Madison County (Ky.) -- History.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Appalachian Historic Forest Conditions Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0286
Scope and Contents
This oral history collection consists of interviews (mostly during 1996) with eighteen elder (over 65) Appalachians about their recollections of the forest in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. While the interviews focus on their experience of the forests, their stories also intersect with other aspects of their experience and contributions such as music and art.
Interviewees:
Giles Rainey
Minnie Yancey
Zan White
Ernest Kinnaird
William...
Dates:
1996
Battle of Richmond papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0225 HC 50
Abstract
Papers of Dr. Warren Dean Lambert as related to his prolific study of the Battle of Richmond and the writing of his book When the Ripe Pears Fell, the only full-length historical monograph on the Battle of Richmond.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1978-1996
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
Interviewees Are:
Bethel Cornette Interview re: Moonshining January 1973
Bill Woods Interview re:...
Dates:
Other: 1973
Cassius Marcellus Clay collection
Collection — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3; Series 4; Series 5
Identifier: BCA 0218 HC 02
Abstract
Collection of materials by and about Cassius M. Clay.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1849 - 1975
Emily Ann Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.45
Abstract
Emily Ann Smith served as a Berea College Faculty member from 1930 until 1986 which included her tenure as secretary to the President, English professor, and Chairman of the English Department.
Smith, a native of Mayfield, KY, graduated from Randolph-Macon Women’s College in 1925 and Columbia Teachers College in 1930. In the summer of 1930, she moved to Berea to assume duties in the English Department as an associate professor. Smith remained a member of the English Department for forty-two...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-1987
Francis S. Hutchins papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.05
Abstract
Official records and personal papers of the fifth president of Berea College, Francis S. Hutchins.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1924-1979
William J. Hutchins papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.04
Abstract
Personal and official papers of William J. Hutchins.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1850 - 1977; Other: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1958
Kentucky Foothills Square Dance Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0268
Abstract
Interviews recorded by Susan Spalding documenting the history of square dancing in Berea and surrounding counties. Also included are selected audio and video excerpts of local dance groups and callers.
The dancing is the type done in a big circle that divides into smaller “squares” of two couples. Listen to Interview...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2014; Other: Majority of material found in 2014; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1901
Madison County, Kentucky: History - Madison County Civil War Round Table
File — Box 144, Folder: 1
Identifier: Folder 1
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