KATHERINE B. WRIGHT

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 09: Biography – Staff/Personnel
Teacher, Scouting Officer 1919-1921 and 1923-1925

Katherine B. Wright came to Pine Mountain Settlement School in 1919 and stayed until 1921. She then returned in 1923 and stayed until 1925. Her official duties were as a teacher and as a Girl Scout Leader. She was close friends with co-worker Lucretia Garfield, who mentions “Kay” often in her correspondence as the two worked together on Girl Scout activities.

Like many of the staff at Pine Mountain, she was a keen observer of life at the School and of human nature. Her most lasting contribution to Pine Mountain was a short article she wrote about her experiences at the School during the Christmas season. Her article, written for The New-Church League Journal (Volume XXII, No. 3, December 1921), is titled “Glimpses of a Pine Mountain Christmas.” Her brief article was introduced by Ethel de Long Zande who noted,

“Poverty you find, lack of knowledge you find, conditions needing to be corrected, still, here in the Kentucky mountains are a people inherently fine, their native vigor unspent, their mental and spiritual resources so great that they bring hope to America.”  Ethel de Long Zande

Katherine B. Wright: GALLERY

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Title

KATHERINE B. WRIGHT

Alt. Title

 Kay Wright ; Katherine Wright ; 

Identifier

Permalink: https://pinemountainsettlement.net/?page_id=14244

Creator

Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY

Alt. Creator

Ann Angel Eberhardt ; Helen Hayes Wykle ;

Subject Keyword

Katherine B. Wright ; Pine Mountain Settlement School ;

Subject LCSH

Wright, Katherine B.
Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) — History.
Harlan County (Ky.) — History.
Education — Kentucky — Harlan County.
Rural schools — Kentucky — History.
Schools — Appalachian Region, Southern.

Date

2014-12-08

Publisher

Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY

Contributor

n/a

Type

Collections ; text ; image ;

Format

Original and copies of documents and correspondence in file folders in filing cabinet

Source

Series 09: Biography – Staff/Personnel

Language

English

Relation

Is related to: Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections, Series 09: Biography – Staff/Personnel

Coverage Temporal

1919-1925

Coverage Spatial

Pine Mountain, KY ; Harlan County, KY ;

Rights

Any display, publication, or public use must credit the Pine Mountain Settlement School. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Donor

n/a

Description

Core documents, correspondence, writings, and administrative papers of Katherine B. Wright ; clippings, photographs, books by or about [full name] ;

Acquisition

n/d

Citation

Pine Mountain Settlement School Institutional Papers, Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY

Processed By

Helen Hayes Wykle ; Ann Angel Eberhardt ;

Last Updated

2014-08-01 hhw ; 2015-01-14 aae ;

Bibliography

 Wright, Katherine B. “Glimpses of a Pine Mountain Christmas”. The New-Church League Journal. Cambridge, Mass. Published for the New-church League by Powell Printing Co. Volume XXII:3, December 1921. Pages 36-37. Print.

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