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Series Ii(A). Sermons. Folder 5. Sermons, N.D., Melville Homer Cummings

Cummings, Melville Homer, 1890-1978

This folder contains typescripts of approximately 10 sermons, some of which appear to be unfinished and/or have handwritten notes on them. Some, such as “the father” and “the ideal husband,” appear to be duplicated in other folders; those unique to this folder include sermons on Moses, heaven, and the Christmas season.

Series Ii(A). Sermons. Folder 4. Sermons, N.D., Melville Homer Cummings

Cummings, Melville Homer, 1890-1978

This folder contains typescripts of 8 sermons. Titles and texts include “The Old-Fashioned Way” (Jeremiah 6:16), “Family Religion” (Mark 5:19), “Reasons for Missions” (Mark 16:15), and “His Riches—Our Riches” (2 Corinthians 8:9).

Series Ii(A). Sermons. Folder 3. Sermons, N.D., Melville Homer Cummings

Cummings, Melville Homer, 1890-1978

This folder contains typescripts and handwritten notes for approximately 10 sermons. Titles and texts include “It is Not Good that Man should be Alone” (Gen. 2:18), “A New Commandment I Give unto You” (John 13:34), and a “Commencement Sermon” and “A New Year’s Message” (no texts specified).

Series Ii(A). Sermons. Folder 2. Sermons, N.D., Melville Homer Cummings

Cummings, Melville Homer, 1890-1978

This folder contains typescripts and handwritten notes for approximately 10 sermons. The texts come from both the Old and New Testaments; titles include “How to Get Saved,” “The Blessing of Suffering,” “The Home,” and “After that the Judgment.”

Series Ii(A). Sermons. Folder 1. Sermons Of M. Homer Cummings, 1937-1960, Melville Homer Cummings

Cummings, Melville Homer, 1890-1978

This folder contains typescripts of approximately 10 sermons, some of which appear to be unfinished. Most of the ones that are dated were preached in 1937, with others delivered in 1940, 1941, and 1952.

The texts for the sermons come from throughout the Old and New Testaments. Two of the sermons are about the new year; the rest are on such domestic topics as “the home,” “the mother,” “the wife,” “the father,” and “the ideal husband.”

Series I. Personal Materials. Folder 7. Miscellaneous Material Of Rev. M. Homer Cummings, Melville Homer Cummings

Cummings, Melville Homer, 1890-1978

This folder contains approximately 15 miscellaneous items, including an unfinished sermon on Job; several poems; and ledger pages detailing Cummings’ account with the E. E. White Coal Company of Glen White, WV.

Series I. Personal Materials. Folder 6. Trevecca College Materials, 1959, Melville Homer Cummings

Cummings, Melville Homer, 1890-1978

This folder contains 4 documents from Cummings’ time at Nashville’s Trevecca College (formerly the Literary and Bible Training School and now Trevecca Nazarene University), from which he graduated in 1909. They are an “examination on theology,” what appear to be two versions of an “examination on homiletics,” a sermon on “the consequences of obedience and disobedience,” and the text of a speech he gave upon his graduation (and which he delivered again at Trevecca fifty years later).

Series I. Personal Materials. Folder 5. Training Schoolbooks, 1909-1918, Melville Homer Cummings

Cummings, Melville Homer, 1890-1978

This folder contains 3 documents. One is the Ninth Annual Catalogue of the Literary and Bible Training School in Nashville, Tennessee (later Trevecca College, Cummings’ alma mater). The other two, published in 1913 and 1918, are about the McCrum Slavonic Missionary Training School in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, which operated under the auspices of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Series I. Personal Materials. Folder 4. Methodist Church Conference Materials, N.D., Melville Homer Cummings

Cummings, Melville Homer, 1890-1978

The title of this folder may be somewhat inaccurate. It contains not “church conference materials,” but an essay on hymns, a brief handwritten letter to a Mrs. G. N. Shirey, and typescripts of approximately 10 sermons. Titles and texts include “Taking Offence at Christ” (Luke 7:29), “The Gospel Invitation” (Matthew 11:28-30), and “The Immortality of the Soul” (Job 14:14).

Series I. Personal Materials. Folder 3. Correspondence, 1922-1968, Melville Homer Cummings

Cummings, Melville Homer, 1890-1978

This folder contains one of Cummings’ “Our Weekly Message” newspaper columns and approximately a dozen letters written to or about him. They were composed between 1922 and 1968; topics include an invitation to become the pastor of a church in New Martinsville and several matters related to his hymnwriting work.

Series I. Personal Materials. Folder 2. Articles About Family Of M. Homer Cummings, 1922-1968, Melville Homer Cummings

Cummings, Melville Homer, 1890-1978

This folder contains 4 newspaper articles about members of Cummings’ family. There is a photograph of his grandson and great-grandson (Melville Homer Cummings III and IV) at the Cabell County courthouse on an unspecified election night; an article about Dr. Melville H. Cummings); an article about Lt. M. Homer Cummings, Jr’s experiences in Germany, including a visit to the Nuremberg war trials.

Series I. Personal Materials. Folder 1. Articles About Reverend M. Homer Cummings, 1923-1978, Melville Homer Cummings

Cummings, Melville Homer, 1890-1978

This folder contains approximately 40 newspaper articles about Cummings. The few that include identifying information were published in the Charleston Gazette, the Huntington Herald-Advertiser, and the Coalwood-Caretta News, with dates of publication ranging from 1935 to 1963.

The articles cover such topics as Cummings’ moves from Fayetteville to Williamstown and from Glasgow to Huntington, his 25^th and 50th anniversaries in the ministry, and his work as a composer of hundreds of hymns. The newspapers also published the complete texts of several of his sermons.

Them That Follow, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Them That Follow (2019) directed by Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage.

Bourbon County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names for Bourbon County, Kentucky.

Robert M. Rennick Papers, Robert M. Rennick, Elizabeth Mccombs Rennick

Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections

No abstract provided.

Rowan County News Subject Index, 1935-1959, Rowan County News (Morehead, Ky.)

Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections

No abstract provided.

I Landed A U.F.O. On Main Street: An Autoethnography Of The Founding Of An Arts Education Organization In Appalachian Kentucky, Elise L. Kieffer Phd

Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity

Abstract: The Appalachian region in the southern mid-west has long been the source of stereotyping for dramatic and political affect. Through the course of nine years as a resident in an Appalachian community in south-central Kentucky, the author experienced life as it is lived by the local people. Through the establishment of an art education organization, the author became entwined with local families and became familiar with the origins of many of those stereotypes. Using autoethnography to interpret her experiences, through the lens of academic research, the author will confront the primary issues that surfaced: the acute designation of outsider …

1967 Journal Of The Kentucky Conference The Proceedings Of The One Hundred And Forty-Seventh Session (Twenty-Ninth Session Of The United Church), The Methodist Church

Journal of the Kentucky Conference

No abstract provided.

1960 Journal Of The Kentucky Conference: The Proceedings Of The One Hundred And Fortieth Session (Twenty-Second Session Of The United Church), The Methodist Church

Journal of the Kentucky Conference

No abstract provided.

1957 Journal Of The Kentucky Conference The Proceedings Of The One Hundred And Thirty-Seventh Session (Nineteenth Session Of The United Church), The Methodist Church

Journal of the Kentucky Conference

No abstract provided.

1939 Minutes Of The First Session Of The Kentucky Annual Conference Of The Methodist Church, The Methodist Church

Minutes of the Kentucky Annual Conference

No abstract provided.

1962 Journal Of The Kentucky Conference: The Proceedings Of The One Hundred And Forty-Second Session (Twenty-Fourth Session Of The United Church), The Methodist Church

Journal of the Kentucky Conference

No abstract provided.

1966 Journal Of The Kentucky Conference: The Proceedings Of The One Hundred And Forty-Sixth Session (Twenty-Eight Session Of The United Church), The Methodist Church

Journal of the Kentucky Conference

No abstract provided.

1956 Journal Of The Kentucky Conference The Proceedings Of The One Hundred And Thirty-Sixth Session (Eighteenth Session Of The United Church), The Methodist Church

Journal of the Kentucky Conference

No abstract provided.

1963 Journal Of The Kentucky Conference: The Proceedings Of The One Hundred And Forty-Third Session (Twenty-Fifth Session Of The United Church), The Methodist Church

Journal of the Kentucky Conference

No abstract provided.

1959 Journal Of The Kentucky Conference: The Proceedings Of The One Hundred And Thirty-Ninth Session (Twenty-First Session Of The United Church), The Methodist Church

Journal of the Kentucky Conference

No abstract provided.

1964 Journal Of The Kentucky Conference: The Proceedings Of The One Hundred And Forty-Fourth Session (Twenty-Sixth Session Of The United Church), The Methodist Church

Journal of the Kentucky Conference

No abstract provided.

Mamas, Miners, & Movements: Women And Gendered Labor In Central Appalachia During The 20th Century, Devan M. Mullins

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis seeks to better analyze the contributions and experiences of women within the central Appalachian region through the work they participated in during the 20th century. It lays the foundational understandings of gender roles that crafted the society of the area and connects labor evolution for women within Appalachia and the US as a whole – highlighting similarities and differences. It also discusses Appalachian women’s move from the household to waged labor within the coal mines. Special attention will be paid to the reactions of men and other women to women coal miners to understand what gendered labor means …

Agricultural Livelihoods In Harlan County: A Case Study Approach Of Two Farms, Heather Kinney

Theses and Dissertations--Community & Leadership Development

This thesis explores agricultural livelihoods in Harlan County with two case studies in order to challenge dominant narratives about Eastern Kentucky. Harlan County, and Appalachia more broadly, is often written about in terms of its relationship to extractive industries. Absentee landownership in Appalachia has been well documented, especially in the case of coal counties. However, the relationship between extraction and agricultural livelihoods in Appalachia warrants more attention. The story of agricultural livelihoods in the region is often pushed to the periphery much like the practices of “hillside” farming. While geography makes much of the land unsuitable for farming in Harlan …

1965 Journal Of The Kentucky Conference: The Proceedings Of The One Hundred And Forty-Fifth Session (Twenty-Seventh Session Of The United Church), The Methodist Church

Journal of the Kentucky Conference

No abstract provided.