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This was the eloquent statement made by old "Uncle Sol" Beveridge to two women campers in 1902. Upshot: a school for mountaineers at Hindman in Kentucky's feuding Knott County, high in the Southern Appalachians...
...years later, in Caney Valley, a 16-mile-long, rock-rimmed gorge, seven miles from Hindman, Mountaineer Humpty Joab spoke a similar piece. The woman who heard him was Mrs. Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, Boston socialite, author, magazine writer, newspaper editor, ardent suffragette and freethinker. She had fled to Knott County to get over a nervous breakdown. And she got over it. She stayed on, with $10 cash founded Caney Creek Community Center on Humpty 's 153 barren acres...
Boys work the school coal mine, run a sawmill, a gristmill, take their turn in the print shop (only one in Knott County, pop. 15,230). Girls run the dining hall. Sports are difficult-the outdoor basketball court was dynamited out of the hillside...
Pretty, buxom Sarah Gertrude Knott was working for the Drama League in St. Louis when she decided her real calling was to preserve U. S. folklore. Miss Knott got help from old George Lyman Kittredge of Harvard, North Carolina's Paul Green, the late Novelist Mary Austin and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt. By 1934 she had interested enough volunteer talent to put on the first National Folk Festival in St. Louis. She arranged the second Festival in Chattanooga, last year's in Dallas. Envoys from colleges and towns, winners of State Festivals were welcomed. Some sponsor always paid...
Burton L. Cushing as lecturer on the Teaching of Physics in the Graduate School of Education for the second half of 1937-38; for one year from September 1, 1937; Maurice J. Knott as assistant in Applied Mechanics in the Graduate School of Engineering; George Saslow, assistant professor of Biology at New York University as instructor in Physiology at the School of Public Health: Christopher Huntington '32 of St. James, Long Island, New York, now teaching at the University of Wisconsin, as instructor in German; Bernard M. Peebles as instructor in Greek and Latin...