Members of the Berea College Bands perform during the CBS broadcast “Listen!” that premiered on Christmas Eve 2016. Berea’s Bands program celebrated its 145th anniversary this past October.…
College archaeologist Dr. Broughton Anderson scrapes the bottom of a test pit to see if a “feature” is present. A feature is a large, non-removable structure like a…
Bill Daugherty: Creating Opportunity in Appalachia Bill Daugherty ’76 has a rare kind of Berea College legacy. His great-great grandmother Martha Drew Sparks attended in 1876, and his…
Albert Thomas loves to tell how his family discovered Boone Tavern in the late 1950s. He and his wife, Marian, were traveling south from Michigan along Highway 25…
Reverend J. Oscar McCloud ’58 grew up on a Georgia plantation, a son of sharecroppers. With his parents in no position to finance his education, Oscar first found…
Hilda Roderick ’48 Presents a Berea College Student Crafts Bowl to Yale’s Dr. Robert Crabtree. In many ways, the family story of Hilda K. Roderick ’48 mirrors…
An Aerial View of Penney Farms Today Just south of Jacksonville, Florida, on a 1.5-square-mile patch of land, rests the town of Penney Farms. Population: 750. Median age:…
When you hear stories about college students and finances, they’re usually about rolling quarters for gas or going in on a pizza. Far less common are stories about…
By Jason Lee Miller The academic lecture has been a standard feature of college campuses since the days of Plato. In the Hall Science Building, erected in 1928,…
By Tim Jordan, ’76 and Jason Lee Miller On June 26, 2014 Randy Johnson, ’91, completed a journey by standing in a place he never thought he’d be.…