Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 00: ARCHIVE
ARCHIVE 2025 Past Digital Additions
Aerial view of Pine Mountain Settlement School. Arthur W. Dodd Album. [dodd_A_005_mod.jpg]
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ARCHIVE 2025 Past Digital Additions
This ARCHIVE 2025 Past Digital Additions page is used to store former months of pages that had been updated or newly published on the PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL COLLECTIONS website in 2025. The list is in reverse chronological order.
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ARCHIVE 2025 Past Digital Additions
JULY 2025
7/26 Dr. EMMA and Dr. FRANCIS TUCKER Correspondence 1947 – Brief summaries and images of correspondence of wife-and-husband physicians who worked full-time and then summers at PMSS (1942-1951). Also, pages have been published for the following years: 1942, 1943, 1948.
7/25 GOVERNANCE 1988 By-Laws of PMSS – Transcription and images of the 1988 By-Laws of Pine Mountain Settlement School, containing institutional guidelines established by the Board. Subjects include policies for PMSS and Berea College relationship, Directors, Honorary Trustees, Board of Trustees officers, Executive Committee, Advisory Council, and by-law amendments.
7/23 GOVERNANCE 1913 de Long BOT Report May 24 – Transcription of one of the School’s earliest directors’ reports, covering staff activities and salaries, interaction with Berea College, sawmill, reservoir, land survey, and other campus updates.
7/20 ETHEL DE LONG ZANDE Talk 1916 “The School as a Community Center” – A transcription has been added to this page of the PMSS co-director’s talk. It was given at the Conference of Charities and Correction and later published in the conference’s “Proceedings.”
7/16 GOVERNANCE 1913 Pettit and de Long BOT Report July 9 – Transcription of one of the School’s earliest directors’ reports, covering gifts from donors, fundraising efforts, and campus updates.
7/14 GOVERNANCE 1913 de Long BOT Report October 31 – Transcription of a letter of updates during the first months of the School, apparently sent to PMSS Board Members. (Similar to an October 6, 1913, report.)
7/12 HENRY C. CREECH 1930-1934 Letters – Images and summaries of the letters of William Creech’s son, featuring his complaints to the Board about Director Glyn Morris, 1930-1934.
7/12 E. J. CARR PLANT CENTER Slide Cataloging Project – A topical list of general and specific subjects of the slides included in a botanical collection donated to PMSS in 1984 by Ellwood J. Carr, botanist and naturalist (1910-2005).
7/11 ARTS and CRAFTS Woodworking – Images and a description of the Woodworking Department at PMSS from the 1940s to the present and its popularity as industrial training for the students, as well as an enjoyable pastime for the community.
7/10 BEN BEGLEY Correspondence – Summaries and images of letters of a naturalist who served many years as a teacher and director of the PMSS Environmental Education program, 1986-2014.
7/10 Dr. EMMA and Dr. FRANCIS TUCKER Correspondence 1945 – Images and brief summaries of correspondence of wife-and-husband physicians about ending full-time work at PMSS and volunteering in summers.
7/09 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Brochure 1 – Images and transcription of a brochure introducing the PMSS Environmental Education, with sketches by Mary Rogers, an EE Founder. See also: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Brochure 2
7/07 ELIZABETH HENCH Correspondence 1921 – Images and transcriptions of letters between Trustee Elizabeth C. Hench and Co-Director Ethel de Long Zande about the School’s cows and work on mailings to raise funds for the cows.
7/02 LAND USE 2004 Water Management Planning – Transcriptions and images of the Five-Year Update Forms for Wellhead and Public Spring Protection Plans submitted by Pine Mountain Settlement.
JUNE 2025
6/27 FRANCES JEWELL McVEY Visitor – Biography of a writer, educator, and PMSS friend. Author of the 1934 magazine article,”The Blossom Woman,” a tribute to the accomplishments of Katherine Pettit.
6/26 ESTHER AND FRED BURKHARD Photographs PMSS People – A series of photographs taken by the Burkhards and other PMSS teachers in c. 1937-1940, depicting students, workers, and community members at work and at play.
6/25 ADMIN GENERAL 1945-1947 Correspondence External D.A.R. – Images and summaries of letters among PMSS staff and various heads of Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) chapters reflecting some of the tensions of post-war restructuring of D.A.R. and PMSS as they attempted to chart their future.
6/22 ADMIN GENERAL 1925-26, 1929 Correspondence External D.A.R. – Images and summaries of letters among PMSS staff and various heads of Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) chapters concerning fundraising, donations, and events.
6/21 GLENN ARGETSINGER 1929 Education Report – Transcription and images of a summary of an Antioch student teacher’s survey of seventh grade students using intelligence and achievement tests. The report was written by Angela Melville, PMSS Associate Director, for the Board of Trustees. It describes the survey’s purpose, procedure, indications, and significance, and recommends remedial actions. Attached to the report, and also transcribed, was a memorandum from Angela Melville, offering her recommendations for re-organization of the School.
6/19 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION 2015 PMSS EE Classes Before Revised Standards – Transcription and images of seven EE catalog pages. listing the extensive selection of Environmental Education classes before standards were revised.
6/18 CHARLES SHERMAN HAIGHT, Sr. Trustee – Biography of one of the earliest PMSS Board Member (1915). He was also an Admiralty Expert, Specialist on International Relations in Shipping, founder of a boys school, and Founder of Seamen’s Church Institute of New York and New Jersey.
6/15 GOVERNANCE 1913 Directors Annual Reports to BOT – Transcriptions have been added to this published page of reports to the PMSS Board of Trustees. They updated the board on the planning and construction of PMSS and were written by Co-directors Katherine Pettit and Ethel de Long.
6/03 HENRY MIXTER PENNIMAN Visitor – Biography of a Berea College professor who, in 1899, led a Berea group of nineteen and their drivers and guides on a horseback trip to Harlan County, Kentucky. The group ventured deep into the southeastern mountains of Kentucky to explore Appalachian culture. Among them were the well-known sociologist/geographer Ellen Churchill Semple,and Katherine Pettit before she was co-founder and co-director of PMSS.
6/01 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Case Statement “Nature/Culture” – Images of a 25-page paper proposing adaptations of the Environmental Education program, with handwritten annotations, c. 1987-1988.
MAY 2025
5/28 CELIA CATHCART Family Remembrance 1984 – Biography of a PMSS worker and trustee in the early years of PMSS, written in 1984 by her sons, Richard H. Holton and William C. Holton. See Also: CELIA CATHCART Staff Trustee – Biography.
5/26 DEAR FRIEND LETTERS 1913 December 6 – Transcription of a fundraising letter by PMSS Co-director Ethel de Long, describing the early days of establishing the School. (Images of the correspondence are missing.)
5/25 DEAR FRIEND LETTERS 1914 November 14 – Images, contents, and transcriptions of a “Dear Friend” fundraising letter, covering new PMSS houses, sawmill, roads, farm tasks, Mary Rockwell Hook, donors, finances, etc.
5/24 DEAR FRIEND LETTERS 1912 October Hindman KY – A fundraising letter from Ethel de Long, Hindman Settlement School principal who later co-founded PMSS, describing the need for a school at Pine Mountain and the community that yearned for it.
5/24 ROBERT PHILLIPS Student – Biography of a fourth grade student who was placed in the Little School at Pine Mountain Settlement School, but attended the school for only one year, 1935-1936.
5/23 ROBERT PHILLIPS Correspondence and Student Records – Images and summaries of papers and correspondence in the student files of a PMSS student of one year, September 1936 until September 1937.
5/19 HELEN F. LITTLE Reports – Line Fork – Transcriptions of reports to Katherine Pettit, Director, from a teacher at PMSS’s extension, Line Fork Settlement, May through October 1925. New information has been added to Helen F. Little’s biography based on her letters and reports.
5/18 HELEN F. LITTLE Correspondence II – Summaries and images of letters of a worker at PMSS’s extension, Line Fork Settlement, dated June 18, 1925 – January 2, 1926. The letters and reports between Little and PMSS Director Pettit and others provide an inside look at how Line Fork operates.
5/16 HELEN F. LITTLE Correspondence I – Summaries and images of letters of a worker at PMSS’s extension, Line Fork Settlement, dated January 20, 1925 through June 9, 1925, including Little’s application for a teaching position at the School.
5/12 ALLEN LONG Student Records – Images and summaries of records of a PMSS student (dated 1947-1948) who later served as president of the PMSS Board of Trustees from c. 2007 until 2014. [Certain records are considered private material and are not publicly displayed.]
5/10 MUSIC Ballads – Favorites at Pine Mountain Settlement School – Images of typewritten lyrics and full transcriptions of 13 of the School’s favorite ballads, including Pretty Polly, I Wonder As I Wander, and Barbara Allen.
5/4 PHOTOGRAPHS Miscellaneous Early PMSS Architecture from Negatives – Prints of campus buildings from negatives in the PMSS Collection, Including West Wind, Draper Building, School House II, Girls Industrial Building, Office, Laurel House II, and Chapel, c. 1940.
5/3 NOTES – 1997 Spring – Transcription and images of a PMSS publication featuring members of Founder William Creech’s family who have helped PMSS realize his hopes and dreams for the School.
5/2 NOTES – 1997 Summer and Fall – Transcriptions and images of 1997 Summer and Fall issues of the PMSS publication, covering Environmental Education Program, Intervention, community activities, renovation of Draper Building, and development of the PMSS Archives.
5/1 PUBLICATIONS RELATED 1963-64 “Progress of the Harlan County Schools” – Transcription and images of a Harlan County (KY) Board of Education report, including tables of financial statistics, lists of achievements, and plans for the 1960s.
APRIL 2025
4/27 DARWIN D. MARTIN 1934 Correspondence – Images and summaries of the correspondence of PMSS Board Chairman Darwin D. Martin with Glyn Morris and other PMSS staff during a difficult year.
4/26 PUBLICATIONS RELATED 1964 FNS “Yarb Lore in the Kentucky Mountains” – Images and transcription of an article about medicinal plants in a 1964 Quarterly Frontier Nursing Service Bulletin, written by Mary Breckinridge, founder of FNS and a PMSS friend.
4/25 GLADYS HILL Writing 1941 “Teaching Cooperation at Pine Mountain” – Images and transcription of an article in Consumers’ Cooperation, July 1941, by Gladys Hill, a Pine Mountain Settlement School teacher of cooperation and the consumer co-op store.
4/11 ABBY WINCH CHRISTENSEN Guide has been added to provide links to pages for Christensen’s biography, correspondence, and art. Abby Winch Christensen was a multi-talented PMSS worker (1924-1949), who taught folk dancing, weaving, and mechanical drawing. Work on the correspondence of Abby Winch Christensen continues in an attempt to fully transcribe the rich history of her relationship with Pine Mountain Settlement School.
MARCH 2025
FEBRUARY 2025
2/17-2/25 Three pages have been completed concerning works by Percy MacKaye (1875-1956), a poet and dramatist. He visited Pine Mountain Settlement School in 1921 while on a research tour of the Appalachians to gather material for his writings.
PERCY MacKAYE and MARION MacKAYE VISITORS 1921 “God, Humanity
and the Mountains“ – Survey Graphic article by the MacKayes, published 1949.
PERCY MACKAYE VISITOR Appalachian Play Reviews – Reviews of plays by MacKaye in various publications, 1920s. Also, a review of a play by Hatcher Hughes.
PERCY MACKAYE VISITOR “Untamed America” – Article by MacKaye, published 1924.
2/12 NOTES Index – The project of transcribing each existing issue of the “Notes from the Pine Mountain Settlement School” from 1919 through 2024 has been completed. Missing NOTES will be added as they are located or donated to the Collection.
