Education -- North Carolina.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
John C. Campbell Folk School Collection
Collection — 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...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1909-1981
John C. Campbell Folk School records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0047-SAA 047
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of records and photographs documenting the history and work of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina.
Dates:
1923 - 1985