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Photograph of Gilbert Dove and Hazel Petrey decorating the back wall with pine-baugh, rhododendron, and mountain laurel for their wedding. In the image, Dove is placing the plants a long the wall while Petrey sits on a pew pulling branches apart. Narrative by Junebug Clark: More images and information can be found in the July 28, 1941 issue of Life Magazine, pages 82-85 in the story “Life Magazine Goes to a Kentucky Wedding.” Also in the Joe Clark, HBSS book “Country Wedding," published in 1974. Additionally a 1982 photo of Hazel and Gilbert can be found in Joe’s Tennessee Scrapbook. All are in this Clark Family Collection.

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