William Sherman Bevins, holding lantern, was the son of James and Susan Porter Bevins. He was born just below the mouth of the Rockhouse Fork of Big Creek. He served at various times as a United States Marshall, and a Baldwin-Felts detective, and...
Various schools are represented in the picture. Pikeville, Blackberry, Freeburn, Hellier, Ball Fork, Sidney, Piso, Belfy, and others are found in the image.
This picture once belonged to William M. Justice. It was given to the college by Alice J. Kinder. Ms. Spilman at various times taught math, bible, and biology at Pikeville College. Spilman Apartments was named in her honor.
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Religion and culture.
This photograph of the bygone days of the horse and buggy era shows how Reverend Isaac S. Anderson traveled from Rose Hill, Virginia, to Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, circa 1907, where he held ministerial services in an old log church there. In the...
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...
Evolution; Religion; Literature; Tennessee Wesleyan College
This is a copy of page 64 from the book, "God's two books:
or plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible" by
George McCready Price. 1911, Published by the Review and
Herald Publishing Association, Washington, D.C. The book...
There are three copies of this image. All three agree that this is a picture of Jack Russell and students. Two of the images state that the second from the left is Sam Cogdill, and the third from the left is Bobby Broyles (coach at Chuckey-Doak...
The picture shows the work crew in front of the partly remodelled and expanded Knox County Courthouse in Barbourville, KY. This 1875 structure underwent extensive upgrading with wings added to the north and south sides.
Manring Theatre (Middlesboro, Ky.); Lincoln Memorial University (Harrogate, Tenn.) -- History.;
The article: "Special train to Middlesboro" relates to the Manring Theatre and the local devision of the L[ouisville] and N[ashville] Railroad provided a special courtesy and a train so that students of Lincoln Memorial University could...
Text of a brochure written by Rev. Edgar Tufts, Principle of
the Girls Department of Lees-McRae Institute, Banner Elk,
North Carolina, describing the plight of young women in the
mountains of Western North Carolina and requesting
scholarship...
Spud Gravely plays guitar and sings a song he wrote. He is almost completely blind. Spud was born in Wythe County and moved to Carroll County, where this interview with Blanton Owen takes place.