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Loyal Jones Appalachian Center
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.1
Abstract
These are the official records of the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1965 -
Loyal Jones Appalachian Manuscripts Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0127 SAA 127
Abstract
Born in 1928, Loyal Jones grew up on a mountain farm in western North Carolina. He graduated from Hayesville North Carolina High School in 1945, earned an undergraduate degree in English at Berea College in 1954, and received his masters in English (becoming certified to teach) from the University of North Carolina in 1957. Jones served as Director of the Appalachian Center (now the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center) at Berea College from 1970-1993.
Before coming to Berea College as director...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1972-
Loyal Jones Faith and Meaning Interview Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0264
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of interviews, worship services, and radio programs recorded by Loyal Jones as part of the data he gathered in the process of writing Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands published in 1999.
Listen to Interview and / or Church Service Recordings
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1972-1995; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1901
Loyal Jones Rural/Country Comedy Reference Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0135 SAA 135
Abstract
Loyal Jones (1928-) grew up on a farm in western North Carolina. He graduated from Hayesville, North Carolina High School in 1945, earned an undergraduate degree in English at Berea College in 1954, and received his masters in English from the University of North Carolina in 1957. He was the first Director of the Berea College Appalachian Center (now the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center) serving in that capacity from 1970 to 1993.
Jones served in the United States Army and was a public...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1991-2008
Lukas Murphy Bluegrass Music Collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0156 SAA 159
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of bluegrass music performance recordings from the Cincinnati / Dayton, Ohio area, Kentucky, and Virginia, 1973-1980. The recordings were donated to Berea by Lukas Murphy. They were made by his father, Ron Murphy who provided the sound for the events. Venues include bluegrass music festivals, college campus concerts, and bars. These recordings help document the thriving bluegrass music scene that had developed in the industrial region of Cincinnati, Dayton,...
Dates:
Other: 1973-1980
Lyle D. Roelofs papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.09
Abstract
Papers of Dr. Lyle D. Roelofs, ninth President of Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 2012 - 2023
Mabel Martin Wyrick Local History Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0039 SAA 037
Abstract
Mabel Martin Wyrick (1913 – 2003) was a Kentucky writer. Her published books include If Quilts Could Talk... I'd Listen, Tales of the Rails, How to Bury a Drifter, The Ultimate Irony, Factual Folklore, and Land Beneath the Lake.
Wyrick also wrote weekly newspaper columns including "If...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1854 - 1893; Other: Majority of material found in 1854-1893, 1983
May Mahaffey papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.29
Abstract
Papers and items of May Mahaffey.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1928-1929
Mahlon Dickerson Manson Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0236 HC 61
Abstract
Mahlon Dickerson Manson (February 20, 1820 – February 4, 1895) was a druggist, Indiana politician (serving in the Indiana legislature, as a U.S. Congressman, and as Indiana Lieutenant Governor), and a Union general in the American Civil War.
Manson was born in Piqua, Ohio, to David Manson, Jr., and Sarah Cornwall and was a descendant of David Manson (aide to Revolutionary War General George Washington). Manson’s family would later move from Ohio to Crawfordsville, Indiana, and, after...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1845-1900
Man O' War print by R. H. Palenske
File — Container: Map case 1, drawer 14
Identifier: Folder 8
Content Description
Log 9767, Folder 8: Print of R. H. Palenske etching of Man O'War with narrative description sheet
Dates:
1940 - 1970