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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...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1972-
Summer Puppetry Caravan for Appalachia Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 11-11.03
Abstract
A Summer Puppetry Caravan for Appalachia was created by director Neil di Teresa, professor of art at Berea College, in 1969. Initially funded by Berea College and the Rockefeller Foundation, the Caravan received additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kentucky Arts Commission, the Kentucky Humanities Council, and other private organizations. The aim of the Caravan was “to involv[e] Appalachians in Cultural and creative activities, to develo[p] a sense of rapport...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970 - 1993; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2009
Urban Appalachian Council Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0151 SAA 160
Abstract
Papers of the Urban Appalachian Council (UAC), Cincinnati, OH, 1974-2014
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-2012; Other: Majority of material found in 1967-1994; Other: Date acquired: 06/11/2010
William J. Hutchins Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.04
Abstract
Hutchins, born in 1850 and native of Brooklyn, New York, attended Oberlin College, Yale University, and Oberlin Theological Seminary. In 1896 he graduated from Union Theological Seminary and was ordained a Presbyterian minister, receiving his first pastorate at Bedford Church in Brooklyn. Later that same year,Hutchins married Anna Laura Murch of Cleveland (whom he had met at Oberlin).
In 1907, Hutchins was appointed professor of homiletics in the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology. On...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1850 - 1977; Other: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1958