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.
Please note our April 17 speaker time change: this event will begin at 2 PM.
The Bucolics Project poster featuring a collage of images and texts.
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
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...
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
In case you missed this brilliant WKYT piece with @jaleesaphd.bsky.social #archive30 #exploreyourarchive
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?
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Formal portrait of Rosa Lee Charles and Cleo Charles sitting together
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
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.
Poster with exhibition title and details on the left and a circular picture on the right showing quilted history game pieces.
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.
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...
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...
Two closed archive boxes.
Two open archive boxes.
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...
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!
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...
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.
Poster advertising a lunch presentation by sound artist, composer, and author Brian Harnetty. Nov. 6, 2025 at Noon in Hutchins Library.
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.
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)
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...
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.
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...
On Thursday 10/16 Nalamalapu will host a social justice comic drawing workshop at 11:30am in Rogers-Traylor 211. Sign-up (via the QR code) is required for the workshop and space is limited; first preference will be given to students.
. @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.
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...
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...