American Experience1988

Closing Crawl:
Sara and Maybelle reunited briefly during the folk revival movement of the 1960's. Maybelle Carter died in 1978. She is buried outside of Nashville Tennessee. Sara Carter Bays died in 1979. She is buried in Poor Valley, Virginia. Hundreds of people from all over the world visit the Carter Fold and A.P. Carter's grave every weekend. The songs that earned only a few hundred dollars a year in royalties at the time of A.P.'s death are now among the most valuable copyrights in all American music.