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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Lunch and Learn about the Adaptive Climbers Festival Photograph Exhibit and Oral History Collection. Hutchins Library, this coming Monday, October 19th 11:45-1:00. libraryguides.berea.edu/c.php?g=1463...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Continuing through October: an exhibit featuring photographs and interactive “audio panels” using content from the Adaptive Climbers Festival Oral History Project. libraryguides.berea.edu/c.php?g=1463...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Join us tomorrow at 1 PM as Hutchins Library celebrates the publishing of Berea College: An Illustrated History, 2nd Edition. Shannon Wilson, Kim Kobersmith and Chad Berry will speak about the book. FREE and open to all.

Poster featuring the cover image of the book Berea College: An Illustrated History, 2nd Edition.

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New in the archives: a photograph of 1915 Berea College Normal School graduate James Garfield Durham (1881-1951). Durham was a member of the Berea Foundation School faculty from 1911 to 1951.

Former Foundation School faculty member James Garfield Durham, 1915 Berea College Normal School graduate

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Remembering Dolly Parton and the song that Dolly and Janis Ian recorded together: "My Tennessee Hills" (youtu.be/Gsy8S-q1XkU?...). A temporary exhibit of Dolly Parton related items from the Janis Ian Archives is open at Hutchins Library. Come take a look!

A signed photograph of Dolly Parton and Janis Ian. Source: Janis Ian Archives, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Berea, KY.

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Remembering Dolly Parton: Dolly joined Janis Ian on "My Tennessee Hills" in Ian's 2004 album, Billie's Bones. Dolly-related items from the Janis Ian Archives are currently on display in Hutchins Library. You can listen to the song at janisian.com/music/billie....

Dolly Parton related items from the Janis Ian Archives on display at Hutchins Library, Berea College, September 2026.

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Berea College Special Collections and Archives reading room will be open 10 am to 5 pm Monday through Friday this semester (holidays excepted). Many journeys of discovery await! In the photo: Carter G. Woodson (Berea '1903) documents and publications. #archives #Berea #Kentucky #Appalachia

Documents and publications associated with Berea College graduate Carter G. Woodson.

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Continuing throughout September: An archival exhibit honoring the 40th anniversary of the Berea Arts Council. To learn about BAC's archives, follow this link: bereaarchives.libraryhost.com/repositories... #art #archives #Berea #Kentucky

documents and artifacts within cases, posters on the back wall

Tall exhibition case filled with artifacts documenting the work of the Berea Arts Council and their organizational records preserved at Hutchins Library

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Weekly events: Play Janis Ian's Martin D-18 guitar (Tuesdays @ 2 PM) and take a St. John's Bible tour (Thursdays @ 2 PM) in Special Collections and Archives. For details, see libraryguides.berea.edu/news/blog.

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This week's opening in the Berea Heritage Edition St. John's Bible, Hebrews 1-3, includes two dragonflies. What a summery feeling! Drop by Hutchins Library to view this volume or all seven.

Two-page opening in the St. John's Bible, Hebrews 1-3, featuring dragonfly ornamentation.

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A new 2-case exhibit by student (now graduate!) Chloe Spitzer has opened in the Special Collections and Archives gathering space. This summer we invite you to learn about the lives of President Francis Hutchins and Dr. Louise Gilman Hutchins through archival images, documents and artifacts.

Exhibit title panel featuring text "Francis and Louise Gilman Hutchins" and images of flowers and a blue (Berea) bear.

Images of flowers and two paragraphs of introductory text.

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Please note our April 17 speaker time change: this event will begin at 2 PM.

Berea College Special Collections and Archives welcomes you to hear visiting scholar Jennifer Freeman Marshall, PhD, of Purdue University reflect on her recent bell hooks papers residency. April 17 at 2:00 PM in Hutchins Library Special Collections and Archives reading room.

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Come join us April 25 at the Bucolics Project concert and April 27 at a follow-up workshop. Both events are free and open to the public @bereacollege.bsky.social. #music #poetry #archives

The Bucolics Project poster featuring a collage of images and texts.

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

For Fiddle Tune Friday, some Berea students give a nod to Bluegrass Music with Bill Monroe’s Get Up John. berea.access.preservica.com/uncategorize...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Did you know Jesse Jackson delivered a powerful Berea College convocation in September 1998? You can watch this speech here. berea.access.preservica.com/uncategorize... #exploreyourarchive #archive30 #archives

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Dr. Jaleesa Wells | BossiRainbow® @jaleesaphd.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Remembering that time I mapped a bunch of archive collections focused of Black cultures across the globe. This is still a work in progress. What’s more Black History Month than a big map of global Black history? padlet.com/drjaleesawel...

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Black Cultural Archives

Created by Dr. Jaleesa Renee Wells (updated May 30, 2024); https://www.drjaleesawells.com/culturalarchives

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

We are pleased to announce the opening of the Cleophus Charles and Rosa Lee Charles papers. To learn more about this archival collection, view the finding aid at bereaarchives.libraryhost.com/repositories.... Both served @bereacollege.bsky.social for many years beginning in 1973. #bereabeloved

Formal portrait of Rosa Lee Charles and Cleo Charles sitting together

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Dr. Jaleesa Wells | BossiRainbow® @jaleesaphd.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Art quilting is giving me greater insight and visual vocabulary about memory, lineage, and the quiet ways we stay connected across time. If you’re someone who listens for stories in the seams, I’m sharing these epiphanies alongside my exhibition in collab with Berea College Archives.

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The Threshold

An introduction to the stories, histories, and creative processes underlying Onyx Patchworks, where quilts function as portals into memory, lineage, and learning.

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

A reminder: Please join us this evening for the opening of a new, interactive exhibition combining art, archives, memory games, and African American history. The event is free and open to the public.

Poster with exhibition title and details on the left and a circular picture on the right showing quilted history game pieces.

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Applications for the 2026 Berea College Media Archives Fellowship are now being received. The fellowship supports research projects served by Berea’s extensive audio / video collections. libraryguides.berea.edu/aboutsca/MFh...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Fiddle Tune Friday looks forward to Old Christmas on January 6th with Breaking Up Christmas by the Whoopin' Hollar String Band at the 2006 Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music. dla.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

For Fiddle Tune Friday It Must Be Santa by the Berea College Bluegrass Music Ensemble recorded at the College’s 2009 Christmas Concert. dla.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

We're glad to announce the processing of the papers of Dr. L. Sue Greer-Pitt. Greer-Pitt is a retired Appalachia sociologist who taught at KCTCS, Whitesburg. You can explore her collection through this finding aid link: bereaarchives.libraryhost.com/repositories....

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Fiddle Tune Friday serves up two for the price of one with Angeline the Baker and Yellow Rose of Texas played by Jake Krack and Amber Field at the 2004 Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music. dla.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Fiddle Tune Friday, in solidarity with pardoned turkeys everywhere, presents Turkey In the Straw by Jim Stone and other family members recorded by John Harrod in Mount Sterling, Kentucky (Montgomery County) sometime in the [1980s]. dla.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Join us on Thursday, Dec. 4, at 5:30pm at the Boone Tavern Event Center as the Fall 2025 Berea Folklife apprentices & their mentor artists present on their fall apprenticeships in weaving, clawhammer banjo, contra dancing, Ballet Folklorico, and wild plant foraging & crafting. Dinner will be served!

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Did you know that 8 of our Latin Medieval Manuscripts are highlighted in the Peripheral Manuscripts Project? Follow this link digitalcollections.iu.edu/collections/... to see images and descriptions of these hand-written documents from the long ago. #bookhistory #medievalsky

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

For Fiddle Tune Friday it’s Shippingport played by John Harrod and Paul David Smith at the the Berea College 2005 Celebration of Traditional Music. dla.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Join us next Thurs. 11/6 at noon for a Library Lunch & Learn with composer & sound artist @bharnetty.bsky.social! He will discuss his new @uncpress.bsky.social book Noisy Memory, the 1st chapter of which details his work w/ recordings in Berea's Special Collections & Archives.

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Please join us November 6 at Noon for a presentation by sound artist, composer and author Brian Harnetty. Sponsored by Berea Folklife / Special Collections and Archives. Free lunch! Where?Hutchins Library Flex Space.

Poster advertising a lunch presentation by sound artist, composer, and author Brian Harnetty. Nov. 6, 2025 at Noon in Hutchins Library.

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

In today's American Archives Month Lunch Talk, Dr. Steve Gowler discussed his recently-published biography of abolitionist William Goodell (1792-1878). The book, Thoughts That Burned, was based in part on the Goodell family papers, shown here lined up in the reading room. @bereacollege.bsky.social

Archive boxes lined up on wooden tables in the Special Collections and Archives reading room, front view. (Photo by Lizzie Doerr)

Archive boxes lined up on wooden tables in the Special Collections and Archives reading room, side view. (Photo by Lizzie Doerr)

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

For Fiddle Tune Friday Foolery it’s Bile Them Cabbage Down by Homer Ledford 11-12-1993 as part of Loyal Jones’ retirement celebration. dla.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

In honor of Archives Month, on Oct. 16 Hutchins Library will present a lunch-and-learn book talk by Dr. Steve Gowler, author Thoughts That Burned: William Goodell, Human Rights, and the Abolition of American Slavery. Lunch begins at 11:45 AM. Please join us!

Poster inviting the public to attend an October 16 Lunch Talk by Dr. Steve Gowler who will discuss his recently published book Thoughts That Burned. Topics: Archives, William Goodell, human rights, and abolition of slavery in the USA.

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Fiddle Tune For Friday is Jesusita en Chihuahua (with some other instruments) by Berea College’s Mariach Berea at the groups 2025 Spring Concert. dla.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

. @denalisai.bsky.social is the author of Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance, based on the stories of 6 frontline resisters to the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Appalachia. Nalamalapu lives in SW Virginia and is originally from Southern Maine and Southern India.

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Join us at the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center on Wednesday, October 15 at 5:30pm for dinner and an author talk by climate organizer and comic artist Denali Sai Nalamalapu. The author talk is open to all.

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Fiddle Tune Friday brings you the Belle of Lexington by the Last Old Man (Larry Rader; Andrew Dunlap; Jim Costa; Tracy Schwartz). Recorded at the 2001 Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music. dla.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

For Fiddle Tune Friday September 19, 2025, its Arkansas Traveler by both Snuffy Jenkins and Pappy Sherrill with John Harrod at the 1987 Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music. dla.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Fiddle Tune Friday presents Sugar Tree Stomp by Ralph Blizzard and Phil Jamison. Recorded at the 1988 Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music. dla.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Fiddle Tune Friday tunes are Spootiskerry and Big John McNeil by the Berea College Bluegrass Music Ensemble 2025 Spring. dla.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll... and dla.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Fiddle tune Friday offers two for the price of one with Walter McNew (Rockcastle County and J.P. Fraley (Carter County) playing Chicken Reel. Recorded at Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky 8-31-1996. dla.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Join us on Thursday, Sept. 11 at 5:30pm in the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center as the Summer 2025 Berea Folklife apprentices and their mentor artists present on their summer apprenticeships in blacksmithing, storytelling, weaving, and mandolin luthiery. Dinner will be served!

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

For Fiddle Tune Friday it’s “River Bottom Breakdown” by Lloyd Baldwin. Recorded by Aisha Ivey 7-20-2013 in Branford, Florida. berea.access.preservica.com/uncategorize...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

For Fiddle Tune Friday its “Shove That Pig's Foot a Little Further Into the Fire” by Jim Morris. Recorded by Aisha Ivey 8-2-2013 in Springfield, West Virginia. berea.access.preservica.com/uncategorize...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Fiddle Tune Friday advises temperance in order to keep the dance going and still “Give the Fiddler A Dram”. Plaid by John Harrod and recorded by Aisha Ivey 7-29-2013 in Owen County, Kentucky. berea.access.preservica.com/uncategorize...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Fiddle Tune Friday, in today’s hot weather, finds it easy to empathize with the complaint “Hey Aunt Katie, There's a Bug On Me.” Played by Bob Murphy and recorded by Aisha Ivey in Coconut, Florida 8-25-2013. berea.access.preservica.com/uncategorize...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Fiddle Tune Friday offers a hefty desert of “Forty Weight of Gingerbread” by Lloyd Baldwin. Recorded July 20, 2013 in Gainesville, Florida by Aisha Ivey. berea.access.preservica.com/uncategorize...

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Fiddle tune Friday offers up a balanced diet of “Streak o' Lean, Streak o' Fat” played by Kerry Bletch (1947-2023). Recorded July 21, 2013 in Gainesville, Florida by Aisha Ivey. berea.access.preservica.com/uncategorize...

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