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Appalachian Oral History Collection (1973 Fall Term)
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0059 SAA 059
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of twenty-one audio cassette recordings of interviews, informal discussions, musical performances, and commentary recorded by Berea College students under the direction of history professor, Richard B. Drake, during the 1973 fall semester.Subject areas include Pine Mountain Settlement School, John C. Campbell Folk School, the Christian Appalachian Project, the Civilian Conservation Corps in Pike County, Kentucky, and Berea College's Christmas Country Dance...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1972-1973
Appalachian Photographic Archives
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0070 SAA 070
Scope and Contents
Black and white photographic prints of various sizes, some with dates and/or notations, preserved for their relevance to Appalachia.
Note: A small number of the images are dated. Otherwise dates are approximate or no date is given.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1898-1965
Appalachian Presbyterians Survey Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0017 SAA 016
Abstract
The Appalachian Presbyterians Survey was commissioned by two denominations: the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America and the Presbyterian Church in the United States. It was conducted by Hart M. Nelsen of the Western Kentucky University's Department of Sociology.
The survey sample consisted of eighteen separate congregations in five Appalachian states—Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. However, data collected in North Carolina is not...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1966-1968; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1974
Appalachian Religion Survey Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0036 SAA 034
Abstract
The 1931-1933 Appalachian regional religion survey was conducted in connection with a broader economic and social study of the region undertaken by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Survey results were published in the books, Religion in the Highlands: Native Churches and Missionary Enterprises in the Southern Appalachians (1933) by Elizabeth R. Hooker, and Economic and Social Problems and Conditions of the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1931-1933
Appalachian South Folklife Festival Recordings 1979
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0269
Abstract
Musical performances recorded on audio cassettes at the Appalachian South Folklife Festival (Pipestem, West Virginia, July 20, 1979) by Don Wade and Steve Green.
Listen To Recordings
Performers include George Tucker; Ebb and Zeb Collins; Edward Mashburn; Elvie Johnson; Ira Mullins; John Morris; Wilson Douglas;...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1979 - 1979
Appalachian Studies Association Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0029 SAA 028
Abstract
The Appalachian Studies Association was formed in 1977 by a group of scholars, teachers, and regional activists who believed that shared community has been and will continue to be important to those writing, researching, and teaching about Appalachia. First known as the Appalachian Studies Conference, the official name became Appalachian Studies Association in 1984. The Association began to publish The Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association in 1989,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1977-
Appalachian Studies Program
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.2
Abstract
Official records documenting the Appalachian Studies Program at Berea College from 1959 through 1993.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1959-1993
Appalachian Studies/Center Committee
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.19
Abstract
The Appalachian Studies/Center Committee, also known as the Committee to Review the Appalachian Commitment, was appointed in 1987 by President John Stephenson to advise on matters relating to the activities of the Appalachian Center and the Appalachian academic program at Berea. The committee, however, was also charged with the task of conducting a comprehensive review of Berea's Appalachian commitment with a view to making recommendations that would become part of the long-range planning...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1987-1989
Appalachian Vertical Files
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0252
Abstract
This collection of materials with different provenance was assembled and organized by Hutchins Library and Special Collections staff. The collection contains a variety of materials on a number of subjects and documents the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1968-2000
Appalachian Volunteers Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0040 SAA 039
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of sixteen audio recordings and unedited transcripts (of six of the interviews) with former Appalachian Volunteer workers who were assigned to West Virginia, between 1964 and 1967, and then settled in the area after their service ended.These interviews were recorded by Marie Tyler McGraw during the summer of 1982 with the support of an Appalachian Studies Fellowship from the Berea College Appalachian Center. McGraw's article based on this research...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1982