Spring Hill School collection, 1926-1939.

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Spring Hill School collection, 1926-1939.

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The Spring Hill School collection documents a private school modelled on a philosophy of progressive education. Founded by Dorothy Bull and Mabel Foster Spinney in Litchfield, Conn., the school operated from 1926 to 1939. The collection includes correspondence, financial records, minutes, institutional records, brochures, and published editions of student work. The collection also contains tributes to co-founders Bull from 1934 and Spinney from 1951 and a compilation of Spring Hill School remembrances collected in 1999. In some of these publications are works by a student named Peter Seeger, who would later find fame as a folk songer, song writer, and activist, better known as Pete Seeger.

0.83 linear ft.

Litchfield Historical Society

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Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014

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Pete Seeger (1919-2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. As a member of the Weavers, Seeger was often heard on the radio in the early 1950s, most notably on their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene". In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture, workers' rights, and environmental causes. A prolific songwriter, his best-known songs include "Where Have ...

Spinney, Mabel Foster

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Spring Hill School (Litchfield, Conn.)

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Bull, Dorothy, 1887-1934

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