newspapers; floods; disasters; college towns; colleges
This is a special edition paper printed by Pikeville College in the aftermath of the Flood of 1977. While its purpose was to seek funding for the college after the crisis, this paper also relates first-hand accounts of the flood and how it...
Folk Music--West Virginia--Helvetia; Swiss Americans--West Virginia; Burke, Vernon and Norman; Betler, Bruce; High Leigh High Low;
Swiss American Folk music from Helvetia, Randolph County, West Virginia, played and sung by Norman and Vernon Burke with bruce Betler at Berea College on 10-22-92.
These students are standing in front of the original Pikeville High School. The tall man in the hat on the left appears to be T.M. Riddle, who served as principal of Pikeville High School. The image had to have been before 1914, which is when...
Guy Carawan plays guitar and sings for students in Greenville, South Carolina. This was attended and recorded by a high school group from Paideia school in Atlanta, led by John Sundale.Guy Carawan plays guitar and sings for students in Greenville,...
Alan Jabbour (fiddle) and Bertram Levy (banjo) perform at Warren Wilson College's Sage Cafe. They are two of the founding members of the Hollow Rock String Band. This concert was organized by Phil Jamison. Alan talks about ragtime music and the...
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Education.; Lincoln Memorial University (Harrogate, Tenn.)
An article from the "Mountain Herald" about a sixteen-year old student who had trudged across the mountains in Kentucky, accompanied by her brother, for seventeen miles to reach the railroad station to travel to Lincoln Memorial...
Walter Boone talks with Kip Lornell about taking classes and teaching a high school class. He is the youngest member of the Floyd County Ramblers; Sam McNeil-banjo, Banks McNeil-fiddle, Walter Boone-harmonica, John Willie Boone-guitar.
Contains letters by Eugene V. Debs and John Mitchell published in the Social Democratic Herald concerning the averted strike in 1904 of the United Mine Workers of America.