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Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0130 SAA 130
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of (1) video and audio home recordings, (2) radio programs 1950s - 1970s, and (3) video field recordings, 2008, documenting a wide range of singers and instrumentalist from Whitley, Knox, and McCreary counties, Kentucky and just over the border in Tennessee. Especially notable are performances by fiddlers Claude Harmon and Marion Pridemore, and numerous other local musicians on the Country Music Express radio programs.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950-2008
Collection — Container: 12
Identifier: RG 05-5.05
Abstract
Berea College has always nurtured the spiritual life of its community in a variety of ways. While categorized non-denominational, the school creates an inclusive Christian spirituality that has always promoted social justice in its many forms. During its earliest history, the College provided many opportunities for Christian education and spiritual development, requiring the participation of all students and faculty. Beginning with the founders of the College, several members of the faculty...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1895-
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.06
Abstract
Dr. Willis D. Weatherford, Jr. was the sixth president of Berea College, serving from 1967–1984. Born in western North Carolina in 1916, Weatherford earned his B.A. at Vanderbilt in 1937 and his B.D. from Yale in 1940. Weatherford went on to earn his M.A. (1943) and Ph.D. (1952) in Economics from Harvard and taught economics at Swarthmore from 1948 until 1964. Weatherford became a dean at Carleton College in 1965. In addition to his scholarly work, Weatherford served in Europe and Africa...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1966-1996
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.56
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Willis D. Weatherford, Sr., was president of the Blue Ridge Assembly, Black Mountain, N.C., 1906-1944; president of the Y.M.C.A. Graduate School, Nashville, 1919-1946; trustee of Berea College, Berea, Ky., 1916-ca. 1962; faculty member of Fisk University, 1936-1946; director of the Southern Appalachian Studies Project, 1956-1968; and lifelong student of race relations in the South.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1915-1970
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.16
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Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006) lived all her life near the French Broad River in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. Born in Asheville, Dykeman traced her interest in writing to the stories her parents read aloud to her when she was a child. By the time she was in elementary school, she was making up her own stories, plays, and poems. After graduating from high school and Biltmore Junior College in Asheville, Dykeman attended Northwestern University and received a bachelor’s degree in...
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Other: Majority of material found in 1959-1998
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0141 SAA 141
Abstract
Wilson Reeves (1925-2008) was born in Fleming County, KY and attended Berea College. He was an avid amateur radio operator and collected unique and original recordings, with an extensive library of old-time and mountain music.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970-1983
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0172-SAA 170
Abstract
The collection contains biographical profiles of alumni and founders, written and audio interviews, photographs, yearbooks, audio and video recordings, newspaper and magazine articles, historical essays, books related to the institution, Buckhorn Alumni Association documents and maps of the Buckhorn area.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1900-2013
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0279
Scope and Contents
Assorted personal papers evidencing both Ray and Burdetta Woerth’s experiences as Berea College students c1933-c1938, and their subsequent marriage in 1938. The items mainly concern on-campus student activities, lifestyle, engagement and marriage announcement, and later participation in Berea College class reunions 1982 and 1987.
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circa 1932-Sep 2001
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0188 HC 13
Scope and Contents
Records include a single ledger used to record minutes of the Chapter from its organization in November, 1890, through December, 1902. Included are a copy of the Chapter constitution (1891), membership and attendance records, and meeting minutes. Minutes detail election of officers, meeting programs, reports, topics of discussion, and financial affairs of the Chapter. The collection also contains miscellaneous items such as a “Temperance Fan,” letter promoting prohibition and an issue of...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1890-1902
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.50
Abstract
Records of the Berea College Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Formerly: Women's and Gender Studies Program.
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Other: Majority of material found in 1990-
