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Written from Roadside. The paper also bears a printed letter from George L. Stearns to Morris L. Hallowell about conditions in Nashville, Tennessee (dated 1863-09-19), and a manuscript letter from Morris L. Hallowell to James Mott asking for a charitable contribution. Lucretia Mott tells Martha Wright that her granddaughter Anna Davis Hallowell is on her way to visit Martha in Auburn, New York.

Written by Ethel Bedient Gilbert, director of Publicity and Finance at Fisk University. Discusses the university's shaky financial situation. Praises its music program and credits it with the widespread interest in spirituals despite the department's lack of resources. Discusses Quaker involvement in Fisk.

Written by Ethel Bedient Gilbert, director of Publicity and Finance at Fisk University, to Harriet May Mills, a suffrage activist and friend of Emily Howland. Comments on Howland's long-time financial support of Fisk.

Lemoon is a bridal exchange for her intended husband's sister who on the same day marries her widowed father in Fargo, ND. She is being dressed by the bridegroom's family and veiled with an avri of orange and black silk which she wears when entering her wedding celebration., Katrina Thomas's notes: A Middle Eastern minority populace, inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes parts of Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, Kurds are Sunni Muslims without a stable homeland. Fleeing Iraq, they have sought asylum in the U.S., where a significant number have settled in Nashville, TN. Marriages are arranged and the couple is considered to be married when the mahr is paid, although neither party need be present. My only opportunity to photograph is on a wedding day, when the bride is being prepared to meet her bridegroom for the first time, and after, at the reception, when their guests are dancing and the newlyweds are sitting sit side-by-side on the sidelines. Today these customs are no longer kept, except for the gowand/govand line dancing and some older men wearing traditional headdress on formal occasions. Instead, couples fall in love and are married by a mullah. Depending upon the bridegroom's wealth, the mahr may or may not be paid.

The gowand/govand is a line dance, usually accompanied by a drum/ dulul, and a powerful oboe/ zurna. Dancers link by holding another's little finger. A legendary Kurdish leader once claimed, One who cannot dance is not a Kurd., Katrina Thomas's notes: A Middle Eastern minority populace, inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes parts of Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, Kurds are Sunni Muslims without a stable homeland. Fleeing Iraq, they have sought asylum in the U.S., where a significant number have settled in Nashville, TN. Marriages are arranged and the couple is considered to be married when the mahr is paid, although neither party need be present. My only opportunity to photograph is on a wedding day, when the bride is being prepared to meet her bridegroom for the first time, and after, at the reception, when their guests are dancing and the newlyweds are sitting sit side-by-side on the sidelines. Today these customs are no longer kept, except for the gowand/govand line dancing and some older men wearing traditional headdress on formal occasions. Instead, couples fall in love and are married by a mullah. Depending upon the bridegroom's wealth, the mahr may or may not be paid.

The wedding reception is an opportunity for guests to dance. The bridegroom's father links his little fingers with other men. The newlyweds remain sitting side by side at a table, watching the dancers, until the end when they join the "gowand" for a half-minute., Katrina Thomas's notes: A Middle Eastern minority populace, inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes parts of Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, Kurds are Sunni Muslims without a stable homeland. Fleeing Iraq, they have sought asylum in the U.S., where a significant number have settled in Nashville, TN. Marriages are arranged and the couple is considered to be married when the mahr is paid, although neither party need be present. My only opportunity to photograph is on a wedding day, when the bride is being prepared to meet her bridegroom for the first time, and after, at the reception, when their guests are dancing and the newlyweds are sitting sit side-by-side on the sidelines. Today these customs are no longer kept, except for the gowand/govand line dancing and some older men wearing traditional headdress on formal occasions. Instead, couples fall in love and are married by a mullah. Depending upon the bridegroom's wealth, the mahr may or may not be paid.