Katherine Pettit Papers 1899-1937.

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Katherine Pettit Papers 1899-1937.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51968811

Correspondence and diaries documenting Katherine Pettit's efforts that led to the founding of Hindman (1902) and Pine Mountain (1913) Settlement Schools.

0.8 linear ft. (2 mss boxes)

Berea College, Hutchins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7646161

Berea College, Hutchins Library

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Hindman Settlement School (Hindman, Ky.)

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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 ...

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...

De Long, Ethel.

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Stone, May N.

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