The obituary says, "In the mid-1960s Professor Coffin was the host of "Lyrics and Legends," a series about folk songs, broadcast nationally on public television." I've never heard of this one. Anyone remember it?

The top Google hit is a current American Public Television show about singer-songwriters that is now in its third season.

There is a reference to it in the notes to Archie Green's article "Hillbilly Music: Source and Symbol", which is freely available online. Referring to a recurring anecdote, Green says, "One "folk" variant by Clarence Ashley has already appeared in an educational film The Roots of Hillbilly Music in the "Lyrics and Legends" series produced in 1962 by WHYT-TV, Philadelphia."

~ Becky in Tucson