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MUSIC: Participants at last weekend’s Walker Creek Music Camp, the brainchild of Marshall native Ingrid Noyes, learned or polished their old-time and bluegrass music skills among dozens of staffers who convene twice a year at Walker Creek Ranch.   Susan Adler

The sound of rhythmic stomping poured out of a red barn on Walker Creek Ranch last Sunday afternoon. There was heal-toe clacking and wood-floor pounding, and the commotion grew thunderous as 24 feet traded licks.

Standing in a circle around instructor Rebecca Stout, a dozen students were learning the old-time Appalachian art form of flatfooting. They covered the age spectrum and beamed as they chug-chugged forward before taking two steps back. At one point, a…