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These announcements originally appeared on WHAT’S NEW! on the MAIN PAGE<\/a>. There, WHAT’S NEW! highlights collections that were added to the Collections website in the recent month. The listing may also include newly published books, articles, and news items related to Pine Mountain Settlement School.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Go to: WHAT’S NEW!<\/a> for the most recent entry.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n “[Rose] has done so well…. And then she is a girl of fine character and spirit and is such a fine influence with the other girls. You see, she is doing as you are doing, helping others to be better just as you do…..”<\/em> [May 20, 1929. Excerpt from Katherine Pettit’s letter to W.Taylor Brown.]<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n See also: WILLIAM AND ROSE BROWN Correspondence<\/a> W. TAYLOR BROWN Narrative<\/a>, 1922-1926<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n A Berea College Normal School graduate describes his four years as a teacher at Green Hill, a one-room school-house in Harlan County, from 1922 through 1926. He assisted his half-siblings, William and Rose Brown to attend Pine Mountain Settlement School in 1928-1929.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n KATHERINE PETTIT 1899-1900 CAMP CEDAR GROVE REPORT<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Report of the Committee on Social Settlements in the Mountains of Kentucky, presented at the State Federation of Women\u2019s Clubs annual meeting, c. 1899. Possibly written by Katherine Pettit.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n ” … send us a woman, a gentle, womanly woman, a dear old-fashioned woman, young or old, who can win woman\u2019s true rights in that conquest, that in itself is simply being a woman ?<\/em> …<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n DANCING IN THE CABBAGE PATCH Trees<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n A historical overview of the forest associated with Pine Mountain Settlement School, Kentucky including a 1921 inventory of timber, a poem to a sovereign tree, and comments on dispossession and trees, and more …<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n EMMA LUCY BRAUN Visitor<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n American Botanist, Ecologist, and Environmentalist. Photographs and documents related to the friendship and conservation efforts of Emma Lucy Braun and her friend Katherine Pettit.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n MARCH<\/strong> 2021<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n 098 IX STUDENTS at PMSS singles I<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n [Set I] Spanning the years from 1931 until 1944 these photographs (I & II) capture life during the Boarding School years at Pine Mountain Settlement. Photographs of students and staff are included.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n 098 IX STUDENTS at PMSS singles II<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n [Set II] Spanning the years from 1931 until 1944 these photographs (I & II) capture life during the Boarding School years at Pine Mountain Settlement. Photographs of students and staff are included.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n FEBRUARY 2021<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n OBJECT COLLECTIONS Weaving<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n “We of the United States are amazingly rich in the elements from which we weave a culture. We have the best of man\u2019s past on which to draw, brought to us by our native folk and folk from all parts of the world. In binding these elements into a national fabric of beauty and strength let us keep the original fibers so intact that the fineness of each will show in the completed handiwork. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n JANUARY 2021<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n GLYN MORRIS Is There Any Further Need of a School Like Pine Mountain Settlement School?<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n “Eventually, unless he leaves the mountains, the student returns to a situation alien to his schooling. Everything is against him …” DECEMBER 2020 “KATHERINE PETTIT A MEMORY AND AN APPRECIATION<\/a>,” by Mary Beech, Lincoln Memorial University, 1942. Founder and Director Katherine Pettit is something of an enigma to those attempting to describe her. She is both a force to be reckoned with, a teller of tall tales, “feisty,” yet a deeply private person. Lincoln Memorial University President McClelland and wife, staff Mary Beech, and Librarian Miss Fuller from Lincoln Memorial University toured Hindman Settlement and Pine Mountain Settlement in Eastern Kentucky with Pettit in 1932. The resulting portrait sketched by Beech gets very close to the essence of Pettit in her last years.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n NOVEMBER 2020<\/strong> … Then I walked up to her with sweet kisses, — John Riley<\/a>, (English Ballad)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n STORYTELLING – 090 LIFE WORK School Library Storytelling single photographs Part I<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n “… takes place in a time and place set apart: cyclic time, ritual time, or sacred time. Cyclical time is heartbeat body-cycle time; lunar seasonal, annual time: recurrent time, musical time, dancing time, rhythmic time….. A story is told again and again, and yet each new telling is a new event….<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude.”<\/em> 064 VII LIFE WORK General Maintenance Farm Grounds single photographs<\/a> – I can think of nothing so satisfying on a cold morning as a hot-buttered biscuit with warm sorghum running between the fingers or even down the chin. Photographs found in the Pine Mountain archive, provide a window into the production and use of sorghum molasses at the School. The production of sorghum molasses is a practice that has been resurrected many times throughout the history of the institution.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n OCTOBER 2020<\/strong> AUGUST 2020<\/strong> AUGUST 2020 <\/strong> A mountain man’s comment to a visitor: \u201cWell, I allow that thar’s a heap o’ things goin’ on up thar that we all don’t know nary thing about.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n “An’ hit’s the case, I reckon, that thar’s a heap o’ things goin’ on down hyre that you all don’t know nary thing about.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n After a short pause, he came to this philosophical conclusion: \u201cAn’ mixin’ larns both parties.<\/em>“<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n JULY 2020<\/strong> (No postings for July 2020)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n JUNE 2020<\/strong> RUTH STRANG<\/a> – Guidance Institutes Leader – In 1936 Ruth Strang worked with PMSS Director Glyn Morris to develop the Rural Youth Guidance Institutes<\/a> in Harlan County, Kentucky. She then continued as a consultant for the annual Institutes which focused on vocational opportunities and programming for mountain youth and often met at Pine Mountain. In spite of several health problems and roadblocks along the way, Ruth Strang dedicated her life to developing a variety of educational areas. Her many contributions to educational practices continue to be significant today.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The Mountaineers: Our Own Lost Tribes<\/a> by Rollin Lynde Hartt and illustrated by John Wolcott Adams. 1913\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n “Nothing is typical of five and a half million Americans inhabiting 112,000 square miles of alpine paradise. Mountaineers differ, mountain neighborhoods differ, and much that characterizes the mountains characterizes also the lowlands.”<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n (IMAGE: Sketch of house, covered wagon and man on horseback by John Wolcott Adams.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n MAY 2020 1932 Health Survey of Harlan County<\/a> – Captures a glimpse of the people, the coal camps, the doctors, the churches, and the diversity of the county during a challenging period in the history of the U.S.A. (IMAGE: Nurse watching dentist working with small boy in chair.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n APRIL 2020 PMSS COVID 19 NOTICE <\/strong>– \u201cPRESS RELEASE, Harlan, KY – March 20, 2020: Official Statement from Pine Mountain Settlement School – COVID-19 Response and Layoffs\u201d (IMAGE: Press Release.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n MARCH 2020<\/strong> \u201cI think there is a good place here where Greasy, Middle Fork, Line Fork, Straight Creek, Leatherwood, Cutshin, all head in against the Pine Mountain. Pure air, pure water and plenty of children to enjoy it.\u201d <\/em>(IMAGE: Lewis Lyttle.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n FEBRUARY 2020 HOLIDAY GREETINGS<\/a> – <\/em>From the archives a touching poem and a pause to be thankful for those who came before us and who shared the wisdom of their lives, hoping to build a better world. (IMAGE: Page from a publication.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n JANUARY 2020 DECEMBER 2019 How do you know but ev\u2019ry bird — William Blake<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n In the Spring 1942 issue of a little-known publication called Snowy Egret <\/em>Vol 16 No. 1, Thomas R. Henry of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican<\/em> wrote a short article about the discovery of a new warbler, the Sutton\u2019s Warbler. The rare bird was spotted for the first time in 1939 in West Virginia and was described in the publication NANA, a bird-watchers guide.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The small bird at first was not defined as a new species but was thought perhaps to be a hybrid variety of the common<\/em> yellow-throated<\/em> and parula warblers<\/em>. Hybrids rarely reproduce but can do so in optimum environments. The discovery of the new warbler species, in West Virginia, was quickly confirmed by ornithologists at the Smithsonian and published in their journal. More \u2026<\/a> NOVEMBER 2019 \u201cI was born in a small place, and when I was very young I played with a few girls almost the same age. My father was a farmer, and often I played in the fields …\u201d<\/em> MORE \u2026 Grace Feng Liu<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n MOONLIGHT SCHOOLS<\/a> – \u201cThe work opened out before me step by step,\u201d she said. \u201cIf I had known or foreseen the road ahead, a typical mountain road, I doubt if I should have had the courage to try.\u201c <\/em>— Cora Wilson Stewart<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n OCTOBER 2019 <\/strong>(No postings for October 2019)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n SEPTEMBER 2019 COMMUNITY FAIR DAY – FAIR DAY has come and gone this year (It was on Sept. 7). Discover the early history of this annual Community Fair Day and read the many commentaries written by staff and community participants. Starting in 1914, with \u201cFarmer\u2019s Day\u201d until the early 1950s, follow the changes in the years through the COMMUNITY Fair Day Guide<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Get your sweet tooth ready for next year\u2019s SORGHUM MOLASSES STIR OFF<\/a> by reading about molasses history at the School. Want to read a bit deeper about the history of sorghum in the Pine Mountain Valley? See DANCING IN THE CABBAGE PATCH Stir-Off and Sorghum Molasses.<\/a> [BLOG] \u201cThe sun is a-shining to welcome the day and it\u2019s a heigh-ho, come to the fair \u2026..\u201d<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Since c. 1915 Pine Mountain Settlement School has been holding its annual Community Fair Day with only a few skipped years to accommodate the needs of WWI and WWII. Read more \u2026<\/a> (IMAGE: Cover of program for \u201cPine Mountain Community Fair,\u201d September 29, 1928.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n AUGUST 2019<\/strong> Their endeavors were successful in finding skeletons, other bones, and artifacts, as he later described in a short summary in Ancient Life in Kentucky<\/em> (The Kentucky Geological Survey, 1928), an influential work on Kentucky archaeology.Impressed with the School\u2019s students, mission and accomplishments, the men interacted with PMSS students, presenting talks on birds, snakes, the geology of Pine Mountain and other subjects related to their scientific specialties and taking the students on a bird walk. The biographies of these three men have been recently published on the PMSS Collections website. You can read their stories here: ARTHUR M. MILLER<\/a>, VICTOR K. DODGE<\/a>, WILLIAM D. FUNKHOUSER<\/a>. For a history of the Indian Cliff Dwelling, go to INDIAN CLIFF DWELLING<\/a>. (IMAGE: Indian Cliff Dwelling, general view. [indian_cliff_01.jpg]<\/em>)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n JULY 2019 \u201cWe were at once struck with its strategic position \u2026 Though we knew of no means of getting it, it seemed such an ideal location for a school that we \u201cmade believe\u201d we could have most of the land in sight, though with hardly a glimmering hope of its actuality. We laid out \u201chouse seats\u201d on the little low spurs projecting from the foot of the mountain, we planted crops and set out orchards in the bottom- land \u2026 We planned a reservoir on the mountainside to catch the waters of a splendid limestone branch that came down the mountains under the spruce pines. In short, we spent three hours playing at the impossible, making believe at something too good to be true. And then at sunset, we walked up the valley under young oaks rarely colored to the quaint old-fashioned home of Mr. and Mrs.William Creech <\/em>[Uncle William and Aunt Sal] whose simple goodness and kindly courtesy were like an evening benediction<\/em>.\u201d more \u2026<\/a> (IMAGE: Distant view of woman walking on a dirt road.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n MAY 2019 APRIL 2019 MARCH 2019<\/strong> \u201c\u2026 \u201cI am truly honored. Having grown up in Harlan County. I often wondered if there was a future for me here. My experience at Pine Mountain has reinforced what I always knew to <\/em>be true, there is a future for Harlan County and the region, and that Pine Mountain is uniquely positioned to pave the way forward\u2026 I\u2019m excited about the trajectory of the School and look forward to working with you all to carry out your remarkable mission.<\/em>\u201d MORE \u2026<\/a>\u00a0(IMAGE: Preston Jones.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n LATEST BIOGRAPHY: EVE NEWMAN<\/a> – Katherine Pettit and Ethel de Long were fortunate that, in 1913, Eve Newman followed them from Hindman Settlement School to assist in the establishment of the new Pine Mountain Settlement School. Not only was Miss Newman an adept fundraiser and office and field secretary but, due to her lively and amiable personality, easily made friends with the PMSS \u201cfamily\u201d and community.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Using information from the PMSS archives, found mostly in the Marguerite Butler letters<\/a>, the biography describes Miss Newman\u2019s experiences with her friends, such as sleeping in a tent, planning for classes, riding muleback over the mountains and hiking 20 miles \u201cdown Greasy.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Eve Newman\u2019s biography provides further information from \u201cThe Newman Aunts,\u201d a website about six Newman sisters, including Eve, who grew up in the early years of the 20th century. Eve Newman\u2019s pages track her life and career before, during and after Pine Mountain. The site was written by the sisters\u2019 great-great-niece who graciously gave us permission to borrow details about Miss Newman. All of the sisters\u2019 biographies are inspiring and intriguing stories of women during the Progressive Era.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n FEBRUARY 2019<\/strong> VALENTINES FROM THE PAST<\/a> – In various ways, the PMSS staff, students and community of the past have sent us valentines. Through letters, narratives, publications, photographs and reports, they told us who they were and how they lived and worked. And throughout the 100-plus years of the Pine Mountain Settlement School\u2019s existence, forward-thinking people saved these treasures so that succeeding generations may gain a deeper understanding of days gone by. To celebrate Valentine\u2019s Day, enjoy these valentines from the past<\/a> \u2026 about valentines.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n JANUARY 2019 This month we are sharing over 30 calendars created from 1914 until 1977. What stories can you see in these temporal keepers of history? How do the annual summaries below speak to the calendars?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Each school year has its own page. To view any of the 145 pages, go to GUIDE TO HISTORY PMSS Summaries 1937-2000<\/a> and click on the school year of your interest. DECEMBER 2018 The NATIVITY PLAY<\/a>, an annual event at Pine Mountain Settlement School, was snowed out for a performance this year. For those who did not get to experience one of the iconic events at the school, you may visit the following pages for a sampling of Christmas at Pine Mountain across a century of celebration\u2026. and make your plans for 2019.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Guide to CHRISTMAS AT PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION – During the Winter months at Pine Mountain, the interns and staff catch their breath in the sharp, fresh air of the valley and start planning for the next year\u2019s programs. Environmental Education has always been the backbone of programming at the school since the early 1970s. In the Archive we have begun to gather material from the earliest years to assist our programming staff at the School but we thought you might like to see where we have been digging in the archive. The Guide to Environmental Education<\/a> will take you to some of the corners we have explored in the archive. If you participated in any of the early EE programs you may want to explore the photographs in 029 V EE Indians and Settlers<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n GUIDE TO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION (ee) 1972- Present\u00a0<\/a> NOVEMBER 2018<\/strong> The number of Family pages continues to grow. Since we introduced this series in WHAT\u2019S NEW! in June 2018, we\u2019ve added many more families and updated others. We welcome corrections or additional information from readers. Here are the latest:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n BOGGS FAMILY<\/a> For a complete list with links to the pages, go to Guide to FAMILIES IN PINE MOUNTAIN VALLEY COMMUNITY<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n OCTOBER 2018<\/strong> John Dewey noted: \u201cTo keep the eyes on the book and the ears open to the teacher\u2019s words is a mysterious source of intellectual grace.\u201d<\/em> Everett Wilson, author and teacher, knew how to spread grace all around in this small instructional book. (IMAGE: Print Shop, c. 1942: Student at printing press (1). Harmon Fdn. movie still. [pm_harm_094.jpg)<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n KITTY RITCHIE<\/a> – Kitty Ritchie came from one of the most well-known ballad-singing families of Kentucky. Music was central to the lives of the Ritchie family. They sang as they went about their house and gardening chores and at family gatherings, a custom that continues to this day. Kitty\u2019s youngest sister, Jean Ritchie, became the most well-known of her siblings as a commercial performer, author, recording artist, composer and folk music collector.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Kitty was born the sixth of 14 children and was one of six Ritchie siblings who attended Pine Mountain School throughout the 1920s. After graduating from Pine Mountain School, Kitty went on to study at Berea (Kentucky) College.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Several of the Ritchies were adept at spinning, weaving, quilting, and basket making. Kitty and her sister Mallie learned from their older sister, May Belle Ritchie (Deschamps<\/a>) a very special craft that she first saw at Hindman Settlement School. It consisted of the construction of dolls, usually in pioneer costume averaging 10 inches in height, from corn shucks, the dried leaves or \u201chusks\u201d of corn cobs. The Ritchies\u2019 talents have long been widely admired and are kept alive by the succeeding generations of the Ritchie family to this day. Read more about Kitty Ritchie and the Ritchie family at: KITTY RITCHIE<\/a> and MAY RITCHIE<\/a>. (IMAGE: Ritchie family crafts. [dolls_baskets_009.jpg]<\/em>)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n [BLOG] DANCING IN THE CABBAGE PATCH: Stones, More Stones, and Scalloped Potatoes<\/a> – Pine Mountain\u2019s dance with stones started very early as this excerpt from a 1914 letter describes:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u201cAnother piece of economy has been the application of the two-birds-with-one-stone theory to the loose stones on our cultivable ground. We have secured building material for two sanitary closets and a fine tool house by gathering wagon loads of obstructive stone from our potato fields. As to rocks, we still have more worlds to conquer and we shall use them for building and retaining walls, paving, and roads.\u201d Stone soup, dry stack walls, scalloped potatoes, limestone kilns, and more stone stories are included in this blog about Pine Mountain\u2019s stone gifts and obstacles. SEPTEMBER 2018<\/strong>
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1930s – I took two major steps to remedy the situation: (1) Modify the curriculum (2) Annual Youth Guidance Institute …<\/em>”
(IMAGE: A student makes a purchase from two others behind the counter.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nWHAT’S NEW! ARCHIVE 2020<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/strong>CHRISTMAS At Pine Mountain Settlement School GUIDE<\/a> – A guide to archival resources for the NATIVITY PLAY<\/a>, MUMMERS PLAY<\/a>, CHRISTMAS CARDS,<\/a> CHRISTMAS SANTA,<\/a> CHRISTMAS HOLLY AND THE IVY<\/a> and other highlights of the Christmas season at Pine Mountain Settlement School, Harlan County, Kentucky, 1920s – 1940s.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/strong>A LOVE STORY – MAY RITCHIE<\/a> and LEON DESCHAMPS<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
And the kisses I gave her was one, two, three
Saying I am the man that they call John Riley
Returning home to marry thee.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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<\/strong>HISTORIES 1899 A Novel Excursion by Maria McVay –<\/a> An interesting 1898 camping trip taken by Katherine Pettit and 19 others to Eastern Kentucky. Organized by Berea College, this trip led to Pettit’s founding of Pine Mountain Settlement School in 1913.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSEPTEMBER 2020<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
DEAR FRIEND LETTERS – INDEX 1911 – 1971<\/a> – “DEAR FRIEND” LETTERS come in many forms. Explore the history of Pine Mountain through its appeal letters from the 1918 pandemic to the early 1980s, as the world changed. The letters capture the resilient and resourceful character of mountain families through those years of change.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/strong>MARGARET MOTTER Talk: “Mixin’ Larns Both Parties”<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/strong>OLIVE COOLIDGE<\/a> Nurse’s Assistant – Olive (“Oggy”) Coolidge came to Pine Mountain in 1941 soon after graduating from Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She was familiar with Southern Appalachia not only through her studies in sociology but more importantly through her aunt, Olive Dame Campbell, founder of the John C. Campbell Folk School Olive Coolidge’s PMSS work as a nurse’s assistant was unlike anything she had experienced in her young life. Read the details concerning her work assignments, her life after Pine Mountain (including a return to college in 1968 at age 48), and her correspondence<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/strong>DIS-EASE<\/a> – THE PANDEMIC OF 1918-19 IN THE APPALACHIAN COALFIELDS: The Appalachian coalfields, the Settlement Movement, and transnationalism. (IMAGE: Three men carrying sick person on litter in wooded setting.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/strong>EARTH – \u201cSome things never change.\u201d BUT SOMETIMES THEY DO.
MARY ROGERS<\/a> Biography and EARTH DAY 2020<\/a> – <\/strong>(IMAGE: Mary Rogers.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A BRAVE AND IMAGINATIVE PLAN TAKES SHAPE: Lewis Lyttle \u2013 A Key Player in the Founding of PMSS<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/strong>HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET OF YOUTH UPON THE MOUNTAIN<\/a> – <\/em>The optimism of youth in wartime from the publication Conifer<\/em> edited by the students at Pine Mountain Settlement School in 1944. Lessons for hard times and good times. (IMAGE: Students dancing in a circle under blossoming trees.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/strong>SALAMANDERS – Limestone Creek is a favorite salamander hideaway at Pine Mountain where, in 1927, herpetologist Clifford H. Pope<\/a> gathered his specimens for the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. (IMAGES: Color photo of creek in woods; Path to the Infirmary (Hill House). Fall 2014. Photo: H. Wykle<\/em>)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
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<\/strong>PINE MOUNTAIN\u2019S RARE BIRD \u2013 SUTTON\u2019S WARBLER<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
that cuts the airy way,
Is an immense world of delight,
clos\u2019d by your senses five?<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
(IMAGE: Sutton\u2019s Warbler as depicted in the article by Thomas R. Henry in the Snowy Egret, 1942,Vol 16 No. 1.<\/em>)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/strong>“THE WORLD IS SMALL\u201d GRACE FENG LIU<\/a> – Grace Feng came to Pine Mountain to serve as a volunteer summer worker to relieve the School nurse, Grace Rood<\/a>. Her brief stay of two summers left an indelible memory on many in the community.
(IMAGE: Grace Feng Liu)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/strong>STREAM ECOLOGY HOPSCOTCH – Have you been to Pine Mountain Settlement School and wondered about this lovely mosaic mural on the playground. It has a history and a purpose. Do you know the rules of Hopscotch? Part of a county-wide art project federally and locally funded, the children\u2019s game physically guides students through the many critters that live in the streams at the School ...read more<\/a> \u2026 (IMAGE: Color photo of mosaic.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/strong>INDIAN CLIFF AND EXPLORATION – In 1923, three men who shared a keen interest in the sites of prehistoric native peoples came to Pine Mountain Settlement School (PMSS) to excavate the Indian Cliff Dwelling on the School\u2019s property. When the overhanging rock shelter, located across the road from the entrance to PMSS, was discovered by a student to have ancient bones, Co-Director Katherine Pettit quickly summoned William D. Funkhouser, a zoology professor at the University of Kentucky (UK), knowing of his interest in responsible and careful archaeological exploration. He, in turn, invited Dr. Arthur M. Miller, a UK geologist and Victor K. Dodge, a Lexington businessman, to join him in a systematic excavation.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/strong>DEAR FRIEND LETTER, 1911 (Hindman<\/a>) – PROSPECTING PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL –\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/strong>GLYN MORRIS 1931-1941 General Review for Board of Trustees on Work at Pine Mountain<\/a> – Glyn Morris arrived at Pine Mountain at the age of 26 to assume the role of Director of PMSS. An immigrant from Wales, a graduate of Union Theological School in New York City, short and opinionated, it would seem that he would be challenged at every level. He was. Yet, Pine Mountain had ten of the most successful years in its history \u2026<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/strong>MARY ROGERS AND EARTH DAY<\/a> – March 21. It was the time of Equinox when night and day are of equal length and when the earth seems to hesitate in its spin as it slips into the longer communion with the sun. In 1983, on March 21, Mary Rogers slipped away to what she called her \u201csub specie aeternitatis<\/em>\u201d [Latin for \u201cunder the aspect of eternity\u2019] By 1983, March 21 had already been changed to April 22 as the universal date of Earth Day, but, Mary Rogers, now beyond time, was on a new adventure. Her Earth Days, 365 of them in nearly every year of her life were now seeds in the minds of those she touched in her lifetime. Her small collection of notes gathered as \u201cSeed Notes\u201d record her love of nature and her deeply spiritual reflections on her love of the earth. (IMAGE: Glyn Morris playing the violin to students seated around him.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
NEW LEADERSHIP: PRESTON JONES<\/a>, an energetic and productive innovator, says of his new leadership role,\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
[BLOG] DANCING IN THE CABBAGE PATCH Cows<\/a> – Living with cows is a journey not to be taken lightly. Ruminating bovines need careful cultivation if they are to share their space and their milk with their owners. These authors<\/a> offer a few suggestions. (IMAGE: Boy milking cow. [mccullough_IV_235b.jpg])<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/strong>CALENDARS<\/a> – New Years start with new calendars and the calendars of Pine Mountain Settlement School tell us much about the people, the history, and the desires of the School. Taken as a whole the calendars of Pine Mountain create memories of the past, acknowledgment of now, and imaginations of futures. In our here and now, calendars are arrows to past, and to future. And, most importantly, calendars capture in our now<\/em>, a range of personal viewpoints as each calendar creator and viewer aims their own \u201carrow of time.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
(IMAGE: Calendar for Oct, Nov., Dec., with Spelman sketch of houses, road and horse.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\n\r\nWHAT’S NEW! ARCHIVE 2018<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/strong>IN MEMORIAM: BEN BEGLEY (1952- Dec. 2018)<\/a> – On December 12, 2013, Kentucky State Nature Preservation Committee bestowed its highest honor, the 2013 Biological Diversity Protection Award, to Ben and Pat Begley. The award was given in recognition of their 28-year tenure teaching environmental science to more than 75,000 students at Pine Mountain Settlement School. Ben left a legacy of hard work, expertise, and dedication that still forms a foundation for the Environmental Education Program at Pine Mountain Settlement School. (IMAGE: Ben Begley.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
029 V ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Indians and Settlers<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/strong>UPDATE: FAMILIES IN THE PINE MOUNTAIN VALLEY COMMUNITY – Since the Families project began in May 2018, a total of 30 Family pages have been published. Each page brings together information about a family whose members share a common surname (or variant spelling thereof). They are families who have ties to the Pine Mountain valley community in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Each Family page includes photographs and historical highlights, as well as members who were community residents, PMSS workers and PMSS students based on information that has been recorded on the PMSS Collections website.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
BROWNING FAMILY<\/a>
CALLAHAN FAMILY<\/a>
CAUDILL FAMILY<\/a>
COMBS FAMILY<\/a>
COOTS FAMILY<\/a>
COUCH FAMILY<\/a>
CREECH FAMILY HIGHLIGHTS<\/a>
WILLIAM & SALLY CREECH FAMILY<\/a>
ELY FAMILY<\/a>
ENIX FAMILY<\/a>
HALL FAMILY<\/a>
HOWARD FAMILY<\/a>
HUFF FAMILY<\/a>
JACKSON FAMILY<\/a>
LEWIS FAMILY<\/a>
LEWIS FAMILY, Dosha, John Clyde, Rhoda<\/a>
NOLAN FAMILY<\/a>
SHELL FAMILY<\/a>
STURGILL FAMILY<\/a>
WILDER FAMILY<\/a>
WOOTON (WOOTEN) FAMILY
WOOTON FAMILY STUDENTS<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/strong>EVERETT K. WILSON \u201cA Pine Mountain Study in Civics\u201d 1937<\/a> – A hand-bound booklet that aimed to prepare students to become civic-minded contributors to their community and culturally experienced adventurers in the progress of humanity.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/em>— Nov. 14, 1914, Letter to Friends from Ethel de Long<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
(IMAGE: \u201c<\/em>Helen Wilmer Stone<\/em><\/a>.\u201d on a stone-strewn path. [047_IV_FN_03a_024.jpg]<\/em>)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/strong>PACK HORSE LIBRARIANS – Want to learn more about some of the early Pack Horse Librarians at Pine Mountain Settlement that were recently featured in the new Kitchen Sisters Podcast series, THE KEEPERS Podcast #2 \u201cThe Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky\u201d<\/a>?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n