Jesse Stuart, 1906-1984 Rural Kentucky School Teacher and Writer
Kentucky Poet Laureate
One Room School, Atkins, VA
Fairfield School, Jackson County, North Carolina, c. 1909
Webster School, Jackson County, North Carolina, c. 1910.
The building dates from 1900.
Qualla Township Graded School
Jackson County, North Carolina (around 1910)
Cherokee Training School, 1890
Boys' Home, Sylva Collegiate Institute Jackson County, North Carolina
1900 - 1930
First Building of Cullowhee High School or AcademyAbout 1891
Examples of Other Types of Educational Institutions
In Appalachia
Christiansburg Institute, est 1866Montgomery County, VA
Education for Freed Slaves
Christiansburg InstituteFounded by Charles Schaeffer
Moonlight School, Morehead, KY, 1910Originally a one room school
Tuskegee UniversityFounded 1881
The first Berea College Building(http://www.berea.edu/about/history.asp)
Black Mountain CollegeLake Eden Campus, 1945
Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School 1924
Fotched-on Womenby David Whisnant
• Women reformers who came from outside the region beginning in the 1890s to found and work in educational, cultural, medical, recreational, and religious programs and institutions
• Artificial, inferior, culturally incongruent
Blab Schoolsby Loyal Jones
oBlab Schools –students studied lessons by blabbing or repeating lessons – Children read, spelled and ciphered ‘out loud’, partly due to shortage of paper, pencils and slates. “Studied at the top of their voices.”