Hindman Settlement School.
Organization
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
East Kentucky Food and Dance Trail Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0262
Abstract
The fourteen oral history interviews in this collection were recorded to contribute to the documentation of combined food and dance gatherings in eastern Kentucky. The interviewing effort is part of the East Kentucky Food and Dance Trail Program at Hindman Settlement School in Hindman, Kentucky.
The Food and Dance Trail Program is directed at highlighting east Kentucky venues that encourage community building, cross-generational...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2017-2018
George Alexander Papers (Hindman Settlement School)
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0150 SAA 151
Abstract
In the summer of 1964, Englishman George Alexander, who had a background in English folk and dance songs and an interest in Anglo-American folklore and song, was invited by Raymond McLain to spend a year in the Kentucky mountains at the Hindman Settlement School in Hindman, Knott County. Staying at Hindman, Alexander would work as an extension specialist visiting a number of rural schools. In 1965, Alexander took a leave of absence from his teaching post in Surrey, to become (as set by the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1916-1979
Henrietta Child Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0185 HC 10
Abstract
Henrietta Child (1867-1968) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Harvard philologist and folklorist Francis James Child. After the death of her mother in 1911, Child moved to Kentucky to practice philanthropic teaching and storytelling. Her first year in the state was spent at Hindman Settlement School; around 1916, she moved permanently to Berea. During the next forty years she made monthly trips to schools within a ten mile radius of Berea where she told stories and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1897-1977
Hindman Settlement School Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0010 SAA 009
Abstract
Collection of materials of the Hindman Settlement School (Hindman, Ky)
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1899-1977
Hindman Settlement School Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0041 SAA 041
Abstract
Hindman Settlement School traces its origins to education – recreation programs conducted in Knott and Perry counties, Kentucky by Katherine Pettit and May Stone during the summers of 1899-1901. They were funded by the Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs and were aided by a group of women from urban areas. Programs were held in Hazard-1899 (Camp Cedar Grove), Hindman-1900 (Camp Industrial), and Sassafras in Knott County-1901. Working in large tents, they offered classes in sewing, cooking,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1899-1979
Katherine Pettit Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0012 SAA 011
Abstract
Papers and records of Katherine Pettit.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1899-1937
Mary Wheeler Ballad Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0076 SAA 076
Abstract
Born in 1892 in Paducah, Kentucky, Ms. Wheeler was the daughter of a well-known attorney. It was part of a young society woman's education to be trained in music, but Ms. Wheeler took this training and made it her life’s work. She is best known for two books she authored: Kentucky Mountain Folk Songs (1937) and Roustabout Songs: A Collection of Ohio River Valley...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1917-1982
McLain Family Band Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0086 SAA 086
Abstract
The McLain Family Band came to be as the result of an interest in Bluegrass music developed by Raymond K. McLain (1928-2003) while Director of Hindman Settlement School in Knott County, Kentucky where he had moved in 1954 with his wife, Betty. This interest owed much to both family influence and formal academic training. McLain’s mother had been director of Southern Folk Life Studies at the University of Alabama. He had majored in music theory at Denison University and done graduate work...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968-1989; Other: Date acquired: 12/14/2001
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Education, Rural -- Kentucky. 3
- Knott County (Ky.) -- History. 3
- Rural schools -- Kentucky -- History. 3
- Appalachian Region. 1
- Appalachian dance. 1
- Ballads, English -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Ballads, English -- Kentucky. 1
- Bluegrass festivals -- Kentucky. 1
- Bluegrass music -- Kentucky. 1
- Country music. 1
- Education -- Kentucky -- Harlan County 1
- Education -- Kentucky. 1
- Folk dancing -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Folk dancing -- Kentucky. 1
- Folk music -- Kentucky. 1
- Folk songs, English -- England. 1
- Folk songs, English -- Kentucky. 1
- Food habits. 1
- Harlan County (Ky.) -- History. 1
- Kentucky Blue (Radio Program). 1
- Music -- Economic aspects. 1
- Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) 1
- Square dancing -- Kentucky 1 + ∧ less
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