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Jo Zingg / Jeanette Knowles Appalachian Volunteers Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0166 SAA 168
Abstract
The project was initiated by Jo Crockett Zingg with the purpose of documenting key figures in the Appalachian Volunteers organization who had not been interviewed as part of previous oral history efforts. Zingg recorded eleven of the interviews over an approximate two year period, 2008 - 2010. Former AV worker Jeanette Knowles continued the project after Jo Zingg's death in 2012. Additional interviews were recorded at various times by historian Tom Kiffmeyer, Women's History scholar Jesse...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2008-2015
John Bell Stephenson Papers, 1984-1994
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.07
Abstract
John Bell Stephenson (1937-1994) was born in Staunton, Virginia, to Louis Stephenson and Edna Moles Stephenson. Stephenson earned a B.A. in sociology in 1959 from the College of William and Mary and his M.A. in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1961. From 1961 until 1964 hetaught at Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, North Carolina, where he met and married his colleague Jane Ellen Baucom. During his time in Banner Elk, John Stephenson developed a passion to...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1984 - 1994
John C. Campbell Folk School Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0025 SAA 024
Abstract
Focusing on adult education, founders, Olive Dame Campbell and Marguerite Butler (later Bidstrup) modeled the John C. Campbell Folk School's program on the folk schools of Denmark. The school was named in honor of Olive's late husband John C. Campbell, who had envisioned the Danish approach as an effective means of educating young adults to become productive citizens who would stay in the mountains instead of moving away to urban areas.
Starting with an old farmhouse and a log barn, the...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1909-1981
John C. Campbell Folk School Records, 1923-1985
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0047 SAA 047
Abstract
The John C. Campbell Folk School was founded at Brasstown, North Carolina in 1925 by Olive Dame Campbell to further the educational and social vision of her late husband, John C. Campbell. Starting with an old farmhouse and a log barn, it rapidly expanded to include a farm, dairy, forestry program, forge, and a crafts and recreation program. Based on the Danish approach of linking the culture of work with that of books, its purpose was to build and enrich rural life through adult...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1923 - 1985
John Courter Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.11
Abstract
John Courter was an organist, carillonneur, and professor of music at Berea College. Courter joined the Berea College faculty in 1971 as a teacher and organist. After retiring from teaching in 2007, he continued to serve as College Organist and was also the College Carillonneur. In addition, to work at the Courter was the organist at Union Church and a long-time contributor to the music of St. Clare Catholic Church, both in Berea.
A native of Lansing, Michigan, Courter earned a bachelor’s...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1980-2010
John F. Smith Traditional Music Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0006 SAA 005
Abstract
John F. Smith taught in the Berea College Normal School. As part of his Composition and Rhetoric course, Smith asked students to write down the names of banjo and fiddle songs and tunes known to them in their home districts of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. The results are a large, varied body of material that includes ballads, songs, fiddle and banjo tunes, and games. Several students also included lists of musical instruments present in their home communities and descriptions of music...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1940; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1940
Josiah Combs Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0071 SAA 071
Abstract
Born in Hazard, Kentucky, Josiah H. Combs (1886-1960) grew up in Hindman where he learned many folksongs from family members, especially his mother. In 1902 he entered the newly established Hindman Settlement School, where his songs came to the attention of school director, Katherine Pettit (who sent the words of several of these songs to folk music scholar George Lyman Kittredge who arranged for their publication in the Journal of American Folklore.)
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1910-1960
Katherine Jackson French Ballad Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0005-SAA 004
Abstract
Katherine Jackson French was influenced to collect mountain ballads through friends who had attended a lecture—in 1905—at which two instructors from Berea College, Kentucky, spoke about the uncollected ballads in the mountains of Kentucky. She was writing her dissertation at Columbia University at the time and she delayed investigating the matter of collecting mountain ballads until 1909 when she returned to London, Kentucky, to attend her mother who was ill. On at least two occasions in...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1909-1916
Kenneth Thompson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 04-4.06
Scope and Contents
The papers of Kenneth Thompson is a small collection of records including biographical material, memoranda, materials from Thompson's tenure as both Dean of Men and Associate Dean, and records regarding the March on Montgomery (March 1965) including statements made by the College regarding students planning to attend the march. Also included in the papers are a collection of Dean's Committee Meeting Minutes (1955-1958) and Thompson's records from his work with Pine Mountain Settlement...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1949-1981
Kentucky Child Welfare Research Foundation - Rural Child Care Project Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0261
Abstract
The Kentucky Child Welfare Research Foundation’s Rural Child Care Project provided services to meet the growth and development needs of economically and educationally disadvantaged children and their families in ten Appalachian counties of Eastern Kentucky. Major objectives of the program included providing a combination of casework, homemaking, and day care services to aid the intellectual growth and development of children in Appalachian Kentucky.
Records in this collection were donated...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1967-1971