North Carolina 

Society of Historians

Sharp Canupp CD

For every $12 CD we sell, Sharp Canupp will donate $2 to the NCSH; shipping and handling is $3.  Please send a check or money order for $15 to NCSH, Inc., PO Box 93. Sherrills Ford, NC 28673-0093.

"After listening to this CD, I asked myself why wasn't this man FAMOUS?  He wrote the words and music on all 12 toe-tapping, meaningful, soulful songs ... and for someone who has never been a great lover of country-type music .. he has made a convert.  I absolutely loved every song, Cotton Mill Town."  Elizabeth Bray Sherrill

Of himself, Sharp Canupp wrote:

"I was born in the small southern Cotton Mill Town of Cooleemee, in the Piedmont section of North Carolina.  My Great-Grandfather came to the Little Mill Village shortly after the mill and the village were built in the early 1900's.  He came from Cabarrus Co, NC to work in the mill as a young boy barely in his teens.  This is where he met my Grandmother as she had also went to work in the mill as a young girl.  They married in 1912 and lived in the Little mill village until they decided to buy a house of their own in North Cooleemee.  They were the parents of 8 children, and one of them came to be my Father.  My Mother and Father both worked in the Cotton Mill, and my Dad had over 40 years in the mill when it closed in 1969 ... We lived in 4 different mill houses as a family and when the mill sold the houses in 1953, my parents bought one of them .. Both sets of Grandparents and several Aunts and Uncles and almost all of my other relatives worked in the mill, including myself and 2 of my siblings at some time or another ... Some of the fondest memories of my life were in this Little Mill Village as I grew into adulthood ... It was an experience that only someone who had lived in the "family-typr" environment of a Cotton Mill Town could relate to ... I have tried to translate some of the best memories of my "mill-family" into words and song in creating this SC album ... PS .. In the ending of song #2 - "The Old Mill Whistle," you can hear my re-creation of the old whistle as it sounded long ago ... and in song #6, "The Old Mill House," you can still hear the sounds of mill children as they sang and played from the years past .. This CD is dedicated to my family and to all the Cotton Mill Villages and their towns-people of America .... Gerald L. "Sharp" Canupp."

"We have a great state, and much of its story is yet to be told."  Ethel W. Twiford, 16 February 1994."