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Article: Keeping a Sweet Dream Alive; Patsy Cline Fans in Winchester Struggle to Honor Once-Scorned Local Gal
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- The Washington Post
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- April 30, 2005
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A lot of people in Ginny Hensley's staid and upright home town
regarded her as plain hillbilly trash back when she was poor and
coming of age here in the Shenandoah Valley. This was just after
World War II and into the 1950s, when she'd sing in any beer dive
with a stage, when she worked regional radio and the Moose lodge
circuit and boasted she'd get to Nashville.
Her betters liked to gossip what a hussy that young Virginia
Hensley was, going around right in front of folks with her ruby
lipstick and her short pants, crawling under the covers with this one
and that one. . . .
"For instance, she would go to our drive-in theater and try to
perform," says Judy Sue Kempf, 60, a tour guide. "She ...