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Collection
Identifier: BCA 0029 SAA 028
Abstract
This collection is comprised of the organizational and administrative records of the Appalachian Studies Association (formerly the Appalachian Studies Conference) from its inception in 1977.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within 1977 - 2023
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0003 SAA 002
Abstract
The Appalachian Volunteers (AV) was one of the most visible and, initially, successful of the War on Poverty projects of the 1960s. At its peak—in the summers of 1966 and 1967—the organization was receiving large amounts of federal funding and had over 500 volunteer workers in the field. Its prominent involvement in social and political reform, the geographic area it served, and the factors contributing to its demise make the records of the Appalachian Volunteers a rich source for the study...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1963-1970; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1969
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.19
Scope and Contents
These are the personal papers of Bertha Daisy Nickum, Berea College student 1901-1902. Materials include photographs, college memorabilia, and correspondence Nickum wrote during her time at Berea describing both the college and the surrounding areas.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1901-1902
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.45
Abstract
Berea College's Extension Services provided short-term, informal educational programming and services, primarily in adult education, both on and off campus, to persons living in communities around Berea (including the mountain regions as far away as West Virginia). Programming included Opportunity Schools (held both on campus and in other communities), lectures, and the publication of pamphlets, bulletins and leaflets on a variety of topics.
Information regarding the Berea Opportunity...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1898-1958
File — Folder: 9478
Identifier: 9478-[SAA]
Scope and Contents
Two prints without text:
1. "Deserted Cabin" (see page 57 in At Home In the Hills)
2. "Mountain Cabin" (see page 67 in At Home In the Hills)
Data from the original mailing box postmarked August 12, 1982: "Spellman - Prints from Linoleum cuts. Mr. Spellman was a worker at Pine Mt. Settlement School and an Artist. The deserted cabin was on Greasy Creek, Harlan Co. Kentucky."
Dates:
1937 - 1941
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...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1972-
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.55
Abstract
Pat Wear taught at Berea College from 1950 until he retired in 1980. Dr. Wear ("Pat") served as chairman of the college's education department and was a professor of elementary education and director of secondary student teaching. He continued to teach part-time after he retired. In addition to his academic work, Wear was an avid tennis player and was a leading supporter and influence for tennis in Berea and the state of Kentucky.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1955-1979
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0038 SAA 036
Abstract
The Settlement Institutions of Appalachia (SIA) was founded in 1970 as a non-profit consortium of private service institutions in South Central Appalachia. Leaders of the twelve founding institutions envisioned it as a mechanism to facilitate exchange of ideas, cooperation in program development and fund raising.
The first executive committee of the board of directors consisted of Chairman, John Ramsay - John C. Campbell Folk School; vice-chairman, Robert Fulton - Henderson Settlement;...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970-1982
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
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0151 SAA 160
Abstract
Papers of the Urban Appalachian Council (UAC), Cincinnati, OH, 1974-2014
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-2012; Other: Majority of material found in 1967-1994; Other: Date acquired: 06/11/2010
