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Richard Bryant Drake papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.15
Abstract
Papers of Richard (Dick) Bryant Drake.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1948-2001; Other: Majority of material found in 1960-1995; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/2001
East Kentucky Food and Dance Trail Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0262
Abstract
The fourteen oral history interviews in this collection were recorded to contribute to the documentation of combined food and dance gatherings in eastern Kentucky. The interviewing effort is part of the East Kentucky Food and Dance Trail Program at Hindman Settlement School in Hindman, Kentucky.
The Food and Dance Trail Program is directed at highlighting east Kentucky venues that encourage community building, cross-generational...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2017-2018
E.O. Robinson Mountain Fund Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0021 SAA 020
Abstract
The E.O. Robinson Mountain Fund was incorporated June 27, 1922, by Edward O. Robinson, Frederick W. Mowbray, Edward C. O'Rear, and W.H. Hyden. That year Robinson had retired from the presidency of the Mowbray-Robinson Lumber Company in Cincinnati, where he had made a fortune in the World War I lumber boom.
Robinson and Mowbray entered the lumber business in 1908 with the purchase of approximately 16,000 acres of timberland in eastern Kentucky's Breathitt, Knott, and Perry counties. ...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1922-1978
Fifth National Festival of Black Storytelling Collection, 1987
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.06
Scope and Contents
This collection contains video recordings documenting the Fifth National Festival of Black Storytelling held at Berea College, November 12-14, 1987. Features of the event included concurrent storytelling sessions for various ages, the Second National Liars Contest, an informal "Swapping Ground" for storytellers, and scholarly lectures on the status of blacks in Appalachia.Among the fifteen master storytellers participating in the festival were Mary Carter Smith and Linda...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1987
Francis S. Hutchins Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.05
Abstract
Francis Stephenson Hutchins (b. 1902), a native of Northfield, Massachusetts, was educated at Oberlin College (A.B., 1923) and Yale University (M.A., 1933). Having worked in China as an undergraduate, Hutchins returned to China as an instructor in 1925 as part of the Yale-in-China Association's educational mission. Forced to leave China in 1939 during the Japanese invasion, Hutchins was appointed president of Berea College to succeed his father—William J. Hutchins. Hutchins served as...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1924-1979
Frontier Nursing Service collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0015 SAA 014
Abstract
The collection is comprised of correspondence, printed materials, articles, clippings and photographs relating to Kentucky's Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) and its founder, Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965).
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within 1923 - 1988
George Alexander Papers (Hindman Settlement School)
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0150 SAA 151
Abstract
In the summer of 1964, Englishman George Alexander, who had a background in English folk and dance songs and an interest in Anglo-American folklore and song, was invited by Raymond McLain to spend a year in the Kentucky mountains at the Hindman Settlement School in Hindman, Knott County. Staying at Hindman, Alexander would work as an extension specialist visiting a number of rural schools. In 1965, Alexander took a leave of absence from his teaching post in Surrey, to become (as set by the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1916-1979
Gladys Jameson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.28
Abstract
This collection is comprised of manuscripts, correspondence, and related publications of Gladys Jameson, a folk ballad collector and member of the Berea College Music Department from 1916 to 1954.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1920-1980
G.R. Combs Ballad Collection, 1907-1930
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0105 SAA 105
Abstract
Gilbert R. Combs (1886-1966) compiled his collection of songs and ballads in part from those he heard growing up in Eastern Kentucky, and also from his acquaintance with gospel music and spirituals from several southern states. The collection includes some biographical notes covering Combs' early life, and his own recollections of his early childhood and description of traditional songs in mountain settings.
The Rev. Gilbert Reynolds Combs, according to his own account, was born in a cabin...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1907 - 1930; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1989
Harlan County Struggle Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0060 SAA 060
Abstract
Harlan County, Kentucky is known for two things: bituminous coal and Bloody Harlan. During the big coal boom in the early 1900s, Harlan County was amongst the largest contributors. Herndon J. Evans, the editor of the Pineville Sun, argued,
The troubles of the coal industry had their inception in war times. Huge profits were held out to those who had little capital and a good lease. Wages ranged as high as $25 a day in some instances. Men flocked to the coal...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1931-1932