Appalachian Region.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:
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...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1984 - 1994
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...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1940; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1940
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...
Dates:
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...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1967-1971
Kentucky Craft Guild (Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen)
Digital Record
Identifier: Warren Brunner: Kentucky Craft Guild
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1975 - 1986
Louise Gilman Hutchins Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0173 SAA 174
Abstract
Louise Gilman Hutchins was born February 2, 1911 to Episcopal missionaries—Gertrude Carter Gilman and Bishop Alfred Alonzo Gilman—in Changsha, Hunan Province, China. Hutchins graduated from Wellesley College in 1932 and married Francis S. Hutchins in 1934. Louise Hutchins earned her M.D. from Yale University in 1936. After graduating from Yale, Hutchins returned to China to live with her husband who was serving as an administrator for the Yale-in-China program and to complete her medical...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1923-1996
Loyal Jones Appalachian Center
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.1
Abstract
These are the official records of the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1965 -
Margaret Dotson Foodways Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0238 HC 63
Abstract
This collection is comprised of primary sources assembled by Margaret Dotson, Berea College Associate Professor of Child and Family Studies. The collection was assembled with the intention of assisting researchers examining the past foodways, social history, commerce and genealogy of the Appalachian region. The collection was also assembled with the objective of preserving essential components, records, and primary sources of the foodways of the Appalachian region and provide insight into...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1900-1966; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2013
McCall's Magazine Report Collection
Collection — 1
Identifier: BCA 0104 SAA 104
Scope and Contents
This is a collection containing a copy of the report “McCall Magazine Survey: Our Last Frontier” by Phillips Wyman on the investigation of Berea College submitted in April 1925 to a Mr. Warner, a Mr. Wilson, and a Mr. Burton of McCall’s Magazine. Included in the report are an introduction (as to whether or not a piece should be written about Berea College), “Description of the Mountain People,” “Description of Berea College,” a statement by Dr. Sherwood Eddy to the International Committee...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1925
Mountain Home Cost $20
Digital Record
Identifier: Ogg Mountain Home Cost $20