn press where the juice is extracted and collected. Overall Background: These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the early to mid-1940s. Either on the farm of Fred Whitaker about four miles southwest of Cumberland Gap, or in Cumberland Gap on the farm of Baptist preacher the Rev. Hugh Vancel. More information about these images can be found in scrapbooks in the Clark Family Collect… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Old Time Dancing]

Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photograph is from 1940s and is shot in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Students of "Pappy" Hiram Frakes School learn old time dances. This photo appeared in National Geographic Magazine.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Stirring the Molasses]

From the storage barrels, the cane juice is poured into the boiling vat where it is stirred and skimmed constantly during its entire cooking period. As the cane juice nears the 'lasses stage it begins to form into a rich, creamy foam. Joe Clark, HBSS Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014: Overall Background: These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the early to mid-1940s. Either on the farm of Fred Whitaker about four miles southwest of Cumberland Gap, o… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Couple Sampling the molasses with Sop Sticks]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 People watching the molasses syrup as it boils down use short pieces of sorghum cane stalk to make “sop sticks” used to dip into the molasses syrup for a taste. This was the height of the fall social season. Harvesting the sorghum, extracting the juice, boiling it down into molasses could take days and weeks going round the clock to finish. Overall Background: These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the early to mi… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Walking home by lantern light(1)]

Photograph of Cecil Ray with his arm around a Bonnie Burns as they walk along a gravel path. Burns carries a gas lamp while the Cecil Ray carries a small pail of sorghum molasses while they both laugh and smile. Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Walking Home by Lantern Light. This is a typical scene at the end of a stir-off event. It is a scene Joe tried to capture many times. It is a good shot and has been published, but it is not the "kill-shot" the one "picture that tells a… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Women sewing at an outdoor quilting bee]

Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photo of women in the Powell Valley during the early 1940s in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. The quilters gather at a neighbor's home for a Quilting Bee. This is a 2 1/4 X 2 1/4 B&W negative.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Stir-off Sing-a-Long]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 People watching the molasses syrup as it boils down use short pieces of sorghum cane stalk to make “sop sticks” used to dip into the molasses syrup for a taste. This was the height of the fall social season. Harvesting the sorghum, extracting the juice, boiling it down into molasses could take days and weeks going round the clock to finish. Joe Clark, HBSS has type-written on this print. “Between dances and games Delma Huddleston leads the youn… more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Women quilting outdoors]

Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photo of women in the Powell Valley during the early 1940s in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. The quilters gather at a neighbor's home for a Quilting Bee. This is a 2 1/4 X 2 1/4 B&W negative.

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Harvested Sorghum Stalks]

Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014 Sorghum cane stalks being gathered. Eventually the stalks are ground and the juice extracted, poured into vats and boiled down into molasses. Overall Background: These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the early to mid-1940s. Either on the farm of Fred Whitaker about four miles southwest of Cumberland Gap, or in Cumberland Gap on the farm of Baptist preacher the Rev. Hugh Vancel. More information about these images … more

Date: 194X

Creator: Clark, Joe

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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