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Pikeville College Teachers, Early 1920s
No full textFront Row, left to right: Sarah Wilson from PA (Became Mrs. Collis P. Hudson, later Mrs. Melvin Voice of Florida); William McKinley Justice (taught 8th grade, also teachers who came in for normal school training); Ruth Greer, daughter of R.T. Greer, sister to Faye Sharpe, married Louis Crane; David Noble (came from Moody Bible Institute); Bess Craig from Grove City, PA (English and history teacher); Wendell "Maggie" Magee of Slippery Rock, PA (basketball coach); either Miss Odom (Spanish teacher) or Miss Hazlett or a grade school teacher - Back Row, left to right: Mr. Allen Starke (Dr. Record's secretary, also typing teacher); Miss Frances Crane from PA (chaperoned girls and was music teacher); Miss Alice Record, in front of Mr. Riddle (daughter of Dr. Record, taught Latin); English Hammet Kendrick (daughter of Dr. J. Harvey Hammet, one-time President of Pikeville College and wife of Tobias James Kendrick, who taught primary grades); Jean Auxier of Pikeville (Latin teacher
Laying of the Cornerstone of Adminstration Building, 1925
No full textOn back of image: Dr. James F. Record (president of college) at right (of those standing.) -- Rev. E. L. Howerton, long-time minister of First Baptist Church in Pikeville, stands second from left. Can anyone identify the others - or the children? (Aren't they precious? - they may be some of the leading citizens of the town!) -- Mrs. Delos O. Wickham of New York City and Mrs. Mary Thaw prime givers. The individuals, l to r: Dr. Edgar P. Hill, Secretary of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church, Rev. Layton Howerton, Pastor of the Baptist Church, Mr. Gillies, Officer of the McKenney Steel Corporation, Dr. James F. Record, President of Pikeville College
Page 2, Folk Tales of the Cumberlans
No full textA book of collected essays on life in the Appalachian mountains, created by the English Eleven students of Pikeville College, circa 1927
Page 7, Folk Tales of the Cumberlans
No full textA book of collected essays on life in the Appalachian mountains, created by the English Eleven students of Pikeville College, circa 1927.SPLASH DAM
By Victor Ramsey
From about 1850 to 1900 my grandfather followed logging on Long Fork.
H would hire men to cut the timber and haul it to the creek bank with
oxen.
After they got enough logs to make a raft they would put them in the
creek and let them float out to the river, and here there were men in
boats to catch the logs and make the rafts.
when the water was low they couldn’t run logs very well so they built
what is known as a “splash dam” which is a dam arranged so you can
loosen a latch on it and allow all the water dammed up to go through
at once. This gets enough water to float the logs. They keep repeat-
ing this operation till the logs are carried down stream to water suf-
ficient to carry them on.
At first in putting a raft together they ran strips along on top of the
logs and augured holes in strips and logs and drove wooden pegs in the
holes in order to hold the logs together. Later they used chains.
They would float the logs to Cattlesburg and sell them.
This old splash dam, or the remnants of it, still stands on Long Fork.
THE COUNTRY SCHOOL
By Mrs. Hazel Kazee Hunter
Have you ever gone to school in a one-room school in the rural district
of Kentucky? That is one of the mountaineer’s special privileges,
which for no good reason that I can see has caused mountaineers to be
pitied.
The school house is usually situated as near the center of the commun-
ity as possible, but because of the widely separated homes some of the
children come from two or three miles up or down the creek. This one room
houses the eight elementary grades. The windows are usually line
ed up down one side of the building, the black board on the other.
As you enter the door of the building, the seats which are sometimes
Benches are facing the teacher’s desk.
In one corner of the room there is the inevitable pot-bellied heating
stove. In winter it’s round sides are rosy and he who sets close that
favored corner soon becomes so warm that he either goes to sleep or
wiggles around until he must stand on the floor. Near the teachers
desk is the stand on which is a bucket with a tin dipper and near this
a bench on which are lined tin lunch boxes and buckets of every des-
cription.
To the pupils, chiefend, aim, and glory of the country school seems to
be recess. In the warmer months the children roam over the hill-sides,
playing cowboy, gathering wild haws, golden rods and every known wild
flower for “teacher,” and exchanging apples, cookies and gossip. In
games; such as base, tag, going to New York, Marching around the levee,
and needle’s eye. Recess is fifteen to forty-five minutes long, de-
pending on what the teacher has to interest him. When the bell fin-
ally rings, there is a shuffling, milling, toestamping crowd about the
stove if it happens to be cold, or if the weather is warm, a flushed
and fanning crowd of children.
The highest honor any pupil can attain is “turning down the room,” in
spelling match. These matches are some times held on Friday after-
noons, sometimes at night when all the best spellers of the community
come to take part. The words are given out to the opposing sides, or
teams selected alternately by the captain of each side. The team with
the last speller on the floor wins.
The picturesque country school to which so many of us can trace the
beginning of our scholastic careers is rapidly being replaced by big-
ger and better consolidated schools, where such things as paper-wads,
fist-fights, and tin lunch pails are ruled out. Personally, I’m glad
I had the privilege of going to school in the “little red school
house.
Page 27, Folk Tales of the Cumberlans
No full textA book of collected essays on life in the Appalachian mountains, created by the English Eleven students of Pikeville College, circa 1927.Each person takes something big enough to hold as many chestnuts as he
expects to get. As soon as you get there you find chestnuts scattered
all over the ground and everyone grabs for the chestnuts just as fast
as they can. A person is out of luck if he can’t pick them up fast be-
cause they will all be gone before he gets very many, especially, if
there is a fast picker in the crowd. When all the chestnuts on the
ground have been picked up, someone usually knocks some off the tree by
throwing rocks at them. When they have been picked up everyone starts
home eating chestnuts.
AN OLD FASHIONED SINGING SCHOOL
By Birdie Murphy
At the beginning of the twentieth century about the only amusement in a small neighborhood was the singing school.
This school was called “A Subscription Singing School.” The cost for
each member was usually one dollar for ten lessons. And the teacher was a traveler, that is, he went from place giving lessons in singing.
The time of meeting was usually every Saturday afternoon. And the peo- ple gathered in to have a good time and learn what they could about
music. The teacher taught the shaped-notes, sometimes called “the flat-notes.” What we now call soprano was known as treble and the tenor was Then called, “soprano.” They very seldom had any alto, but the men en- joyed singing base. Thirty members made a large school.
The teacher would give each group its sound and they would repeat it.
Then the fun began. The teacher always asked the singers to watch the beat, and the motion of his body would have made a monkey laugh. But
the singers thought him a learned man and marveled at his actions.
CORN ROASTING
By Edith Walters
Corn roasting is another of the many festivals which gave young people of early days a chance to get to-gether.
Corn roastings were held in late summer of early fall. When the corn is in the roasting stage it is gathered and brought to a selected place where the boys have brought wood and made a fire. While the fire is burning down to a bed of coals the corn is prepared and then it is laid on the coals and roasted. Of course the corn has to be turned frequent- ly to keep from burning.
While waiting for the corn to roast the boys and girls sit around the fire and sing, talk, and tease each other.
When the corn is thoroughly roasted it is raked from the fire, “shucked” and eaten from the cob. It tastes more than good.
About seventeen years ago, a young lady was visiting one of her friends at Pikeville
My Uncle gave a corn roasting in her honor and invited a crowd of his friends. What a time they had laughing and talking and singing. There was Virgie, Mat, June, Mae, Helen, Tom, John, Jim and many others.
The next morning one of the tenants came down the road very much excited. He told grandfather that somebody had been in his cornfield and gather- ed a lot of corn and it looked as if the hogs had been eating it.
A BEAN STRINGING
By Majorie Martin
One day old Mrs. Thacker decided to have a bean stringing since she had a lot of beans drying up and she didn’t want them to go to waste. She told her husband, Tom, to go over and tell Mayor Tuttle. Miranda and her two sisters and all the rest of the neighbors to come over to her hose tomorrow night to a bean stringing. Every one was glad for they know they would got to be with their old friends and the best thing of all the stroll home after the bean stringing in the moon light after one or two o’clock in the morning.
The next day Mrs. Thackers, Tom, and his two oldest sons picked beans al
1968-69 Pikeville College Baseball
No full textFirst Row: Paul Slater, Catcher; John Sammons, Right Field; Ray Bedsaul, Outfield; B. J. Elswick, Left Field; Ralph Compton, Center Field; Bill Allara, Pitcher; and Paul May, Outfield. Second Row: Steve Butcher, Shortstop; Dennis Miller, Pitcher; Jim Kreutzer, 1st Base; Harold Birchfield, Center Field and Left Field; Dennis Bunnell, Pitcher; Sherman Combs, 3rd Base; and Dave mcBrayer, 2nd Base.First Row: Paul Slater, Catcher; John Sammons, Right Field; Ray Bedsaul, Outfield; B. J. Elswick, Left Field; Ralph Compton, Center Field; Bill Allara, Pitcher; and Paul May, Outfield. Second Row: Steve Butcher, Shortstop; Dennis Miller, Pitcher; Jim Kreutzer, 1st Base; Harold Birchfield, Center Field and Left Field; Dennis Bunnell, Pitcher; Sherman Combs, 3rd Base; and Dave mcBrayer, 2nd Base