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Edward Henry (E. H.) Fairchild papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.01
Abstract
official and personal papers of Berea College's first president, Edward Henry Fairchild.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1860-1973
Maureen Faulkner papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.21
Abstract
Personal papers of Maureen Faulkner, professor of English at Berea College (1942-1972).
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1940-1979
Federal Music Project - Eastern Kentucky Folk Song Project
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0121 SAA 121
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 131 song lyrics and tune transcriptions of songs, ballads, hymns, and fiddle tunes collected in about 1936 by Federal Music Project workers in Boyd, Floyd, and Rowan Counties in eastern Kentucky. In a few instances there are either lyrics without musical transcriptions or transcriptions without lyrics.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1936-1936
Fellowship House Day Camp Oral History Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0260
Abstract
This collection consists of oral history interviews that document a project that came to be called the Fellowship House Day Camp, a racially integrated day camp in Knoxville, Tennessee held every summer from 1950 until 1972.
Those interviewed include former campers as well as parents and others who were involved in the project’s development and ongoing operation. The interviews were recorded during 2014 and 2015 by Mary Beth Bingman with support of the Berea College Sound Archives...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1950-2014
Fellowship of Reconciliation - Berea Chapter Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0198 HC 23
Abstract
These are the records of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Berea Chapter, founded in 1936.
The Fellowship of Reconciliation (F.O.R.) was founded in Cambridge, England in 1914, and an American organization was established the following year. Its purposes were to oppose war and violence in international relations and to promote alternative means of reducing tension among nations and peoples.
A chapter was organized in Berea in 1936 with Willis Fisher as chairperson. The group was active...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1936-1955
Field Study and Cooperative Learning Programs
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.47
Abstract
Records of the Field Study Program and programs related to cooperative and service learning in the academic setting. The office is now the Office of Internships and Career Development.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1979-1990
Fifth National Festival of Black Storytelling Collection, 1987
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.06
Scope and Contents
This collection contains video recordings documenting the Fifth National Festival of Black Storytelling held at Berea College, November 12-14, 1987. Features of the event included concurrent storytelling sessions for various ages, the Second National Liars Contest, an informal "Swapping Ground" for storytellers, and scholarly lectures on the status of blacks in Appalachia.Among the fifteen master storytellers participating in the festival were Mary Carter Smith and Linda...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1987
First Annual Renfro Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0297
Scope and Contents
First Annual Renfro Valley Old Time Fiddler's Convention, June 11-13, 1971. (There were also Guitar and Band competitions.) Sunday morning of the third day, June 13th, included a show by Roy Acuff and the Smokey Mountain Boys. During the show, Roy Acuff talks with John Lair and Glen Pennington about country music and Renfro Valley history.CONTESTANTS:
Bob Baker,
Jesse Baker,
Ray Brown,
Wally Bryson,
Charlie Collins,
Charles A. Corns,
Cumberland Mountain Boys,
Sam Davis,
Jack...
Dates:
June 11, 12, and 13 1971
Florence Ridgeway Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.39
Abstract
Born in 1876, Florence Ridgeway attended Berea College from 1905-1907 before obtaining a degree from the Western Reserve University of Library Science in 1909. Upon receiving her library science degree, she returned to Berea where she worked as an assistant librarian at the Berea College library for over twenty-three years. She was a pioneer in librarianship working with others to compile Berea's "Mountain Collection" (the first of its kind in the United States) and instituting Kentucky's...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1919-1929