MOUNT VERNON — Though not always looked at as a proper member of society, the fiddler was once central to rural American social life.
Fiddle players provided the music and calling that fueled the dances which were places of entertainment, blowing off steam, and very often, places for young couples to meet and begin relationships.
As we’ve talked about previously in History Knox, such figures as musicians Dan Emmett and Orrin Pharris were important in the life of central Ohio and beyond.
Music mattered.
It is thus…
