The late Ms. Starr was the niece of Alfred Starr, Edmondson’s most important patron. She met William Edmondson at his home and workshop in when she was a teen in…

The late Mr. Overton, a Nashville-area native, was a college student at Tennessee A & I College (now Tennessee State University) in the 1940’s. He lived in the the same…

As a nine year old boy, he met William Edmondson when his parents traveled to Nashville from New Jersey, specifically to purchase several pieces directly from the artist. Those pieces,…