Playing Above Its Weight: Reporting for The Assembly about Merlefest and its impact on my hometown

The Watson Stage at Wilkes Community College (author photo)

One of the highlights of my career as a journalist was reporting this long-form piece for The Assembly on the Eddy Merle Watson Memorial Festival, aka Merlefest, which takes place yearly in my birthplace, Wilkesboro, N.C. 

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