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Loyal Jones Retirement Symposium Audio and Video Recordings
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0326
Scope and Contents
These audio and video recordings document the various events that occurred as part of a Symposium at Berea College November 12th and 13th, 1993 honoring Loyal Jones’ many years of service teaching and as Director of Berea’s Appalachian Center. John Stephenson, Richard Drake, Helen Lewis, Jean Speer and Ron Eller talked about the state of Appalachian studies. Music was provided by Billy Edd Wheeler, Homer Ledford, Betty Smith and Jean Ritchie. Several readers read selections from...
Dates:
November 11-12, 1993
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
Map of Berea College and vicinity, Berea, Kentucky
Item — Container: Map case 1, drawer 4, Folder: 9268
Identifier: 9268
Content Description
Map of Berea College and vicinity showing the Fee House, Fee Marker, and first school house. Red and black ink. Scale 1:3600. Cartography by J. Knox Singleton and Robert E. Adams.
Dates:
Circa 1930s
Maps of Westmorland and Cumberland Counties, England, by Richard Blome
File — Container: Map Case 1, Drawer 10
Identifier: 10-7
Scope and Contents
Two maps printed in 1673: Westmorland County and Cumberland County, England. Hand colored details. Inventory number: 10-7. A pencil inscription on the back of each states: "From Miss Eunice True - April 1968."
Dates:
1673