Hindman Settlement School.
Organization
Found in 3 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
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
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