There’s beauty in the chain of a song’s creation—in that behind-the-scenes glimpse into an artist’s process, from angst to revelation. There’s inspiration in the journals kept alongside the…
Life is made up of stories, moments in time captured as snapshots in our memory, of relationships and encounters, of tangible adventures and fleeting thoughts, of all that…
Sharyn Richards Mitchell FD ‘65, BC ‘69: Making Connections Through her natural curiosity, love of research and making connections, Sharyn Mitchell has helped innumerable people, campus departments, alumni…
The Berea College Black Ensemble recorded its first album, “The Lord is Blessing Me,” in 1971. The cover art was created by Bruce Gray ‘73 to capture the…
Meet Berea’s petite archive researcher who tells theCollege’s story in a big way As a little girl Sharyn Mitchell hated history because it was boring—it was all memorizing…
Preserving an Appalachian tradition Have a conversation with Bill Best ’59, former director of the Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Center, Berea College faculty member and author of two books…
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…