American wit and humor -- Appalachian Region.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Appalachian Humor and Speech
File — Box 7, Folder: 8
Identifier: Folder 8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1968-2000
Loyal Jones Rural/Country Comedy Reference Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0135 SAA 135
Abstract
Loyal Jones (1928-) grew up on a 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 from the University of North Carolina in 1957. He was the first Director of the Berea College Appalachian Center (now the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center) serving in that capacity from 1970 to 1993.
Jones served in the United States Army and was a public...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1991-2008