Appalachian Region.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:
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
Henry Mixter Penniman Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.36
Abstract
From 1895 to 1922, the Rev. Henry M. Penniman served as Professor of Christian Evidences, a field agent, fund raiser, financial agent, and general evangelist for Berea College. He was a close friend of President Frost and helped raise the funds for the·women's Gymnasium that would be named the Woods-Penniman building on the Berea College Campus. After retirement, Penniman continued to preach, teach, and work with the College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1910-1922
Howard Dorgan Research Notes
Collection — 1
Identifier: BCA 0102 SAA 102
Scope and Contents
This collection contains research notes made by Howard Dorgan as he visited Old Regular Baptist churches in Kentucky and Virginia between 1986 and 1987. Dorgan was invited to do this work by Darvin and Gaynell Marshall who study the mountain culture of southwest Virginia. This work was partially funded by an Appalachian Studies Fellowship Grant awarded by the Appalachian Center at Berea College. Howard Dorgan, at the time of the research, was from the Department of Communication Arts at...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1986-1987
Ira Jay Martin III Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.32
Abstract
Dr. Ira Jay Martin III was a fixture at Berea College serving as professor in the Philosophy and Religions Department for thirty-three years. He was an instructor for two years before being promoted to Assistant Professor in 1946. In the fall of 1966 he was appointed to the Henry Mixter Penniman Professorship, which he held until his retirement in 1977 (becoming an emeritus professor). Martin published several books on a variety of topics in religion. He was the author of ...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1944-1989; Other: Majority of material found in 1955-1977
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
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