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Annie Dougherty Rufty (1903-2001) was one of four children of D.D. Dougherty and Lillie Shull Dougherty. She graduated from Appalachian in 1921 and went on to teach home economics at the high school level. She was married to Roy S. Rufty. This collection contains correspondence and a 1905 summer term card.

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The Appalachian Consortium, in operation from 1970-2004, was a nonprofit, educational organization formed by a partnership of academic institutions dedicated to preserving the history and enhancing the future of the Southern Appalachian region. This collection contains files detailing the initial organization and continuing leadership of the Consortium, its finances and correspondence, as well as its major projects, grants, publications, and conferences.

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The Appalachian Crafts and Music Festival Collection includes thirty-five audiocassettes and six videocassettes, recorded at the Appalachian Crafts and Music Festivals in 1984, 1985, and 1987. The Appalachian Crafts and Music Festival was an annual event in Watauga County, North Carolina featuring local and regional craftsmen and musicians.

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Materials in the Appalachian Cultural Museum Records cover the history of the museum from 1989 until its close in 2006. The collection contains materials concerned with the museum administration, correspondendence, exhibits, events, and publicity.

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The Appalachian Festival at Morris Harvey College Collection includes a program of events taking place during the week, as well as letters of correspondence between William Plumley at Morris Harvey College and Charlotte Ross. Correspondence illustrates the business interactions between the college and program participant Charlotte Ross, early in her career. It also contains a list of audio tapes from Mars [Morris] Harvey College.

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This collection includes newsletters, performance programs, photographs, recordings, and performance posters.

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This collection consists of a basketball schedule for Appalachian High School for 1955-1956. The sponsor was Good Gulf Wholesale Distributors for Ashe and Watauga Counties, Boone, North Carolina, manager J.D. Shoemake. The schedule included games with Bethel, Lansing, St. Stephens, Millers Creek, Cove Creek, Blowing Rock, Mountain City, Crossnore, Beaver Creek, and Jefferson High Schools.

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This collection consists of the May 14, 1948 commencement program for Appalachian High School. In addition to listing the formal program for the event, the program also includes the names of the graduates. Chapell Wilson Hall on the Appalachian State University campus is the former location of the high school.

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The collection includes two issues of the Appalachian High School newsletter, "Appalachian High Life." Appalachian High School was one of the two demonstration schools housed at Appalachian State Teachers College (Appalachian State University). Contents include the "Salute to the Seniors" issue (May 25, 1951) and pages 3-7 of a Christmas issue, likely from 1950.

Abstract The Appalachian Journal Records contain drafts of papers submitted for publication in the Appalachian Journal between 1972 and 1988, conference and workshop announcements and papers, posters, articles, and newspapers. The Appalachian Journal is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed quarterly featuring field research, interviews, and other scholarly studies of history, politics, economics, culture, folklore, literature, music, ecology, and a variety of other topics, as well as poetry and...

Abstract The Appalachian Land Ownership Survey was a study initiated by the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force in Fall 1978 to examine land ownership patterns, particularly absentee and corporate ownership, and the resulting effects on regional development. The study participants concluded that a disproportionate amount of land owners were absentee and that corporate owners paid a disproportionately low amount of taxes. Materials address issues such as agriculture, coal mining, housing, land...

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This collection contains two records books of the Society, dated 1905-1909, 1912. Included in the books are the Society's constitution, meeting minutes, membership rosters, and drafts of programs hosted by the Society.

Abstract This collection includes records for the Appalachian Oral History Project, a combined effort of Appalachian State University, Alice Lloyd College, Emory and Henry College, and Lees Junior College to document oral histories of the history and folklore of the central Appalachian region. Materials in this collection consist of interviews and records generated by Appalachian State University interviewers between 1973 and 1975. Records include audio interviews, administrative files, photographs,...

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The Appalachian Parents Association was founded in 1988 in order to involve parents of Appalachian students in activities and programs vital to the success of the university. These records contain the organizational files of the Appalachian Parents Association from 1989-1998.

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This collection consists of poems written by Appalachian poets, including Muriel Miller Dressler (autographed), Louise Marsh Gabriel, Walter Griffin, Jesse Stuart, James Still (autographed), Bob Henry Baber (autographed), and Alice Boorman Williamson (autographed).

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This collection consists of a typed manuscript by Vivian Sexton Flannery Dees, a native of eastern Kentucky, entitled "Appalachian Recollections: True Tales My Father Told Me," dated 1991. Dee imparts true stories, regaling of laughter, music, and family that her father, Stephen Sexton, shared with her.

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The Appalachian Region Photographs collection contains print photographs and negatives of the Appalachian region, mostly Northwestern North Carolina, but also some parts of Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. It contains photographs, slides, and negatives. Images include Ashe, Avery, Mitchell, and Watauga Counties, and unidentified images of towns, people, and museum exhibits.

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This collection includes a variety of articles and student papers concerning the Appalachian Region collected by the librarians in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection.

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The Appalachian Regional Ephemera Collection contains flyers, posters, postcards, brochures, travel guides, booklets, programs, and other ephemera from Appalachian towns or with Appalachian themes.

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The Appalachian Resource Center Records is a collection of surveys sent in 1979 from the Center to various agencies/universities to garner information on available resources relating to studies, crafts, education, outreach programs, and publications in the southeastern states.

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The Appalachian Staff Council is an elected body of staff members at Appalachian State University that represent the buildings and departments in which they work. These records contain meeting minutes, correspondence, agendas, reports and 3 photographs, dating 1974-2004.

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This collection consists of newsletters produced by the faculty of Appalachian State Teachers College between September 1964-June 1967. Newsletters provided updates on faculty and other information determined to be pertinent to communicate to the faculty. They sometimes included condolences.

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This collection consists of newsletters produced by the faculty of Appalachian State University from July 1967-1972. Newsletters provided updates on faculty and other information determined to be pertinent to communicate.

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The Appalachian State University Foundation, Inc. was chartered in November 1970 to begin and sustain a fund-raising program for ASU and supports the university by receiving and investing private funds to help further the institution's academic mission. The Appalachian State University Foundation, Inc. Records, dating 1929-2008, contain mostly financial statements and meeting minutes for the Foundation and its Board of Directors.

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The Appalachian State University Memory Project Records consists of oral histories documenting Appalachian State University and its surrounding community. This collection contains memories and biographical sketches of alumna, administrators, community members, faculty and staff connected to Appalachian State University. The collection's oral histories were conducted between 2006 and 2015. This collection continues to be an ongoing project.

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The Appalachian State University Oral History Projects, Audio Materials and Papers Collection is a mixture of audiocassettes from several oral history projects, conferences, and events, dating in the 1970s-1980s, some of which have been positively identified as to which project the interview is related while others are not. A few transcriptions, CD copies, and duplicates are also part of this collection.

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This collection consists of brochures, pamphlets, and booklets created by the Office of Business Affairs or the Public Safety and Security Department regarding parking and traffic at Appalachian State. The publications range in date from 1966-2003, though the date range is incomplete. They include information about traffice rules and regulations and campus parking.

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The Appalachian Studies Student Alliance Collection covers the development of the Appalachian Studies Student Alliance. Papers include fliers, e-mail print-outs, surveys, posters. It is a non-incorporated, unofficial student organization for Appalachian Studies undergraduates, graduates and alumnus at Appalachian State University.

Scope and Contents The Appalachian Training School Collection contains land deeds, student class constitution and minutes, library borrowing records, promotional brochure, and manuscript for a student magazine. The deeds are for land in and around Boone and Watauga County, NC, owned by Watauga Academy, Appalachian Training School, and members of the school's Board of Trustees. The promotional brochure highlights the programs and facilities at the school and was sent by President B. B. Dougherty to a...