Berea College
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Berea College 1973-1975 Oral History Project Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.04
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of twenty nine audio cassette recordings of individual interviews, group discussions, and oral presentations that document various aspects of Berea College and community history.There are transcripts for the individual interviews and notes in varying degrees of completeness for the other recordings.The memory time span of the narrators ranges mostly from the 1920s to the early 1970s. The interviews were conducted by various faculty members and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1973-1975
Lucille Cooper Photographic Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.09
Abstract
Lucille Cooper taught Home Economics at Berea College in the 1950s.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1953-1954
Recreation Extension Service
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.45
Abstract
The Recreation Extension Service was formally established in 1937 under the direction of Frank H. Smith with the aim of increasing the appreciation of Appalachian cultural heritage through participation in recreational activities based on traditional folk material. Recreation
Extension services included folk arts programming, the Christmas Country Dance School, the Mountain Folk Festival, the Country Dancers and other recreational campus groups, itineranct recreation services to schools and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1914-1995
Filtered By
- Subject: Folk dancing. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Berea (Ky.) 2
- Folk dancing. 2
- Berea, Kentucky -- Women's Christian Temperance Union 1
- Folk and music festivals. 1
- Folk art -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Folk dancing -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Home economics -- Study and teaching. 1
- Kentucky -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 1
- Mountain Folk Festival. 1
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 1
- Oral history -- Berea College (Ky). 1
- Oral history interview. 1
- Oral history. 1
- Photograph collections. 1
- Rockcastle County (Ky.) -- History. 1 + ∧ less
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