HONORING JIMMIE RODGERS

Published 6:00 am Friday, May 27, 2011

Above, Mary Elsie McWilliams Fulcher, center, great niece of Jimmie Rodgers, Jillian Snodgrass, left, and her sister, Emily, great great great nieces, pose after unveiling the wreath at Rodgers' gravesite Thursday at the Oak Grove Cemetery. At left, Britt Gully performs some of Jimmie Rodgers' songs as he impersonates the Blue Yodeler during a trail marker unveiling Thursday honoring the "Coming of Age of Country Music." A Greg Cartmell painting of Rodgers marked the site at Dumont Plaza of the trail marker which arrived later that afternoon.

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