Roan Mountain Project Collection
Scope and Contents
The Roan Mountain Project was part of the Upper Cumberland Folklore, Folklife, and Oral History Archives Project sponsored by the Tennessee Department of Conservation. Homer Kemp of Tennessee Technological University’s Upper Cumberland Studies Program, headed the Upper Cumberland project for the department of conservation. During 1992, the project evaluated various types of documentation available on the folklore and folklife of Roan Mountain. Among the types of documentation included in the evaluative report completed by the project are published articles, clippings, photographs, audiotapes, videotapes, and gravestone rubbings. Burton’s Spring 1992 American folklore class carried out the Roan Mountain American Folklife Survey. Class members tape-recorded interviews with Roan Mountain residents, transcribed the interviews, wrote analysis reports on the interviews, and documented cemeteries in Roan Mountain. Burton’s class completed its work in March 1992; Richard Blaustein , CASS, forwarded the final report to Kemp on November 24, 1992.
The collection includes written documentation which specifies project requirements and findings; interview transcriptions, analyses, releases, dub sheets, and biographical information sheets; and audiotapes of interviews. The collection focuses on reminiscences of residents of life in Roan Mountain, traditional music, and folklore.
Dates
- 1991-1992
Creator
- Burton, Thomas G. (Person)
- Haskell, Jean, 1947- (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The papers are open for research.
Extent
3 Boxes
1 folder(s)
Language of Materials
English
Method of Acquisition
Jean H. Speer, director of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University (ETSU), donated five file folders on the Roan Mountain Project to the Archives of Appalachia on February 23, 1993. Thomas G. Burton, English department, ETSU, contributed the audiotapes and three file folders of written documentation to the archives on February 24, 1992 and two tombstone rubbings on February 26, 1992.
Processing Information
Processing of the collection was completed in 1998 by Marie Tedesco.
- Young, Malone, 1920-
- Ballads Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cemeteries -- North Carolina Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cemeteries -- Tennessee Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cloudland Hotel
- Country music Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Distilling, Illicit Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Dulcimer Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Folklore -- Appalachian Region, Southern Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Folklore -- Appalachian Region, Southern Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Ginseng Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hicks, Orla Eliza Holtsclaw, 1909-2006
- Midwifery Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Publications (document genre) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Roan Mountain (N.C. and Tenn.)--History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Roan Mountain (N.C. and Tenn.)--Social life and customs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Stone rubbings Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Marie Tedesco
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Archives of Appalachia Repository
PO Box 70295
344 J.L. Seehorn Jr. Rd.
Johnson City TN 37614 USA
423-439-4338
423/439-4338
archives@etsu.edu
