Education -- Appalachian Region, Southern.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Council of the Southern Mountains records, Part 1
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0002-SAA 001
Abstract
The Council of the Southern Mountains records (1912-1976) document the goals, activities, and administrative history of a non-profit organization that served the people of the Appalachian region.
Dates:
1912 - 1976; Other: Date acquired: 04/24/1970
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
Perley F. Ayer Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0022 SAA 021
Abstract
Perley F. Ayer, a native of New Hampshire, was educated at the University of New Hampshire (B.S.1922) and Cornell University (M.S. 1947). Prior to coming to Berea in 1947, he had been employed as an extension agent in New Hampshire and as an instructor at Pleasant Hill Academy in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee. He worked at Berea College as supervisor of an agricultural training program in the Foundation School, as a field representative for the Admissions office, and as an instructor in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1952-1968
Southern Appalachian Studies Records (1962 Survey)
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0004 SAA 003
Abstract
The Southern Appalachian Studies 1972 Regional Survey resulted from the 1956 Interdenominational Conference of Religious Workers' determination that there was inadequate information available to develop an effective course of action addressing the broad problems plaguing the Appalachian region and its people. The original conference of representatives from major church bodies were called together by Dr. Willis D. Weatherford, Sr. to discuss problems and plan programs orientated to upgrading...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1956-1962; Other: Majority of material found in 1962