When was father of the Carter Family born?
Sunny Side of Life Sunny Side of Life is a 1985 documentary film about the musical Carter Family focusing on the children of A.P and Sara who still live in the mountains and are trying to keep the legacy of their ancestors alive, at the Carter Fold near Maces Spring, Virginia. It includes interviews with the clan including a small snippet with June Carter Cash. The title is based upon the early Carter Family hit recording, "Keep On the Sunny Side" (1928).
Charles Howard Carter Charles Howard Carter (1927-1990) was professor of History at Tulane University from 1963 to 1990. He studied at Columbia University under Garrett Mattingly, whose Festschrift he later edited. He graduated B.S. (1957), M.A. (1958), and Ph.D. (1961). He instigated a project to microfilm diplomatic documents from Western Europe for the period 1590-1635 which provided shared access to materials from the British Library, the Public Record Office, the National Archives of Belgium, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Biblioteca Nacional de España and the Archivo General de Simancas.