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Jim Adams papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.34
Abstract
Sketches of Jim Adams.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1970
Adaptive Climbers Festival Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0304
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of audio recorded interviews and field recordings of related campfire gatherings, meal times, and climbing activity. They were conducted October 10-12, 2024 by Emily Chen-Newton. The Adaptive Climbers Festival is a gathering of rock climbers with disabilities. Interviewees included climbers, guides, campground hosts and local business owners. 2024 is the third year the event was held in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge.
Persons documented are:
Camron...
Dates:
October 10-12, 2024
Administrative Committee
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.21
Abstract
The Administrative Committee is responsible to the Board of Trustees and the President of the College for matters of finance, physical properties and internal management of the College. Members of the committee oversee all instructional and operating departments of the institution. The very first meeting of the Administrative Committee took place on October 5, 1937 under President Francis S. Hutchins.
Dates:
1937-2005; Other: Majority of material found in 1967-2005
Admissions Committee
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.45
Scope and Contents
Meeting minutes, correspondence, and various materials of the Admissions Committee of Berea College. Collection also contains records of the Inter-School (Joint) Admissions Committee that represented various affiliated schools of Berea College.
Dates:
1923-1967
African and African-American Studies Department
Collection — Container: RG 6 Box 2 Oversized
Identifier: RG 06-6.44
Abstract
Records of the African and African-American Studies Department at Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
Deacon Smith Aftermath of Coal Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0296
Scope and Contents
These are interviews recorded by Bellarmine University student, Deacon Smith in Floyd County, Kentucky during June 2024. The interviews were part of an undergraduate research project that focused on exploring how eastern Kentucky communities have dealt with the transition into a post-coal economy. The project was conducted with support of a Bellarmine University Student Government Undergraduate Research Award and the Kentucky Oral History Commission.
Virginia (Ginger) Blevins ...
Dates:
June 2024
Agriculture and Natural Resources Department
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.11
Abstract
Official records of the Berea College Agriculture and Natural Resources Department.
Dates:
1905-
Aisha Ivey Fiddle Music Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0164 SAA 166
Abstract
Aisha Ivey’s research involves documenting the migration of American old time fiddling from the Appalachian region throughout the southeastern United States. Ivey’s research also focuses on documenting stylistic variables, bowing patterns, repertoire, influences, and learning styles in an effort to understand the dynamics of the tradition's migration.
Ivey played her first fiddle tune at age 10. She continued formal music studies into college and graduate school and has focused on Irish...
Dates:
2012-2013
Alan and Karen Singer Jabbour’s Southeastern Kentucky Cemetery Photographs
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0300
Scope and Contents
These are photographs of southeastern Kentucky cemeteries made in 2008 by Karen Singer Jabbour as part of her and her husband Alan’s research for a book on Decoration Day and allied traditions such as “funeralizing.” The cemeteries are located in Kentucky’s Jackson, Rockcastle, Clay, and Madison Counties. Alan Jabbour’s detailed fieldnotes serve as a guide through the collection. Special features documented in the photographs include gravehouses, false crypts (box crypts), grave covers,...
Dates:
2003
Alan J. Crain Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0113 SAA 113
Abstract
A sociologist by training, Alan J. Crain taught at Allegheny College in western Pennsylvania. During the 1970s, he developed an ongoing interest in southeastern Kentucky through the Appalachian Semester at Union College in Barbourville. This was a summer-long program that introduced students to the culture and traditions of Knox County and the surrounding area. Over a period of about ten years he made extended visits to Knox County, at times living in homes of residents of the Trosper...
Dates:
1975-1982