- No105
Laurel Falls Camp-recordings
The Laurel Falls Camp Recordings Collection consists of 105 78-rpm lacquer discs and magnetic tapes that were discovered in storage areas at the Camp. The discs were recorded using a direct-to-disc recorder that Lillian Smith probably purchased in 1939, since one of the discs has the date 1939 handwritten on its label.
More About This Collection
Creator
Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966
Contributor to Resource
Titus, Joan
Klein, Arthur Luce
Snelling, Paula
Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008
Lavonia Harmonizers
Rabun County Choir
Snelling, Paula
Date of Original
1925/1949
Subject
Camps--Georgia--Rabun County
Laurel Falls Camp for Girls (Ga.)
Buss-Eye (Fictitious character)
Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966. The journey
Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966. Strange Fruit (unpublished play)
Marvin, Edgar, 1924-. City of Light.
Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966. Our faces, our words.
Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966. Strange Fruit
Talladega College
Chechero Creek--Stream--Rabun County--Georgia
Johnson, James Weldon. God's trombones.
Julius Rosenwald Fund
Mennonites
Screamer Mountain--Rabun County--Georgia
Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966. Memory of a large Christmas.
Time-Life Broadcast
University of Mississippi
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
White, Helen Constance, 1896-1967. The metaphysical poets
People
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008
Lewis, John L., 1858-1913
Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966
Snelling, Paula
Location
United States, Georgia, Rabun County, Clayton, 34.87815, -83.40099
Medium
lacquer discs
magnetic tapes
Type
Sound
Description
The Laurel Falls Camp Recordings Collection consists of 105 78-rpm lacquer discs and magnetic tapes that were discovered in storage areas at the Camp. The discs were recorded using a direct-to-disc recorder that Lillian Smith probably purchased in 1939, since one of the discs has the date 1939 handwritten on its label. These recordings contain everything from plays that campers wrote for banquets to musical performances at HBCUs, to stories about the camp's trickster character, Buss Eye. Included also are important recordings of Lillian Smith reading from her works and commenting on them. They are important for Lillian Smith studies because they shine a never-before-seen light on her as director of Laurel Falls Camp for Girls. Smith saw herself as an progressive educator for her young women and exposed them to challenging ideas on many topics, including race relations and the South as place and what it meant for women to claim enhanced and expanded lives in the contemporary world. Printed and manuscript correspondence, internal memos, and marketing materials exist that attest to Smith's ideas, as do the texts of some of the plays she and her campers and counselors produced. Extensive collections of such materials are held in the important Smith archives at University of Georgia or the University of Florida. But the audio recordings in Piedmont University Library's Laurel Falls Camp recordings collection contribute more details to the picture of how Lillian Smith and her Laurel Falls Camp enhanced the lives of young women from 1925-1949.
Language
eng
Holding Institution
Piedmont College. Library
Rights
