John C. Campbell Folk School Collection 1909-1981.
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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...
John C. Campbell Folk School
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The John C. Campbell Folk School, founded in 1925 by Olive Dame Campbell and Marguerite Butler, was organized on the model of folk and craft schools common in Scandinavia. The original purpose of the School was to preserve the indigenous culture of the southern highlands and to transmit these traditions to young people. From the description of John C. Campbell Folk School records, 1928-1988 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 49889328 The John C. Campbell Folk School was found...
Campbell, Olive D. (Olive Dame), 1882-1954
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Between 1908 and 1909, Olive Dame Campbell assisted her husband, John, on a fact-finding mission regarding social and cultural conditions in Appalachia. While traveling through the region, Campbell noted that many of the local ballads had strong ties to English and Irish folk songs. As her interest grew, Campbell began collecting the words and music to these songs, later published as "English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians." She also founded and directed the John C. Campbell Folk Scho...
Campbell, John C. (John Charles), 1867-1919
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John C. Campbell (1867-1919) was born in La Porte, Ind., on 14 September 1867 to Gavin and Anna Barbara (Kipp) Campbell, and grew up in Steven's Point, Wisc. He graduated from Williams College in 1892 and received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Andover Theological Seminary in 1895. That same year, he married Grace H. Buckingham of Stevens Point, Wisc., who died in 1905. He married Olive Arnold Dame of West Medford, Mass., in 1907. Campbell was a missionary teacher in...
