Violet Hensley with "Homecoming" Fiddle

On April 3, 2018, Violet Brumley Hensley (right) and her family celebrated a “homecoming” for the third fiddle Hensley ever crafted, a child-sized fiddle she had made for her friend Luda Driggers in the early 1930s (she received a quilt in return). It was returned by Driggers’s granddaughter Judy Gillemand (left), who had inherited the fiddle and later learned that it was made by Hensley.

Old white woman with glasses holding a tiny fiddle next to white woman in glasses and blue shirt

Courtesy of Beverly Cothran

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