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Carr Creek Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0292
Abstract
The Carr Fork dam was constructed by the Louisville District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It is located 8.8 miles above the mouth of Carr Fork, a tributary of the North Fork of the Kentucky River. It was created to mitigate flooding along the North Fork of the Kentucky River, improve water quality, and provide public recreation.
The project was completed in 1976, resulting in a 710-acre reservoir presently called Carr Creek Lake. Many families were displaced during the project’s...
Dates:
2022-2023
Carter G. Woodson Center for Interracial Education
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.57
Abstract
In 2011, the Berea College Board of Trustees authorized the establishment of the Carter G. Woodson Center for Interracial Education. In keeping with the desires of the Board of Trustees and the mission of Berea College founders, it is the goal of the Center to strive to align external campus norms with the College’s internal and historic commitment to interracial education so they function in a mutually supportive manner. It is therefore the mission of the Carter G. Woodson Center for...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2013-
Shelden Mudge Cary papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.32
Abstract
Shelden Cary was a 1921 Berea College graduate who went on to become a professional illustrator and to teach high school art in the Philadelphia area.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1920-1939; Other: Date acquired: 11/01/1994
Cash Gospel Quartet Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0109 SAA 109
Abstract
This collection documents the radio performing career of the Cash Quartet from Rockcastle County, Kentucky during the 1950-1960s. The collection consists of radio program sound recordings, written program song lists, published song books, photographs, and printed personal appearance programs.
The Cash Quartet was formed by Walter Cash (1929- ) around 1956 in the Ottawa community of southern Rockcastle County, Kentucky. Other members were his wife Reba (1937- ); sister, Joanne (1936- ); and...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1959-1961; Other: Date acquired: 08/31/2007
Cassius Marcellus Clay Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0218 HC 02
Abstract
Collection of materials by and about Cassius M. Clay.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1849 - 1975
Catawba Sanatorium Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0097 SAA 097
Abstract
The Catawba Sanatorium, founded in Virginia in 1908, was a public institution for the treatment of tuberculosis. It was known as one of the most organized and best equipped institutions of its kind. W.W. Baker, born October 20, 1844, founded the sanatorium after he experienced the disease himself. He introduced a bill passed by the Virginia General Assembly in 1908 that made the sanatorium a possibility. Apparently many contented patients stayed at Catawba. Visitors commented on the cheerful...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1913-1935
Celebration of Traditional Music
Collection — Container: 6.12 Oversized Posters
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.5
Abstract
Records documenting the Celebration of Traditional Music, an annual event striving to represent homemade music passed on from person to person in the Appalachian Region and the musicians who play it.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1974 -
Celebration of Traditional Music Recordings, 1974-
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.5 R
Abstract
Berea College's Celebration of Traditional Music is an annual event striving to represent homemade music passed on from person to person in the Appalachian Region and the musicians who play it.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1974-2018
Francis and Louise Hutchins Center for International Education (CIE)
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.54
Abstract
Records and materials of the Francis and Louise Hutchins Center for International Education on the Berea College campus.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1956-
Center for Excellence in Learning Through Service (CELTS)
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.55
Abstract
Students For Appalachia was the umbrella organization for many of the programs now referred to as CELTS programs. SFA was one of the oldest community service programs at Berea College; beginning in the mid-1960s, SFA was a community development program designed to help people with the problems of daily life. In 1970, an adult education component was added (STABLE -Student Taught Adult Basic Literacy Effort). In 1972, the two programs merged and the name STABLE was dropped in 1976. Both...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1988-