Mountain Life and Work
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 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
Helen Dingman Papers
Collection — 1
Identifier: BCA 0026 SAA 025
Abstract
Diaries, correspondence, reports, notes, and photographs mainly documenting Helen Dingman's community organizing and educational efforts in Harlan County, Kentucky during the early 1900s.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1917-1945
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