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1 of 2 Dancing, strumming and singing are all in her bailiwick, in an effort to preserve Appalachian culture and educate others about it, whether they are Appalachian or those barely aware of the region. Carla Gover, a Letcher County native, said she learned much of her subject simply by living it. Her musical family exposed her to hymn and ballads and there was singing at family reunions and other celebrations, funerals and even during work in the garden or the kitchen. An eighth-generation Kentuckian, Gover said many of her family played string instruments, but her grandmother’s religion — Holiness — didn’t allow dancing.