Berea College Archives
@bereaarchives.bsky.social
Archive boxes full of preserved stories, sights and sounds from the Appalachian region. Home to the bell hook papers and the Janis Ian Archives.
https://libraryguides.berea.edu/archives
https://libraryguides.berea.edu/archives
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...
January 4, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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...
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...
December 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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...
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...
December 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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...
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....
December 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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....
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...
December 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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...
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...
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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...
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!
November 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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!
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
November 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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
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...
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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...
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.
October 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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.
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.
October 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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.
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
October 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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
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...
October 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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...
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!
October 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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!
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...
October 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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...
. @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.
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.
October 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
. @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.
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.
October 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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.
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...
September 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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...
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...
September 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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...
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...
September 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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...
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...
September 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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...
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...
August 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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...
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!
August 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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!
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...
August 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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...
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.
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August 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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.
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