Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 04 ADMINISTRATION – Board of Trustees
Series 09: BIOGRAPHY – Staff
Series 28: BOOKS
Alice Cobb Guide to Writings, Collected Stories

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TAGS: Alice Cobb Guide to Writing, Collected Stories, and Letters, Pine Mountain Settlement School, institutional promotion, Harlan County, Kentucky, Katherine Pettit, Ethel de Long Zande, writing, community stories, personal letters, Nance Templeton, Mrs. Fields, Cutshin, KY, Line Fork, Medical centers, Chad Nolan, Dillard Day, foodways, Old Growth Forests

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ALICE COBB GUIDE To Writing, Collected Stories, and Letters 

Secretary, Publicity 1932-1937
Teacher 1942-1952
Member, Board of Trustees 1983-?
Fundraiser, Visitor, Consultant 1952-1995

ALICE COBB GUIDE: [Chronological]

	CORRESPONDENCE
1927
1927	Excerpts from Old Letters, 1927
1927	Twenty Years Ago at Pine Mountain, 1927
1927	Miss Pettit to Mrs. Thompson, March 5, 1927
1929	Alice Cobb Correspondence
Alice Cobb Correspondence
1930	Alice Cobb Correspondence 1930s
1931	ALICE COBB Reference and Correspondence 1930s
1932	Alice Cobb Correspondence
1933	Alice Cobb Correspondence
1934	Alice Cobb Correspondence
1935	Alice Cobb Correspondence
1936	Alice Cobb Correspondence
1937	Alice Cobb Correspondence
1938	Alice Cobb Correspondence
1939	Alice Cobb Correspondence
1940	ALICE COBB Correspondence 1940s
1941	Alice Cobb Correspondence
1942	Alice Cobb Correspondence
1943	Alice Cobb Correspondence
1944	Alice Cobb Correspondence
1945	Alice Cobb Correspondence
1976	GLYN MORRIS Correspondence 1976 Letter to Alice Cobb
1978	ALICE COBB Correspondence 1978 Philosophy and Objectives of PMSS
Stories Told by Miss Pettit [See: Katherine Pettit Stories]
1927	“Aunt Nance Templeton”
“Aunt Nance Templeton”
	“Mrs. Field’s Visit from Line Fork anent [about ?] the School There”
“The Red Shirtwaist”
“Miss Pettit’s Trip Around the World”
“Cutting Off a Woman’s Hair”
“Story of the First Chad Nolan”
“The Line Fork Nativity Play”
“Cutshin”
“Kentucky Place Names”
“How Aunt Sal Stopped Uncle William From Drinking”
“The Encyclopedia”
Alice Cobb Stories
1927	“Trouble and Satisfaction” in Notes November 1927. “A New Bear Story“ and other tales told by Old John Shell, that were published in the Pine Mountain Notes, March 1927, Vol. 11, No. 7.
1928	Letter to Miss Motter from Student , September 4, 1928 “I don’t like school. But I like what it makes you bee.” [Brit Wilder] Comments
1933-34	Walking the Railroad Ties (Dillard Day)	1
1934	May Graveyard Meeting at Big Laurel, 1934	2
1934	Death of Manilla Blevins Baby Alice.	3
1934	Hike to Napier and Gabes Branch, May 1934	4
1934	Party for Logging Boys, May 25, 1934.  Music at Henry Creech’s	5
	Visit to Jasper Cornett’s Place	6
	Howard Burdine Tail of Old Red	7
1934	Holiness Meeting (Repeats from #2) October 29, 1934	8
	Marionette Show at Big Laurel	9
	Visit to Uncle Hen Turner, 1934	10
	Pre-Christmas Sunday School at Pine Mountain	11
	Chris Anderson and Josiah Combs Accounts of their own “Death”	12
1935-1936	March of Time in Greasy Valley, 1936. Work on Road, Reflections on Changes and Place of Crafts, Song and Dance in the New Era Road Will Bring	13
	Abner Boggs’s Lamentation for his Wife [early 1930’s]	14
1934-1935	Visit to the Harmon Turner’s ,… But not, 1934. Visits Down Greasy. Granny Creech, 1934. Martha Spradlin and Renn and Ben Scearse, 1935.	15
1935	Visit to Line Fork with Mrs. Morris, October 19, 1935	16
	Taking Moving Pictures Down Greasy, October 30, 1935	17
	Fair Day, September 23, 1953	18
	Visit to Medical Settlement with Miss Cold, 1935	19
1935	From Abner Boggs, Quotes and Thoughts 1935	20
	Sunday School at Divide, 1934-1935	21
1938	Visit to Line Fork. Time of Miss Pettit’s Death, 1938	22
1938	The Big Log Little Girls	23
1937	Trip To Turkey Fork and Big Laurel. March 8, 1937	24
	Logging in Gabes Branch and Holiness Service	25
1937	Sunday School at Divide, April 25, 1937	26
	Stapleton’s Leave Line Fork	27
1937	Handing Over Divide Sunday School to Miss Cold. June 21, 1937. Descriptive list of attendees.	28
1937	Farewell Trip to Line Fork via Little Laurel, Big Laurel, and Turkey Fork. June 4, 1937	29
	Boy’s Industrial Building Fire	30
1940	About Sarah Bailey	31
	Religion, Sunday School, Pine Mountain Divide	32
1950’s ?	About the Red Woven Coverlet	33

ALICE COBB: REPORTS TO DIRECTORS

1944	ALICE COBB’S REPORT TO TRUSTEE DOROTHY ELSMITH, 1944 [A report of her visits to several mountain institutions similar to Pine Mountain] Includes, for example: Highlander Folk School, Warren Wilson College, John C. Campbell Folk School, Cherokee Indian School, Pleasant Hill Academy, Phi Beta Phi School.

ALICE COBB: PMSS BOARD OF TRUSTEES 

1977

Philosophy and Objectives of the Pine Mountain Settlement School [Strategic planning document}

1 page

ALICE COBB: FUNDRAISING TRAVELOGUES

YEAR	TITLE	NOTES
1941	ALICE COBB Travelogue
1942	ALICE COBB Travelogue:
1944	ALICE COBB Travelogue
1946	ALICE COBB’S Report to Trustee Dorothy Elsmith 1944 [Travelogue]
1948	ALICE COBB Travelogue for Prospective Students

ALICE COBB: PHOTOGRAPHS

YEAR	TITLE	NOTES
	ALICE COBB SNAPS PHOTO ALBUM

ALICE COBB: PUBLICATIONS [Thesis, Books, and Articles]

YEAR	TITLE	PUBLISHER	NOTES
2006	War’s Unconquered Children Speak	(Reprint)	Reprint
1953	Refugees from War: A Study Based on War’s Unconquered Children Speak.	Boston: Beacon Press,	Print
1965.	Sect Religion and Social Change in an Isolated Rural Community of Southern Appalachia: [with] Case Story: Fruit of the Land.	[Thesis/dissertation]	Print.
1980.	[with] Fahs, Sophia L, Alice Cobb, and Gobin Stair. Old Tales for a New Day: Early Answers to Life’s Eternal Questions.,	Buffalo, N.Y: Prometheus Books	Print.
2016	Cobb, Alice, Sophia Fahs, Hiba. War’s Unconquered Children Speak.	Westview Press,. [Re-print of 1953 edition.]	[Re-print of 1953 edition.]

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See Also:

ALICE COBB Staff Trustee Biography

ALICE COBB Correspondence 1940s Image and transcription of contract between Cobb and PMSS for publicity work in 1941-1942.

FARM 1935 Community Fair Day as described by Alice Cobb, September 23, 1935

GLYN MORRIS Correspondence 1976 Letter to Alice Cobb

ALICE COBB Travelogue 1941
ALICE COBB Travelogue 1942
ALICE COBB Travelogue 1946

ALICE COBB Snaps Photo Album

ALICE COBB War’s Unconquered Children Speak 

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