My “Boot Scootin’ History” exhibition at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Bristol, Virginia is over, and I picked up all the exhibition boots and materials when I was in Nashville. Of all the things I brought safely home — expensive and irreplaceable boots and memorabilia — it is these two pieces that I’m most happy to be reunited with. The booklet is the liner notes from the Bear Family Louvin Brothers boxed set and it’s signed to me by Charlie Louvin. The piece of leather is the original piece that I sewed the day I went to Jay Griffith’s boot shop and applied for a job stitching tops.