Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 09: Biography – Staff/Personnel
Series 09: Directors
Series 03: Histories
EVELYN K. WELLS 1920 EXCERPTS FROM LETTERS HOME
Evelyn K. Wells
Secretary 1915 – 1931
Acting Director 1931
TAGS: Evelyn K. Wells 1920 Excerpts from Letters Home; Pine Mountain Settlement School ; secretaries ; personal correspondence ; letters home ; excerpts ; transcriptions ; letters ; PMSS early history ; Aunt Sal Creech ; Uncle William Creech ; Elsie Creech ; State Board of Health ; looms ; weaving ; vegetable dyes ; As You Like It play ; Shakespeare ;
Yesterday we had a perfect torrent of rain, — swollen streams, all the bridges on the school grounds under water, cellars flooded, garden ruined, — and all the children and workers who had planned to cross the mountain, stalled here for another day. Noah, didn’t it rain! They all got off this morning, although the mountainside is a network of little torrents,
About midday the doctors from the State Board of Health the nurse, and someone who does the business end of things rode in to arrange for the tonsils clinic which begins tomorrow. They were drenched and had no dry change of clothing, as their bags were in the mail wagon, which had been wrecked on the mountain.
Last exercises for school: final vespers, special supper, and a very poor “As You LIke It” on a very shivery evening. Elsie Creech graduated from High School, and another girl who has been here since the first grade, Elsie spoke on “Do the Mountains Need Me? and Becky May [Becky May Huff] on weaving and vegetable dyes in which she is proficient after four year in the weaving room,. She illustrated her talk by showing different materials and she wore a dress she had woven herself. We had a good speaker, a Presbyterian minister fro Cincinnati, and lots of parents and neighbors.
There was a fine exhibit of the best of the year’s industrial work: underwear, baby clothes, furniture. One boy had made a model loom, not ten inches high, completely set up; another a beautifully inlaid checkerboard of black walnut and basswood.
See Also:
EVELYN K. WELLS BIOGRAPHY
EVELYN K. WELLS GUIDE TO ADMINISTRATIVE CORRESPONDENCE
EVELYN K. WELLS RECORD OF PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL 1913-1928 [INDEX] (Early in-depth history of Pine Mountain Settlement School)
EVELYN K. WELLS, GUIDE EXCERPTS FROM LETTERS HOME
EVELYN K. WELLS 1915 EXCERPTS
EVELYN K. WELLS 1915 EXCERPTS Horseback to Hindman
EVELYN K. WELLS 1916 EXCERPTS
EVELYN K. WELLS 1917 EXCERPTS
EVELYN K. WELLS 1918 EXCERPTS
EVELYN K. WELLS 1919 EXCERPTS
EVELYN K. WELLS 1920 EXCERPTS
EVELYN K. WELLS 1921 EXCERPTS
EVELYN K. WELLS 1922 EXCERPTS
