Ballad Singer Bobby McMillon at the North Asheville Library

Come see folklorist Bobby McMillon perform “The Ballad of Frankie Silver” and other stories at North Asheville Library. McMillon is a North Carolina Folk Heritage Award recipient and a relative of the Silver family who grew up immersed in WNC folklore, listening to “booger tales, haint tales,” and legends about the murder of his relative Charlie Silver. “The real storytelling,” Bobby says, “was so intertwined that a bear tale or a fish tale or a witch tale or the tale of some history that had really happened–a family tale–they were all equally believable.”