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| Repository: | Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection |
| Creator: | Kathryn E. Parke |
| Title: | Collection 190. Kathryn Parke Collection of Papers, 1926 - 1987 |
| Language of Material: | Material in English |
| Location: | For current information on the location of these materials, please consult Appalachian State University. |
| Abstract: | The Kathryn Parke Collection of Papers contains collected materials from John C. Campbell Folk School, Highlander Center, and other folk schools. |
| Extent: | 0.5 linear feet, 1 archival box |
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[Identification of item], Collection 190. Kathryn Parke Collection of Papers, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, NC, USA.
Provenance is unknown. This collection was opened to the public on 26 March 2003.
Processed by Deborah Bell, 1994; Kathryn Staley, 26 March 2003
Encoded by Kathryn Staley, 29 June 2005
Kathryn E. Parke worked as a professor at New York State University College at Cobleskill. She graduated from Smith College in 1936 and was interested in Scandinavian folk schools and attended Ringerike folkehoegskole in Hoenefoss, Norway. She held many offices in the Folk-College Association of America and worked as the editor of its newsletter, Options. Kathryn E. Parke wrote Folk-spirit in modern Irish drama (1936), Norway's folk-high-schools: report of a sabbatical experience (1963), The Folk-College in America: A working-paper for the Folk-College Association of America (1977). She retired to Black Mountain, North Carolina.
Included in this collection are newsletters from various folk-oriented or Appalachian organizations, such as Options, Highlander Reports, and the Appalachian Center of Berea College's News Letter. Other materials include bibliographies of Appalachian Studies books, booklets and documents about folk traditions, and brochures on Berea College. Also included are two letters addressed to Kathryn Parke.
The Kathryn Parke Collection of Papers is organized into five series: Series 190A. John C. Campbell Folk School Series; Series 190B. Highlander Center; Series 190C. Folk-College Association of America; Series 190D. Berea College; Series 190E. Miscellaneous (Appalachian Studies Bibliography and Curriculum, Brochures, Correspondence, Excerpted Articles, Handouts, Souvenir Program). Legal-sized and oversized documents are stored separately.
| Berea College |
| Education -- Appalachian Region, Southern |
| Folk-College Association of America |
| Folk high schools |
| Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.) |
| John C. Campbell Folk School |
| Parke, Kathryn |
