Join author and John and Anne Fischer Professor in the Fine Arts in Music, Lydia Hamessley, to launch her newest book!
Lydia R. Hamessley is the author of Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton (2020) and Dolly Parton's Jolene (2025). She is the John and Anne Fischer Professor in the Fine Arts in Music at Hamilton College (Clinton, NY) where she teaches courses in country music, medieval and Renaissance music, music in film, and world music. She received her Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Minnesota in 1989 and has won two teaching awards at Hamilton. She writes on old-time and bluegrass music, with an emphasis on women and Southern Appalachia. She has also written about the banjo in nineteenth-century America, Appalachian murder ballads, and Peggy Seeger. She appeared in the BBC2 documentary Dolly Parton: Here I Am. She is also a clawhammer banjo player.
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From Utica take 12B south to Clinton. College Street extends from red light at the village square to Hamilton College. The Library is in the third block from the square, on the left, directly opposite Elm Street.
