Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 17: PMSS Publications (Published by the School)
NOTES – 1924
“Notes from the Pine Mountain Settlement School”
May and November 1924
GALLERY: NOTES – 1924 May
CONTENTS
NOTES – 1924 MAY: linguistics ; school’s birthday ; death of Harry Callahan ; literature ; Denmark ; Cecil Sharp ; Marguerite Butler ; Harriet Butler ; Dr. Grace Huse ; Angela Melville ; Elva Lewis ; William Creech ; Solomon Everidge ; Percy MacKaye ; Southern Highlands ; books ; folksong ; folkdance ; Kitty Ritchie ; Lucy Furman ; Elva Lewis ; Sun Up ; plays ; Lucille LaVerne ; This Fine Pretty World ;
There could be no more interesting marker for our school’s eleventh birthday than the new policy we have just adopted, by which we shall cut out from our course grades I through IV, and hereafter enter only children over fourteen. A whole chapter of our history is closed.
GALLERY: NOTES – 1924 November
CONTENTS
NOTES – 1924 NOVEMBER: oculist ; Election Day ; Chapel ; Baptists ; dedication of Chapel ; Rev. Alfred Lee Wilson ; Cecil Sharp dedication ; ballads ; Victrolas ; Playford’s English Dancing Master ; folk dance ; English Folk Dance Society ; logging train ; forestry ; extension teachers ; knickers ; Green Hill School ; G. F. Mansell ;
America’s forestry problem is here on this side of Pine Mountain, in a nutshell.
Pine Mountain is one of the many places touched by the influence of Cecil Sharp, the noted collector of English folk dances and songs who died last summer.