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Joyce Hannan Berea Community Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0259
Scope and Contents
Thirty-one oral history interviews with Berea residents recorded by Joyce Hannan mostly during 1978 in connection with the Country's 200th birthday celebration. Also included is a 1983 WEKU radio program that included Berea and other Madison County residents discussing the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Persons interviewed are Luther A. Ambrose,
Mrs Perly Ayer,
Wayne Balinger,
Gary Barker,
Ellen Evans,
Sidney Farr,
Duffy Ford,
Clinton C. Hensley,
Rolf Hovey,
Francis...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1978; Other: Date acquired: 06/24/1994
Louis C. Karpinski collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.29
Abstract
Collection of materials pertaining to the scholarly work of Louis C. Karpinski.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1906-1940
Katherine Jackson French Ballad Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0005-SAA 004
Abstract
Katherine Jackson French was influenced to collect mountain ballads through friends who had attended a lecture—in 1905—at which two instructors from Berea College, Kentucky, spoke about the uncollected ballads in the mountains of Kentucky. She was writing her dissertation at Columbia University at the time and she delayed investigating the matter of collecting mountain ballads until 1909 when she returned to London, Kentucky, to attend her mother who was ill. On at least two occasions in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1909-1916
Douglas C. Kelley collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.15
Abstract
Materials documenting the work of Dr. Douglas Kelley, Berea College graduate.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1947-2012
Kentucky Child Welfare Research Foundation - Rural Child Care Project Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0261
Abstract
The Kentucky Child Welfare Research Foundation’s Rural Child Care Project provided services to meet the growth and development needs of economically and educationally disadvantaged children and their families in ten Appalachian counties of Eastern Kentucky. Major objectives of the program included providing a combination of casework, homemaking, and day care services to aid the intellectual growth and development of children in Appalachian Kentucky.
Records in this collection were donated...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1967-1971
Kentucky Day Law and Berea College
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: RG 13-13.06
Abstract
The Day Law, "An Act to Prohibit White and Colored Persons from Attending the Same School," was signed into law in the Commonwealth of Kentucky by Governor J.C.W. Beckham in March 1904. The law effectively forced Berea College, the only integrated college in Kentucky, to segregate.
As the bill was being debated in the Kentucky House of Representatives Committee on Education, two groups came to Frankfort to lobby the legislators. One group was led...
Dates:
1904 - 2005
Kentucky Foothills Square Dance Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0268
Abstract
Interviews recorded by Susan Spalding documenting the history of square dancing in Berea and surrounding counties. Also included are selected audio and video excerpts of local dance groups and callers.
The dancing is the type done in a big circle that divides into smaller “squares” of two couples. Listen to Interview...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2014; Other: Majority of material found in 2014; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1901
Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0178
Abstract
The Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen (KGAC, also referred to as the Guild) is the oldest statewide visual art and craft organization in Kentucky. The KGAC has introduced thousands of people across Kentucky to the world of art and fine craft and has been leader in the national art and craft movement—especially active in promoting national awareness from the 1960s through the 1970s. The KGAC Art & Craft Fairs, started in the early 1960s, are an integral part of the organization’s...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1964-2001
Kentucky Heartwood Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0313
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of 10 interviews with individuals who have been connected to the Berea based forest watch group Kentucky Heartwood, which has been working to protect the environmental integrity of public land in Kentucky since 1991. The interviews were recorded by Mahala King with support from the Kentucky Oral History Commission.Persons interviewed are:
Jim Bensman
Joe Childers
Tina Marie Camp-Scheff
Perrin Delong
Andy Mahler
Cony...
Dates:
March through September, 2024
Kentucky River Folklife Project
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0125 SAA 125
Scope and Contents
One hundred fifty-one audio recorded interviews and detailed content summaries (not transcripts) documenting the economic and social conditions of people who have lived or worked on the Kentucky River.
Listen To Available Interview Recordings / Read Interview Summaries
The interviews were recorded by Berea College...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1989-1990