Description
"The Quarterly Magazine of the Southern Industrial Educational Association" was printed from 1909 through 1926. The 53 small booklets contain a wide variety of Appalachian-related information on subjects as diverse as speech patterns, book reviews, basket weaving, and night school education. Field secretaries and extension agents contributed eyewitness accounts of typhoid and hookworm outbreaks, new school projects, and wrote hearfelt stories about Appalachian children in desperate need of financial help. Minutes of the Southern Industrial Educational Association's (SIEA) annual meetings were reported in the "Quarterly Magazine" with budgets and fundraising amounts often included. As a body of work, the magazines offer the Appalachian community a comprehensive regional report for systematic analysis of social change over a seventeen-year period. This information, coupled with the history of the organization and its leaders, provides resource material for Appalachian Studies' students, regional scholars, craft artists, and those who study the role of philanthropy in society. Fall 2014, Summer 2015, Summer 2016
