Pine Mountain (Kentucky) Community Study Records 1948-1965.
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Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.)
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Pine Mountain Settlement School was incorporated by Katherine Pettit and Ethel DeLong in 1913 and operated as a boarding school until 1949. In addition to regular academic subjects, students were involved in traditional music and dance activities, and a labor program that helped run the school and develop useful skills. In the 1930s the curriculum was refocused towards trade professions and skills for rural community living. During the 1940s, the school temporarily came under the administration ...
Giffin, Roscoe.
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The study was proposed in 1949 by Berea College president Francis S. Hutchins, who was then a trustee of Pine Mountain Settlement School. The school's boarding high school had closed that year and its elementary programs merged with the Harlan County school system. It was hoped that a socio-economic study of the area would be useful in identifying possible new areas of service for the school to pursue. The study was never published in its entirety, although the data was the bases for several maj...
Berea College
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Although the sources of photographs are not always indicated, the bulk was apparently generated in the Berea College Publicity Department and the College News Bureau. In addition, portions of the photographs were donated by individuals, most of whom have some connection with the College. Chief among these is Roy N. Walters who was dean of the Berea College Foundation School from 1943 to 1968. Walters established the College Publicity Department in 1933 and was an unofficial campus photographer t...
