Scope and Contents
This oral history collection consists of interviews (mostly during 1996) with eighteen elder (over 65) Appalachians about their recollections of the forest in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. While the interviews focus on their experience of the forests, their stories also intersect with other aspects of their experience and contributions such as music and art.
Interviewees:
Giles Rainey
Minnie Yancey
Zan White
Ernest Kinnaird
William...
Papers of Dr. Warren Dean Lambert as related to his prolific study of the Battle of Richmond and the writing of his book When the Ripe Pears Fell, the only full-length historical monograph on the Battle of Richmond.
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...
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The collection is comprised of audio recorded interviews conducted by Berea College students as part of a January 1973 short term History 190 course taught by Dr. Richard Drake.
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Interviewees Are:
Bethel Cornette Interview re: Moonshining January 1973
Bill Woods Interview re:...
Abstract
The Berea Interfaith Task Force for Peace was founded in 1981 as a grassroots organization of volunteers from various faith traditions sharing a commitment to peacemaking and social justice issues. To this end, the group has focused its peacemaking efforts on the problems of the nuclear arms race, conflicts in Central America, and the local problem of nerve gas stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Madison County. The group also organized the Mountain Refugee Project in the late 1980’s...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1976-1983
The Berea League was established in 1938 and is affiliated with the League of Women Voters of Kentucky and the National League of Women Voters. Its general purpose is to promote political responsibility through informed and active participation of citizens in government.
A collection of materials documenting the history of blacks at Berea College as well as race relations at the College. Materials include clippings, notes, writings, correspondence, College memorandum and notices, and other.
Abstract
Joseph T. Gray worked with Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky, making documentaries, until he decided to work independently. While living in Somerset, Kentucky, he sought funding to produce a documentary on the question of how to dispose of deteriorating chemical weapons stored at the Army's Bluegrass Depot in Madison County, Kentucky. Although he followed the hearings and shot raw footage of interviews, etc., he never received the funding he needed to edit and produce a documentary on the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970-1993; Other: Majority of material found in 1985-1991; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1993