Anna Rollins

Center for Cultural Preservation

 

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00:00:00 - Anna Rollins introduces herself and give a brief background

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Partial Transcript: I'm Anna Rollins and my mom helps behind the counter with them, and I just come back to help her.

00:00:08 - Anna explains how long she has been working. 00:00:19 - Anna describes what Mountain Music means to her.

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Partial Transcript: I think it's a great. It's just everybody loves to come here, and they have for 27 years, and I think that it should stay because it really does make people happy.
People really enjoy it.

00:00:41 - Anna explains why is it important to continue mountain music.

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Partial Transcript: I’ve always thought of it as part of our heritage, and it just seems like it shouldn’t go because it’s been here for so long. It just seems like it should be here all the time.

00:00:58 - Anna talks about what the community will lose when Mountain Music closes.

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Partial Transcript: They are going to lose a lot of business; restaurants are going to lose a lot of business. These people here aren’t going to have anything else to do. This is what most of them look forward to all week, is coming here on Friday nights.

00:01:18 - Anna talks about the connection to heritage and culture and what would be lost.

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Partial Transcript: I think kids today would lose the knowledge of what it was like when their grandparents were here because we get a taste of what they listened to a lot and how it was way back then. I think they'll lose that.

00:01:34 - Anna describes what Mountain Music means to her.

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Partial Transcript: This place means the world to me. I haven't been here long, but I've grown, all these people are just like grandparents. And when they aren't here, you're worried about where they're at. I’ve never cared about anybody more than these people.

00:02:02 - Anna talks about the steps taken to save Mountain Music.

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Partial Transcript: We tried just about everything; I tried a petition, and they just laughed at it. We can’t do anything else.