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Cover of Alfreda Peel’s “Witch in the Mill,” with paper-cut illustrations by the author. Music and folklore have been intertwined in Appalachia for centuries. Ballads and folk tunes traveled with the first settlers across the Atlantic and found root in the hills and hollows of the Appalachian Mountains. These musical traditions passed from […] Over the years, many visitors at McConnell Library have taken notice of the small room located off the right side of the Reading Room. This room, filled with numerous statues of porcelain birds, has come to be known by all as the “Bird Room.” While these statues are both valuable and beautiful, visitors to the […] John Preston McConnell and the Anti-Saloon League A talk by Gene Hyde and Adrian Whicker, McConnell Day, February 22, 2012 Thank you for joining us in celebrating the birthday of John Preston McConnell, the first president of what we now call Radford University. McConnell was a man with many interests and passions. He […] Archives and Special Collections has now posted more than 1600 historical RU photographs to RU Digital Collections (actually, the total is 1671 as of this writing). This has been a combined effort, and many thanks are due to the Archives’ student workers Amanda Lilly, Ian Carlow, and Paige Nolen, as well as our graduate assistants […] Radford President Donald Dedmon, Virginia Senatorial candidate John Warner, and actress Elizabeth Taylor on the campus of Radford University, May 1977, accompanied by faculty, staff, and students. Actress Elizabeth Taylor, who died on March 23 at age 79, was married to John Warner from 1976 until 1982. Taylor accompanied Warner […] McConnell Archives and Special Collections has digitized a number of speeches and writings by and about Radford’s first president, John Preston McConnell, in celebration of his birthday on February 22. Follow the links to read these materials from the Personal Papers of John Preston McConnell. McConnell was officially appointed as Radford’s first President during the […] Frances Hilt Graham Trent graduated from Radford College in 1945, and lived on the Radford Campus while the United States was fighting in World War II. Mrs. Trent kept two scrapbooks while at Radford, and she recently donated her scrapbooks, Beehives, and other memorabilia to the RU Archives. Her scrapbooks document life at Radford during […] “Three Questions” were asked in this State Teachers College Bulletin from 1931. This was part of a series of recruitment pamphlets produced during the Great Depression and mailed to students in Southwest Virginia. Some highlights from this 1931 pamphlet: Radford College trained “16 per cent of all the Virginia teachers […] Students swimming in the campus pool Summertime often brought many folks to the Radford College campus, and leisure activities were interspersed with academic life during the summer. Here are a few photos of summertime fun from the 1940s.
Picnic time!
A day […] Happy Holidays from Archives and Special Collections! Here’s a few seasonal images from our collection: Christmas card from M'Ledge Moffett, Dean of Students, 1955.
Christmas card from State Teachers' College, date unknown Radford students playing folk music at Christmas, 1965 […] |
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