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Pine Mountain Settlement School<\/strong>
\nSeries 04: Pine Mountain School Histories<\/strong><\/p>\n

BERTHA SHEPARD “LITTLE JOURNEYS” I PMSS 1938<\/h2>\n
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TAGS:<\/strong> Bertha Shepard “Little Journeys” I PMSS 1938; Dorothy Whitehill; Labrida Hanby; Chester Hunt; drawings; automobile travel; Southern Appalachians travel; road trips; Burton Rogers; donations; cultural collision<\/p>\n

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“Little Journeys” illustration. Mountain cabin. [little_journeys_image002.jpg]<\/p><\/div>Written in 1938, LITTLE JOURNEYS is a travel journal that details events of two early automobile trips 1930s. The first journey through the Southern Appalachians of Bertha Shepard<\/a>, Dorothy Whitehill, <\/strong>and Labrida Hanby<\/strong> is the most important to Pine Mountain Settlement School, as it describes travel to the School.<\/p>\n

The second travel account included in the same journal is titled: “CHIEN CHAUD AND CULTURE SEEKERS On the King’s Highway<\/a>,<\/strong>” and is a journey to Eastern Canada by two of the earlier travelers, Bertha Shepard and Labrida Handy.<\/p>\n

The following “LITTLE JOURNEYS” is the first 1938 journey. Both accounts are the work of Bertha Shephard and the illustrations are by her nephew Chester Hunt<\/strong> who was not present on the trips but most likely took his images from the photographs or film that were made of the two journeys.<\/p>\n

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CORRESPONDENCE: Bertha Shepard “Little Journeys” PMSS 1938<\/h3>\n

Labrida Hanby to Burton Rogers, 1973<\/h3>\n

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Bertha Shepard. “Little Journeys” cover, 1938. [pmss_shepherd_journeys_001_mod]<\/p><\/div>The following letter, sent to Burton Rogers<\/a>, Director of Pine Mountain Settlement School, in 1973 by Labrida Hanby\u00a0<\/strong>at the time the journal was donated to Pine Mountain, describes the women and their journey. Labrida Hanby wrote, “I am happy to give it [ the journal]. I feel sure no one in my family would be especially interested in it.”<\/p>\n

The journal is, however, quite interesting for multiple reasons. It graphically captures the people and places that the trio met on their journey and also reflects the tensions between “outlanders” and natives and the lessons learned from their cultural collisions.<\/p>\n

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Franklin, PA
\nJuly 10, 1973<\/p>\n

Dear Mr. Rogers,<\/p>\n

I was delighted to receive your “Thank You” for my contribution to Pine Mountain with its added information and reminiscences.<\/p>\n

I am sending you this Travelogue written by Miss Shepard. If you think it can be used in the school library, I am happy to give it. I feel sure no one in my family would be especially interested in it.<\/p>\n

When she [Bertha Shepard] sent it to me, she said her nephew wondered “why Auntie couldn’t have used a little sense in writing a travelogue”; but the writing shows her sense of humor and her gay spirit.<\/p>\n

Now for the facts:<\/p>\n

[The 3 travelers]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bertha Shepard<\/strong><\/a> — newspaper woman first in Elyria, Ohio [Lorain County, Northeast Ohio] and the proofreader for years for the Cleveland News*,<\/em>\u00a0Cleveland, Ohio. [*The Cleveland News<\/em> was published\u00a0from 1905 to 1960 when it was absorbed by the Cleveland Press<\/em>.]<\/p>\n

Dorothy Whitehill<\/strong> — school teacher for few years then at home to care for mother but with much interest in coaching plays in community, for 4H club in church school. (Knox, Pa)<\/p>\n

Labrida Hanby<\/strong> — English teacher in Junior and Senior High School — also drama coach for school plays (Franklin, Ohio) [Labrida Hanby\u00a0<\/em>was born\u00a010\/11\/1895 and died 04\/00\/1984.]<\/p>\n

[Artist]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chester “Chet” Hunt,<\/strong> Bertha’s nephew, did the sketches. In college studying advertising.<\/p>\n

The car was mine; Dorothy assisted in driving. As you see, the year was 1938.<\/p>\n

Coming back to the account of Pine Mountain, I am wondering if the young people of the area would take offense at the references to “Aunt Til<\/strong>” and “Aunt Sally<\/strong>.” I can’t account for a page [p. 32] missing in the narrative nor why it ends so abruptly.<\/p>\n

Included in this “Little Journeys” is a trip Bertha and I took from Pennsylvania to Canada two years previous to the Pine Mountain one. I am including it also. Maybe someone will read it and enjoy it.<\/p>\n

By way of explanation — you\u00a0hear from Dorothy and me; Bertha was killed in a tragic accident many years ago. I do not have the date.<\/p>\n

Ruth Moyer<\/strong> and I made a trip to Pine Mt. a good many years ago while the Starbucks<\/a> were there (He was in charge of maintenance) and, I am sure, you were in charge at that time. My recollections of Pine Mountain are happy ones and it is interesting to look back upon those days.<\/p>\n

Sincerely yours,
\nLabrida Hanby<\/p>\n

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