Stan Olah is a chief of police, a farmer and nurseryman, and a budding violin maker. He’s enthusiastic about all his jobs, but he’ll talk your ears off about fiddles (and since he’s a cop, you’ll like it). He turns to George Fortune for fiddle advice and good stories, and he’s a good storyteller himself.
▪ bio current as of 1998
1998
AL#53 p.44 BRB5 p.178
John Calkin George Fortune-Jr. Stan Olah
▪ Fortune is a self-taught fiddle maker and instrument repairman in rural Virginia. To many of his neighbors he is known simply as the Fiddle Man. Perhaps Americans aren’t losing their independent spirit, but often it feels like it. Calkin pays tribute to a man who seems to represent a whole way of life. With 7 photos.