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Jesse Stuart Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0013 SAA 012
Abstract
Jesse Stuart—a much celebrated and beloved Appalachian writer—was born in Greenup County, on August 8, 1907. He lived with his wife, Naomi Deane, near Greenup on a tract of land that includes the old tenant farmhouse once rented by his family during his childhood. His one child, Jane Stuart, is also an author.
Stuart started writing about life in Appalachia when he was a young boy. He is known for a sensitive portrayal of the Appalachian highlander as a neighbor, relative, and friend....
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1933-1983
Willard Rouse Jillson papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0020-SAA 019
Abstract
Papers and records of Willard Rouse Jillson (1890-1975) who served as Kentucky State Geologist from 1919 to 1932.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1898-1978
Jim Smoak Banjo Music Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0163 SAA 165
Abstract
Growing up in low country South Carolina in the 1930s and 1940s, Jim Smoak immersed himself in the music of his family and of the live radio broadcasts to which they listened. Smoak especially admired the innovative banjo playing of Snuffy Jenkins, whom he heard daily on Columbia’s WIS Station. Jenkins would become a family friend and mentor, inspiring Smoak to pursue work as a banjo player. Smoak would become one of the first generation of banjo players to bring three-finger style to...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1963-2012
J.O. Van Hook Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.51
Abstract
Joseph O. Van Hook was raised in Pulaski County, Kentucky and began teaching in a one-room school house in 1909. He came to Berea in 1910 and earned two diplomas from the Normal School. He served as an Army corporal during World War I and spent four years following the war teaching in China at the Shanghai American School (1921-1925). He then returned to Berea College, earning three Bachelor of Arts degrees by 1926. He also earned a Master of Arts degree from the University of Kentucky in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1855 - 1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1958
Jo Zingg / Jeanette Knowles Appalachian Volunteers Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0166 SAA 168
Abstract
The project was initiated by Jo Crockett Zingg with the purpose of documenting key figures in the Appalachian Volunteers organization who had not been interviewed as part of previous oral history efforts. Zingg recorded eleven of the interviews over an approximate two year period, 2008 - 2010. Former AV worker Jeanette Knowles continued the project after Jo Zingg's death in 2012. Additional interviews were recorded at various times by historian Tom Kiffmeyer, Women's History scholar Jesse...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2008-2015
Joe Samuel Barker Autograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0187 HC 12
Abstract
Joe Samuel Barker graduated from the Foundation School in 1950 and attended Berea College (1950-1953, 1961). Barker served in the U.S. Army in Japan and Korea and would go on to, amongst other things, work for the State Department, teach at the Friendsville Academy, and be self-employed. Materials in this collection consist of autographed letters written to Barker (approximately 200 items), many of which relate to a project he undertook to elicit the principal concerns of prominent American...
Dates:
circa 1800 - 1970
John and Frances Reedy Early Country Music Collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0317
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the musical career of early bluegrass musicians John and Frances Reedy from Harlan County, Kentucky. Materials include:
Clippings, photos, and other print material
Home tape recordings and play lists
Reedy commercial disc and 8-Track recordings
Other performers' commercial disc recordings
Located in Archives Stacks [Range: 7, Section: N, Shelf: 6]
Dates:
1940-1960
John C. Campbell Folk School Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0025 SAA 024
Abstract
Focusing on adult education, founders, Olive Dame Campbell and Marguerite Butler (later Bidstrup) modeled the John C. Campbell Folk School's program on the folk schools of Denmark. The school was named in honor of Olive's late husband John C. Campbell, who had envisioned the Danish approach as an effective means of educating young adults to become productive citizens who would stay in the mountains instead of moving away to urban areas.
Starting with an old farmhouse and a log barn, the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1909-1981
John C. Campbell Folk School Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0047 SAA 047
Abstract
The John C. Campbell Folk School was founded at Brasstown, North Carolina in 1925 by Olive Dame Campbell to further the educational and social vision of her late husband, John C. Campbell. Starting with an old farmhouse and a log barn, it rapidly expanded to include a farm, dairy, forestry program, forge, and a crafts and recreation program. Based on the Danish approach of linking the culture of work with that of books, its purpose was to build and enrich rural life through adult...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1923 - 1985
John F. Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.46
Abstract
John Franklin Smith taught in both the Berea College Academy School and the Normal School from 1911 to 1931. Originally drawn to Berea to teach Rural Social Science, Smith also served as a publicity agent for serveral years and directed the College Sunday School for fifteen years. Smith was a prolific writer, including a poet. Smith retired from Berea in 1931 due to illness.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1920-1931