Challenge and Change in Appalachia: The Story of Hindman Settlement School

321 Pages·2002·3.41 MB·English

by  Jess Stoddart

Acknowledgments i
Challenge and Change in Appalachia
ii Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments iii
C C
HALLENGE AND HANGE
A
IN PPALACHIA
The Story of
Hindman Settlement School
J S
ESS TODDART
The University Press of Kentucky
iv Acknowledgments
Publication of this volume was made possible in part by a grant
from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Copyright © 2002 by Jess Stoddart
Published by The University Press of Kentucky.
Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth,
serving Bellarmine University, Berea College, Centre
College of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University,
The Filson Historical Society, Georgetown College,
Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky State University,
Morehead State University, Murray State University,
Northern Kentucky University, Transylvania University,
University of Kentucky, University of Louisville,
and Western Kentucky University.
All rights reserved.
Editorial and Sales Offices: The University Press of Kentucky
663 South Limestone Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40508–4008
02 03 04 05 06 5 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stoddart, Jess, 1937-
Challenge and change in Appalachia : the story of
Hindman Settlement School / Jess Stoddart.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8131-2250-3 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Hindman Settlement School—History. 2. Education,
Rural—Kentucky—Case studies. I. Title.
LD7501.H68 S76 2002
370’.9769’125—dc21 2001007629
This book is printed on acid-free recycled paper meeting
the requirements of the American National Standard
for Permanence in Paper for Printed Library Materials.
Manufactured in the United States of America.
Acknowledgments v
For in the warp and woof of all her days
Some thread from all our lives is caught
And woven there in history’s bright patterned
Memory . . .
Prologue: Fiftieth Anniversary Pageant
vi Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments vii
For Albert Stewart (1914–2001) and James Still (1906–2001)
Sons of the mountains . . . and the Settlement
viii Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments ix
C
ONTENTS
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. “Mixin’ Larns Both Parties”: The Beginnings 9
2. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union School,
1902–1915 48
3. “Broadening Out”: Hindman Settlement School,
1915–1932 83
4. “The Best School in the Mountains” 111
5. The Challenges of a Changing World, 1932–1977 142
6. A Wider Sphere of Influence:
Hindman Settlement School Today 174
7. “Arousing the Neighborhood”:
The Community Development Initiative 206
Appendix 1. Social Settlements and Settlement Workers:
An Essay in Appalachian Historiography 225
Appendix 2. Faculty and Staff, 1925–1926 233
Appendix 3. A Chronology of Hindman Settlement School 235
Notes 243
Bibliography 269
Index 293