Hindman Settlement School Records 1899-1979 [microform].
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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 ...
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...
Hindman Settlement School (Hindman, Ky.)
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Hindman Settlement School traces its origins to educational and recreational programs funded by the Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs and conducted in Knott and Perry counties, Kentucky by Katherine Pettit, May Stone, and others during the summers of 1899-1901. Interest by local residents in continuing these activities led to establishment of a school at Hindman in 1902. Initial funding came from the Women's Christian Temperance Union, but in 1915 the school became an independent, non-denomin...
Watts, Elizabeth, 1890-1993.
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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...
Stone, May N.
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