This collection is comprised of audio recorded interviews and field recordings of related campfire gatherings, meal times, and climbing activity. They were conducted October 10-12, 2024 by Emily Chen-Newton. The Adaptive Climbers Festival is a gathering of rock climbers with disabilities. Interviewees included climbers, guides, campground hosts and local business owners. 2024 was the third year the event was held in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge.
This series contains original audio and video interview recordings with transcriptions, of Berea citizens discussing race relations and the impact of the Civil Rights Movement conducted over the time period 1989-2001.
Video recorded interviews beginning in 2007, with Black Blount County, Tennessee residents who helped shape the community during and after the integration of the schools in 1969. Andrew Baskin recorded 36 additional interviews during 2017.
Interviews during 2005 documenting the Southern Maryland seafood industry.
Audio recorded interviews that document the history of the Disputanta community in northern Rockcastle County, Kentucky.
Interview recordings, interview logs / transcripts, photographs, and print material relating to the formation of the Knoxville, TN based Fellowship House organization and especially its integrated day camp operated 1950-1972.
Interviews during 2009 documenting the nature and extent of folk arts in Holmes County, Ohio.
Middletown School History Interviews 2006 / 2016
An interracial documentary project looking back 50 years on Mount Hope, West Virginia. (2017-2018)
Interviews during 2004 documenting the culture and history of each of the county's distinct river valleys and the county seat of Franklin.
Reading Local: Kentucky Rural Librarians
Interviews and photographs documenting the work and expressive culture of rural librarians in Kentucky (primarily in Appalachian counties). The project, which was directed by Berea College Folklorist Emily Hilliard, with research assistance from Berea student Sreekuttan Palakkadan Subash in Summer 2024, focuses on the role rural librarians serve as community resources, as well as how their workplaces—rural public libraries—are invaluable community hubs in remote rural areas. This collection includes recorded audio interviews and interview transcripts of 18 Kentucky rural librarians, and 158 related photos taken at 18 different libraries.
This project was supported by Berea College’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects program.
Interviews during 2005 documenting the multi ethnic folklife and local memory in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Multi-county interviews during 2007-2008 documenting such themes as Native American life, Revolutionary and Civil Wars, gristmills, waterways, slavery and the Underground Railroad, coal mining, timbering and the oil and gas boom, as well as family and community life.
Interviews during 2003 with residents of Virginia Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula for whom steamboating was a daily reality, those who worked on the boats and wharves, those who rode them as passengers and crew, and those who shipped produce and manufactured items or ordered goods for delivery.
Oral history interviews relating to Appalachian migrant organizations and eastern Kentucky coal company towns.
Series 10, Storytelling Project Interview Recordings
Interviews during 1996 documenting Underground Railroad activity in the upper Ohio River Valley.
Interviews during 1992-1993 documenting Wheeling, West Virginia culture, arts, work, and history.
