NOTES – 1926

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 17: PMSS Publications (Published by the School)

NOTES – 1926
“Notes from the Pine Mountain Settlement School”
April and November 1926


GALLERY: NOTES – 1926 April

CONTENTS

NOTES – 1926 APRIL: campus description ; students ; workers ; fees ; schedule ; cottage plan ; housemother ; poem ; tasks ; industrial training ; academic ideals ; Frances Parker School ; Lincoln School ; culture ; recreation ; swimming pool ; religion ; nursing ; buildings ; extension work ; Medical Settlement ; Line Fork ; equipment ; economizing ; budget ; Mr. Zeigler ; Mrs. Hook ; Elizabeth Hench ; Mrs. James J. Storrow ; Harriot Houghteling ; Cloyd McAllister ; Dr. Francis Sage Bradley ; 

…[W]ith the incoming industrial era, a desire for better…living and greater beauty of every-day life must be created, or the mountain people will be the victims of circumstance rather than open-eyed choosers of their way of life.

In this state the marriageable age is still set by law at twelve for girls and fourteen for boys, and dull lives have driven many undeveloped children to the only amusement they see within their reach, sweethearting …


GALLERY: NOTES – 1926 November

CONTENTS

NOTES – 1926 NOVEMBER: Katherine Pettit ; Ethel de Long Zande ; Indians ; Indian workshop ; cave ; archeology ; Dr. Funkhouser ; Dr. Miller ; Mr. Victor Dodge ; skeletons ; lyrics ; funeral song ; Adrian Metcalf ; Old Log ; Indian Cliff ; cabin ; grounds ; Uncle William Memorial Fountain ; settlers ; playgrounds ; cooking class ; workers ; Singing Willie Nolan ; ballads ; Gabes Branch ; Uncle William ; Aunt Sal ; Mr. Zande ; list of workers ; Mathy Grove ; Mr. Browning ; garden ; canning ; 

When we [and the archeologists] stopped digging [under the Indian Cliff], parts of nine skeletons had been unearthed, all buried in the sitting posture….


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