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Pine Mountain Settlement School<\/strong>
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LUTRELLA BAKER ALBUM Line Fork Settlement<\/h2>\n
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Group portrait of community youth at Line Fork Settlement, 1937-1941. [line_fork_005a.jpg]<\/p><\/div>\n

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TAGS<\/strong>: Lutrella Baker Album Line Fork Settlement; Pine Mountain Settlement School; photographs ; satellite settlements ;\u00a0Lutrella Baker; Rev. Richard Baker; Dr. Ida S. Stapleton; Rev. Robert Stapleton;\u00a0education and industrial training programs; community; Infirmary; Harlan County; mining; The Cabin; <\/span>circle dances; nurses; locomotives; Gilley, KY; garden terracing; sorghum; Burkham School House<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Lutrella Baker Album Line Fork Settlement\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is a collection of photographs taken at the Line Fork Settlement<\/a> which was a\u00a0satellite extension of Pine Mountain Settlement School some six miles to the west of the main School. The photographs, taken in the late 1920s to the beginning of 1940s by various photographers, document\u00a0life at the satellite settlement school while it\u00a0was under the direction of the Stapletons<\/a> and then the Rev. Richard\u00a0Baker and his wife, Lutrella<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lutrella Baker Album Line Fork Settlement: THE BAKERS<\/h3>\n

The\u00a0Lutrella Baker Album<\/em> is named for Lutrella Baker<\/strong>, Rev. Richard Baker<\/strong>‘s wife, who assembled the album. Rev. Baker, a minister, not a physician, was charged with the management of Line Fork Settlement in late 1937 under the general direction of Pine Mountain’s director, Glyn Morris<\/a><\/strong>. They followed the departure of the previous directors, Dr. Ida S. Stapleton<\/strong> and her husband, the Reverend Robert Stapleton<\/strong>, who left Line Fork in 1937.<\/p>\n

The Bakers continued to be salaried and administered by Pine Mountain Settlement School. Lutrella assisted with the education and industrial training programs at Line Fork, while the Rev. Baker was charged with programming and general site administration.<\/p>\n

Lutrella Baker Album Line Fork Settlement: THE ALBUM<\/h3>\n

The photograph collection and album were\u00a0donated to Pine Mountain by the daughter of Lutrella Baker who\u00a0was one of two children in the Baker family at Line Fork. The two children show up frequently in the photographs.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0album begins with photographs of the Stapletons and then\u00a0many images of the Bakers. The small album of 15 pages contains 41 photographs.<\/p>\n

There does not appear to be a chronological order to the images and some images are difficult to date, but generally, they provide an overview of the Baker’s time at Line Fork and a window on the physical facility and surrounding community. Compared to earlier images of the settlement, these images provide a graphic record of the changes in the community since the inception of the Line Fork programs in the 1920s.<\/p>\n

Lutrella Baker Album Line Fork Settlement: THE ENDING OF THE SETTLEMENT<\/h3>\n

With the Bakers, the settlement programs of Line Fork came to an end in 1941. There were many reasons for the closure of the facility at Line Fork — economic, educational, religious, and social — but it largely was phased out due to the increasing drain on resources for\u00a0Pine Mountain Settlement which was struggling to grow its increasingly important boarding school for high-school students. New buildings were being constructed at Pine Mountain, and the Infirmary<\/a> was picking up most of the community medical needs. Harlan County was managing the local schools, and industrial training was fragmented and difficult to focus as mining dominated the work options and women struggled to keep families together as men left to work in the mines.<\/p>\n

Following the departure of the Bakers in 1941, an artist, Mr. Sanford<\/strong>, occupied the Cabin from April to June of 1941 and he was followed by B. McKnight<\/strong> and his family in July of the same year. Neither occupant was engaged in programming for settlement work or under the administration of Pine Mountain, though rental was collected by Pine Mountain School on the property. There followed a series of renters of the Cabin until the main cabin burned and the second cabin soon followed the same fate.<\/p>\n

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Lutrella Baker Album Line Fork Settlement: GALLERY<\/h3>\n\n\t\t