| Summary | This collection of video recordings,
sound recordings, manuscripts, photographs, graphic materials, and artifacts documents
Protestant religious revival meetings of various denominations in the southern
Appalachian region, primarily in Tennessee, West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, and
Georgia. The collection includes interviews with church leaders and members of
congregations, and documentation of religious services, healing services, revivals, hymn
singing, sermons, snake handling, and other religious rites and customs recorded by
Eleanor Dickinson from 1968 to 1991. Other topics include beekeeping, church roadside
signs, religious quilts, snake hunting, drinking strychnine, decorating graves in
cemeteries, church dinners, and more. Included are some religious and secular radio
programs recorded by Dickinson, including programs from Nashville, Tennessee, featuring
bluegrass music, and a program featuring Paul Simon; and documentation of Protestant
revivals in Oakland and San Francisco, California. Dickinson's interviews with visionary
artist Rev. Howard Finster on various occasions between August 1, 1981 and July 25, 1991
in Summerville, Georgia, are included in the collection. The collection also includes
audio logs and transcripts, video logs, the collector's powerpoint presentations (2004),
documentation of Dickinson's exhibition, "Revival!," at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in
1970; and other manuscripts. |
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