In 1988, while camping on his family’s abandoned farm on the Little River, and reflecting on his studies at he Harvard Graduate School of Education, it occured John Hargrove Bowles that this land might be put to better use somehow. Through his studies with “street youth” and runaways, Mr. Bowles knew the […]
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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.
One of the McConnell Library’s Archives and Special Collections newest additions is the Virginia Deal Lawrence Scrapbook Collection. The collection is part of the Appalachian Collection, which seeks to document the history, culture, literature, music, and environment of the New River Valley, Southwest Virginia and Appalachia. Virginia Deal Lawrence. This photo was taken […] |
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