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Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0050 SAA 050
Abstract
Hinton Rural Life Center is named in memory of Georgia Businessman, Harold Hopkins Hinton. Mr. Hinton and his wife Alice had started building a hunting lodge on the hill above their summer home in the North Carolina mountains in 1956 but his unexpected death brought the project to a standstill. The land was sold to Walter and Velma Moore, who donated the partially finished lodge and four acres of land to the Clay County Methodist Church in 1957. With the help of Alice Hinton and others, the...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1958-1985
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.24
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Papers of Noah C. Hirschy (1867-1925).
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Other: Majority of material found in circa 1920-1929
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0210-HC 35
Scope and Contents
The Historic Newspaper Collection currently includes more than 450 issues of papers from 72 individual newspaper titles published in the United States from 1770 to 1970. The collection primarily includes newspapers printed in the 1850’s and 1860’s, during World War I and World War II, and during times of significant world events.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1770 - 1970
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.15
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Histories of Berea College, including a few personal accounts, written by various individuals including many who worked or studied at the College.
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Other: Majority of material found in 1853-2002
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.24
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Records of the History and Political Science Department of Berea College.
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Other: Majority of material found in 1936-2004
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.25
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The papers of Edwin Michael Hoffman.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1920-1982
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0124 SAA 124
Abstract
Homer C. Ledford was an instrument maker and bluegrass musician from Winchester, Kentucky who specialized in making dulcimers, banjos, and mandolins.
He was born in Alpine, Tennessee, where he started building instruments at an early age. At age eighteen he became a student at John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina and eventually went on to Berea College, and what is now Eastern Kentucky University where he graduated in 1954.
Ledford taught industrial arts at George...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1988-1997
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.47
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The Horizon Committee, created in 1987, continued the work and processes of the Long-Range Planning Committee. The committee served an advisoree role to the Berea College president.
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1987-1990
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.26
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Personal papers and records of Rolf Hovey, founder and director of the Berea College Chapel Choir and longtime Chairman of the Berea College Music Department. Materials include writings, correspondence, teaching materials, student projects, and numerous subject files including information regarding Berea College organizations and groups.
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Other: Majority of material found within 1950-1979
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0102 SAA 102
Scope and Contents
This collection contains research notes made by Howard Dorgan as he visited Old Regular Baptist churches in Kentucky and Virginia between 1986 and 1987. Dorgan was invited to do this work by Darvin and Gaynell Marshall who study the mountain culture of southwest Virginia. This work was partially funded by an Appalachian Studies Fellowship Grant awarded by the Appalachian Center at Berea College. Howard Dorgan, at the time of the research, was from the Department of Communication Arts at...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1986-1987
