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The May Day celebration, was an annual event that took place in “The Sunken Garden”, which was the field in front of Russell Hall. A very nice description of this yearly event can be found in M’Ledge Moffett’s History of the State Teacher’s College (page 354-5): “MAY FESTIVALS Miss Ninde, director […] The Home Management House (or “Cottage”) provided Home Economics majors at Radford to live together in a house situation and actively practice skills such as home budget planning, cleaning, cooking, meal planning, housekeeping, and other tasks. Living in the Home Management Cottage carried credit, and was listed as “Home Economics 46: Home Management […] In 1996, Radford University student Jennifer Bunn was taking Grace Toney Edwards’ class “Appalachian Literature”. In the class, among many other things, they read a play by Earl Hobson Smith called The Long Way Home, which tells the story of Mary Draper Ingles and her kidnapping and escape from Indian captivity.
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