The White Top Folk Festival was a folk festival

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 held on Whitetop Mountain

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Whitetop Mountain is the second highest mountain in the U.S. state of Virginia, after nearby Mount Rogers. It is located at the juncture of Grayson, Smyth, and Washington Counties in the state of Virginia. Whitetop was the location of the White Top Folk Festival from 1932 to 1939, with the...

 in Grayson County, Virginia

Grayson County, Virginia

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 from 1932 to 1939. Established by Annabel Morris Buchanan, John Blakemore, and classical music

Classical music

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ian John Powell

John Powell

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, it featured Appalachian folk music. At its height, the festival hosted First Lady

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 Eleanor Roosevelt

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in 1933. The festival was not held in 1937, and was canceled in 1940 due to flooding. It did not resume again.