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.”