Hindman Settlement School Collection 1899-1977.

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Hindman Settlement School Collection 1899-1977.

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Correspondence, diaries, newsletters, ballad texts, and photographs relating to Hindman Settlement School founders, Katherine Pettit, May Stone and other key figures in the school's early history including Ann Cobb, Josiah Combs, Lucy Furman, and Elizabeth Watts.

1 linear ft. (3 mss boxes)

Berea College, Hutchins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7629900

Berea College, Hutchins Library

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Hutchins Library. Special Collections.

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The Hindman Settlement School was established at Hindman, Knott County, Kentucky in 1902 with funding from the Women's Christian Temperance Union. In 1915 it became an independent, non-denominational corporation whose purpose was to "maintain a school for industrial, intellectual and moral training in the mountainous, destitute or needy portions of Kentucky." In addition to basic academic subjects there were courses in manual arts, home economics, agriculture, folk art, and music. Facilities gre...

Stone, May N.

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Combs, Josiah Henry, 1886-1960

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Josiah H. Combs (1886-1960) was born in Hazard (Perry County) Kentucky. He grew up in Knott County and attended Hindman Settlement School. The songs he had learned at home came to the attention of Hindman director Katherine Pettit, who, with folk music scholar George Lyman Kittredge, arranged for their publication in the Journal of American Folklore. Combs went to college at Transylvania University (Ky.) in 1905. In 1911, with Dr. Hubert G. Shearin, Combs published A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk So...

Furman, Lucy S.

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Author and settlement worker. Born 1869; died 1958. From the description of Lucy S. Furman papers, 1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450369 ...

Pettit, Katherine

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Katherine Pettit was born in 1868 near Lexington, Kentucky and was educated at schools in Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky. As an active member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), she made several summer trips to southeastern Kentucky between 1895 and 1901. In 1902, with WCTU funding, she and May Stone founded what would become Hindman Settlement School in Knott County. Particularly notable was an educational program that emphasized crafts, traditional music, and manual skills as...

Hindman Settlement School (Hindman, Ky.)

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Watts, Elizabeth, 1890-1993.

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