Waugh-Quasebarth's "Finding the Singing Spruce" is Weatherford Award Finalist

March 21, 2024

Waugh-Quasebarth's "Finding the Singing Spruce" is Weatherford Award Finalist

Finding the Singing Spruce book cover, which features the wooden front of a musical instrument, alongside text which reads "2023 Weatherford Award Finalist for Best Non-fiction Book About Appalachia"

Congratulations to CFS Director and Archivist Dr. Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth as Weatherford Awards honors his book Finding the Singing Spruce: Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia’s Mountain Forests as a finalist in the "Best Non-Fiction Books About Appalachia" category. Berea College's Weatherford Award honors books in fiction, nonfiction and poetry that “best illuminate the challenges, personalities and unique qualities of the Appalachian South.” To view Waugh-Quasebarth's work among the other honorees, please see Berea College's webpage on the Weatherford Awards here. To purchase Finding the Singing Spruce, click here. You can purchase Finding the Singing Spruce online at the West Virginia University Press website.