Madison County (Ky.)

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Blue Grass Army Depot.

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This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.

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This collection contains over 45,500 images/photographs (dated from 1953) of Warren Brunner’s work.

Abstract Joseph T. Gray worked with Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky, making documentaries, until he decided to work independently. While living in Somerset, Kentucky, he sought funding to produce a documentary on the question of how to dispose of deteriorating chemical weapons stored at the Army's Bluegrass Depot in Madison County, Kentucky. Although he followed the hearings and shot raw footage of interviews, etc., he never received the funding he needed to edit and produce a documentary on the...

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This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 4 comprises publications documenting state and national matters and includes works on government, history, agriculture, events, and state politics. Many resources focus on the states of Kentucky and Michigan. Of special note, the final work in this series is a program from the April 9, 1968 memorial services for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. held in Atlanta, Georgia. Each subseries (Kentucky, Michigan, Other States) is arranged by publication date, then by author and title. Within the...

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Manuscript and typescript notes concerning the Hays Berea - Bill Hill Pike Co. tollgate book. Formerly Log 9517. (Reunited with the ledger January 2024).

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Unedited version of an essay submitted October 15, 2019 by Jim Embry to We Are Each Other's Harvest by Natalie Baszile published by Harper Collins April 2021. Gift of the author. Jim Embry is a native of Richmond, Kentucky. The essay discusses Jim Embry's family history, the plight of African Americans after the Civil War, the Black Chautauqua movement in Kentucky, agriculture, and food activism. It also contains numerous references to Berea College.

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Tollbook for Gate No. 1 presented to Berea College Library by Ellen Hays Mitchell as requested by her mother, Mrs. Frank Hays.

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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.