Growing beards for the MT Festival in 1958
2020-09-01 - Adair County, KY - Photo from Mike Watson, loaned and identified by Betty Shirley Knifley
These gentlemen were Columbia's Mark Twain Festival Beard Growing contestants in the year 1958. Front row [seated], left to right: Fred Troutman, Charles Barnes, Joe Russell Barbee, Ivan Shively, James Montgomery, and James Edwin Shirley.
Back row, left to right: Morris Moran, Billy Wilson, Billy “Bulldog” Curry, Coy Downey, and Charles Cole. James Edwin Shirley was the winner of the Beard Growing Contest, 1958 and his daughter Betty loaned and identified the men in the photo. Comments | Permalink
2020-09-01 - Adair County, KY - Photo from Mike Watson, loaned and identified by Betty Shirley Knifley
These gentlemen were Columbia's Mark Twain Festival Beard Growing contestants in the year 1958. Front row [seated], left to right: Fred Troutman, Charles Barnes, Joe Russell Barbee, Ivan Shively, James Montgomery, and James Edwin Shirley.
Back row, left to right: Morris Moran, Billy Wilson, Billy “Bulldog” Curry, Coy Downey, and Charles Cole. James Edwin Shirley was the winner of the Beard Growing Contest, 1958 and his daughter Betty loaned and identified the men in the photo. Comments | Permalink