Oral history -- Appalachian region.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Appalachian Oral History Collection (1973 Fall Term)
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0059 SAA 059
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of twenty-one audio cassette recordings of interviews, informal discussions, musical performances, and commentary recorded by Berea College students under the direction of history professor, Richard B. Drake, during the 1973 fall semester.Subject areas include Pine Mountain Settlement School, John C. Campbell Folk School, the Christian Appalachian Project, the Civilian Conservation Corps in Pike County, Kentucky, and Berea College's Christmas Country Dance...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1972-1973
Appalachian Volunteers Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0040 SAA 039
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of sixteen audio recordings and unedited transcripts (of six of the interviews) with former Appalachian Volunteer workers who were assigned to West Virginia, between 1964 and 1967, and then settled in the area after their service ended.These interviews were recorded by Marie Tyler McGraw during the summer of 1982 with the support of an Appalachian Studies Fellowship from the Berea College Appalachian Center. McGraw's article based on this research...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1982
Berea College 1973-1975 Oral History Project Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.04
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of twenty nine audio cassette recordings of individual interviews, group discussions, and oral presentations that document various aspects of Berea College and community history.There are transcripts for the individual interviews and notes in varying degrees of completeness for the other recordings.The memory time span of the narrators ranges mostly from the 1920s to the early 1970s. The interviews were conducted by various faculty members and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1973-1975
Berea College 1973 Appalachian Oral History Project Collection (January Short Term)
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.03
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of audio recorded interviews conducted by Berea College students as part of a January 1973 short term History 190 course taught by Dr. Richard Drake.
Listen To Interviews
Interview topics include: moonshining in Perry County (KY), early medical practices and services in Clay County...
Dates:
Other: 1973
Berea College Appalachian Museum Oral History Collection, 1975-1980
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.12
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of interviews recorded between 1975 and 1980 documenting a wide variety of Appalachian traditional crafts, occupations, and expressive culture from areas of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia.Listen To Interviews, Read Transcripts, View Photographs The...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1975 - 1980
Berea College Campus Ministry Oral History Collection, 1983-1988
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.14
Scope and Contents
Follow links in the recordings box list to listen to interviews and read interview transcripts. This collection is comprised of interviews tracing the development of religious life activities and programs at Berea College especially in relationship to the establishment of the position of Campus Minister and the Campus Christian Center.The memory time span of the interviewees ranges from 1930 through 1988, the time of the then most recent interview. The collection consists of audio...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1983 - 1988
Council of the Southern Mountains Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0110 SAA 110
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of recorded interviews with transcripts relating to the work of the Council of the Southern Mountains (CSM) during the period 1970-1989. Interviewees include the former CSM executive director, other staff, board members, and elected officers.Listen To interview recordings and / or read transcripts
The interviews...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2004-2005
Disputanta Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0032 SAA 030
Abstract
These are audio recorded interviews that document the history of the Disputanta community in northern Rockcastle County, Kentucky.
Also included in the collection are a series of remembrances of the Clear Creek Community by "Cleatus Tussey" (John Payne) that appeared in the Mount Vernon Signal, Spring 1952-Fall 1953.
The interviews were conducted [1978-1979] by then Berea College student, Terry Allebaugh, with financial assistance from the National Endowment...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1978-1979
Hutchins Library - Indiana University Folktale Workshop
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0245
Abstract
The Hutchins Library - Indiana University Folktale Workshop was a three-week research residency held in Berea July 7-26, 2003. It was sponsored jointly by Berea College, the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, and the Tales Online Project. Participants included students, teachers, storytellers, and researchers. The Primary focus of the study was Berea's Leonard Roberts Folktale Collection.
Activities included archival research, tale transcription of audio recordings, guest speakers,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2003
Union Church Collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0176 HC 01
Abstract
The Church of Christ, Union, of Berea Kentucky (Union Church) collection consists of materials pertaining to the historical, financial, and celebratory records of the institution. It also includes information about the church’s order for worship, including music and the arts as a part of the church’s history.
There are minutes, programs, and brochures about the governance of the church and in celebration of its two major anniversaries: the Centennial in 1953 and the Sesquicentennial in...
Dates:
Other: 1865-