Alice Gerrard on Elizabeth Cotton

In this video Alice talks about meeting legendary folk artist Elizabeth Cotton and her wishes to be laid down in a river and carried away, rather than to be buried in the ground.

Gerrard was the subject of a video produced during the 2009 Community Folklife Documentation Institute (CFDI), sponsored by the N.C. Arts Council, the Center for Documentary Studies and the N.C. Folklife Institute.

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