A Taste of History: Preserving the One-Room School Culture in Floyd County, Virginia

Categories
Appalachian Collections > Appalachian Folklife Archive
Subject
Appalachia
Oral histories--Appalachia
Folklore--Appalachia
Floyd County (Va)
Education.
Schoolhouses
Education, Rural.
Teaching.
Teachers.
Creator
Derrick, Ruth
Brown, Effie King
Whitenack, Mason L.
Albert, Nola
Shelor, Dwight
Wimmer, Diana
Baldwin, Amy
Marshall, Courtney
Type
text and audio
Coverage - Temporal
2008
Date
2008-05-02
2020-07-14
Identifier
FA208.DirectedStudy.01Derrick.pdf
Language
english
Publisher
Appalachian Regional and Rural Studies Center. Radford University
Archives & Special Collections. McConnell Library. Radford University
Description
This project was completed by Ruth Derrick in May of 2008 as part of a directed study under Dr. Grace Toney Edwards. The purpose of this project was to research and preserve information about one and two room schools in Floyd County. Ms. Derrick interviewed Effie King Brown, Mason L. Whitenack, Nola Albert, Dwight Shelor, Diana Wimmer, Amy Baldwin, and Courtney Marshall, all of whom attended or taught at one room schools. Transferred to McConnell Library Archives & Special Collections from Appalachian Regional and Rural Studies Center, Fall 2013.
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