By Harry Rice
Title: Michael and Carrie Nobel Kline Collection
Predominant Dates:1994-2014
Extent: 129.0 Boxes (General)
Arrangement:
The collection has been arranged in the following series:
Series 1 through 38: audio recordings. Series 39 through 77: project records, photographs, biographical material, and video recordings
Series 1: [information restricted]
Series 2: Walker Calhoun Audio Recordings
Series 3: Calvert County Marine Museum Audio Recordings
Series 4: Calvert County Tobacco Audio Recordings
Series 5: Concord Library Audio Recordings
Series 6: Hampshire County, West Virginia Audio Recordings
Series 7: Currence Hammonds Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 8: Holmes County, Ohio Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 9: Pendleton County, West Virginia Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 10: Pleasant Grove, North Carolina Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 11: Railroading In the Alleghenies Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 12: Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 13: Seneca Rocks Discovery Center Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 14: Staunton – Parkersburg Turnpike Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 15: Steamboat Era Museum Oral Audio Recordings
Series 16: Stonewall Jackson Dam Removal Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 17: Southern Maryland Folklife Audio Recordings
Series 18: Underground Railroad Audio Recordings
Series 19: Tucker County, West Virginia Flood Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 20: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District Audio Recordings
Series 21: Wheeling, West Virginia Spoken History Project Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 22: Western Massachusetts Rural Folklife Audio Recordings
Series 23: Wisconsin Folklife Audio Recordings
Series 24: BBC-TV Wales Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 25: Blair Mountain March 2011 Audio Recordings
Series 26: Gas Rush Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 27: Whipple Company Store Audio Recordings
Series 28: Appalachian Volunteers
Series 29: Go Tell It On the Mountain: Cross Cultural Workshop Audio Recordings
Series 30: Forest Service – Southern Arts Federation Audio Recordings Listen On Line
Series 31: Grundy, Virginia Floods Audio Recordings
Series 32: Listening For A Change Audio Recordings
Series 33: Miscellaneous Audio Recordings Listen To Selected Recordings Online
Series 34: Appalachia General Audio Recordings
Series 35: Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection Audio Recordings
Series 36: Fern Rollyson Collection Audio Recordings
Series 37: Ireland Audio Recordings
Series 38: Reel-To-Reel Audio Tape Listen To Selected Recordings Online
Documentation Projects Records, Photographs and Biographical Material
Series 39: [information restricted]
Series 40: Walker Calhoun
Series 41: Calvert County Marine Museum
Series 42: Calvert County Tobacco
Series 43: Concord, Massachusetts Free Public Library
Series 44: Hampshire County, West Virginia
Series 45: Currence Hammonds
Series 46: Holmes County, Ohio
Series 47: Pendleton County, West Virginia
Series 48: Pleasant Grove, North Carolina Community Listening Project
Series 49: Railroading In the Alleghenies Listening Project
Series 50: Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Series 51: Seneca Rocks Discovery Center Recording Project
Series 52: Staunton – Parkersburg Turnpike Audio History Project
Series 53: Steamboat Era Museum Oral History Project
Series 54: Stonewall Jackson Dam Removal
Series 55: Southern Maryland Folklife Project
Series 56: Underground Railroad
Series 57: Tucker County, West Virginia Flood
Series 58: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District
Series 59: Wheeling, West Virginia National Heritage Area Spoken History Project
Series 60: Western Massachusetts Rural Folklife Project
Series 61: Wisconsin Folklife Project
Series 62: BBC-TV Wales
Series 63: Blair Mountain March 2011
Series 64: Forest Service – Southern Arts Federation
Series 65: Gas Rush
Series 66: Go Tell It On the Mountain: Cross Cultural Workshop
Series 67: Grundy, Virginia Floods
Series 68: Whipple Company Store
Series 69: Listening For A Change
Series 70: Subject Files
Series 71: Interview Releases and Logs
Series 72: Michael and Carrie Kline Biographical
Series 73: Photographs
Series 74: Oversize Newspapers
Series 75: Video Recordings
Series 76: Photographs On Compact Discs
Series 77: Kline – Nobel Family Audio Recordings
Date Acquired: 04/28/2015
Subjects: Calhoun, Walker., Fayette County (W. Va.), Floods -- West Virginia., Gilmer County (W. Va.), Hammonds, Currence., Hampshire County (W. Va.), Hydraulic fracturing., Lewis County (W. Va.), Maryland -- Calvert County., Maryland -- Charles County., Maryland -- St. Mary's County., Massachusetts -- Concord (Town)., Massachusetts -- Lowell (Town)., Middle Peninsula (Va.), North Carolina -- Alamance County., Northern Neck (Va.), Occaneechi Indians., Ohio -- Holmes County., Ohio County (W. Va.), Pendleton County (W. Va.), Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill County., Pochahontas County (W. Va.), Randolph County (W. Va.), Ritchie County (W. Va.), Smithsonian Folklife Festival., Tucker County (W. Va.), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers., Underground Railroad -- Ohio., Upshur County (W. Va.), Virginia -- Buchanan County., Wheeling (W. Va.), Wood County (W. Va.)
These are records of West Virginia folklorists and musicians Michael and Carrie Nobel Kline. Their work is mainly in the form of folklife and oral history documentation of social issues, communities, events, and people.
The collection consists mainly of interview and music performance audio recordings, photographs and interview transcripts related to their extensive work in West Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Massachusetts.
Digital preservation of the recordings in Series 9, 12, 13, 14, 21 and selected ones in Series 33 and 38 was made possible by a Recordings-At-Risk grant from the Council On Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The CLIR grant program is made possible by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Calhoun, Walker.
Fayette County (W. Va.)
Floods -- West Virginia.
Gilmer County (W. Va.)
Hammonds, Currence.
Hampshire County (W. Va.)
Hydraulic fracturing.
Lewis County (W. Va.)
Maryland -- Calvert County.
Maryland -- Charles County.
Maryland -- St. Mary's County.
Massachusetts -- Concord (Town).
Massachusetts -- Lowell (Town).
Middle Peninsula (Va.)
North Carolina -- Alamance County.
Northern Neck (Va.)
Occaneechi Indians.
Ohio -- Holmes County.
Ohio County (W. Va.)
Pendleton County (W. Va.)
Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill County.
Pochahontas County (W. Va.)
Randolph County (W. Va.)
Ritchie County (W. Va.)
Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Tucker County (W. Va.)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Underground Railroad -- Ohio.
Upshur County (W. Va.)
Virginia -- Buchanan County.
Wheeling (W. Va.)
Wood County (W. Va.)
Repository: Berea College Special Collections and Archives Catalog
Access Restrictions: The collection can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College. Some portions of the collection are restricted from research use. Those materials are marked in the inventory.
Use Restrictions:
The Donors retain all copyrights and intellectual property rights pertaining to the Materials for a period not to exceed 30 years. The donors grant to the College permission to use the materials for research or non-commercial purposes. Any commercial use must have the permission of the donors. On or before January 1, 2047, all copyrights and intellectual property rights pertaining to the materials will transfer to the college as an integral part of this gift.
This collection includes materials that were created as “work for hire” and copyright for those materials may be held by other entities.
Copies made for commercial broadcast or publication require the permission of the donor until January 1, 2047. After that time, they will require the permission of the Berea College Special Collections and Archives.
In addition, Michael and Carrie Nobel Kline worked to validate and dignify the voices of those they documented. The spoken testimonials from southern mountain people historically have little overlap with most written accounts about them by missionaries, sociologists, regional planners and feature writers, whose stereotyping and assumptions often work against progressive human development in the region. In contrast, the material in this collection is meant to be used to affirm the diverse experiences of all who are documented within it.
Utilization of the materials from the Collection require careful consideration and respect towards all the people whose voices and images may be used. Commercial users must make a good faith effort to contact the interviewee for permission to use their recorded voices and images before including them in any production or written materials.
The Guide to the Michael and Carrie Nobel Kline Collection by Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, is made available for public use under Creative Commons license CC0 1.0: Universal Public Domain (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0). No rights reserved.
Technical Access Note: Most, but not all of the audio materials have listening copies. Please contact Special Collections in advance to ascertain if a listening copy already exists.
Acquisition Source: Donated by Michael and Carrie Nobel Kline
Acquisition Method: Deed of gift, signed 3/17/17.
Processing Information: Processed by Harry Rice
Other Note: Collection number: BCA 0258
This series consists of original minidisc and DAT interview recordings resulting from the Klines' 2007-2008 work for the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike Alliance.
Themes covered ranged from Native American life, Revolutionary and Civil Wars, gristmills, waterways, slavery and the Underground Railroad, coal mining, timbering and the oil and gas boom, as well as family and community life. Recording excerpts were originally used to produce a seven CD audio history highlighting life along the Turnpike.
Digital preservation of these interviews was made possible by a Recordings-At-Risk grant from the Council On Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The CLIR grant program is made possible by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Randy Allan; 4/21/99
Nancy Allman; Cox Mills, WV; 11/13/07
Richard L. Armstrong; Civil War Campaigns of West Virginia; 7/11/99
Denver Barnett; 2/10/99. West Virginia Civil War History.
Jason Bauserman, Bartow, Pocahontas County, WV; 6/9/99
Phyllis Baxter; Turnpike History; 11/12/99
Phyllis Baxter and Mike Smith; Conclusion; 1/2/01
Paul M. Beckner; Cisco, WV Farm Life; 10/05/07
Howard Bennett; Beverly, WV Recollections; 7/13/00
Paul and Dottie Bibbee; Bibbee Farm; 2/19/08
Ruth Brinker, Heritage Resource Specialist; Monongahela National Forest Prehistory; 11/2/98
Ruth Brinker, Heritage Resource Specialist; Monongahela National Forest Prehistory; 11/2/98.
Katharine L. Brown; Families on Juliana Street in Parkersburg, WV; 11/14/07
Sophronia Brownfield; 11/11/98
Paul A. Borrelli; 7000 Parkersburg photos; 2/17/08
Sandra Moats Burke; 9/5/07; Unerground Railroad along the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike.
Listen To Interview Read Transcript
Beth Cahape / Tim Caudill; 12/27/98. Cahape: Civil War battle of Philippi in Barbour County. Caudill: Family history in Mingo County.
Richard L. Cook; Looking back at Parkersburg, WV and the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike; 10/04/07
Grace Collins; Durbin, WV history; 9/1/99
Grace Collins; Durbin, WV history, Conclusion; 9/1/99
Bernice Knutti Cox; Life in Alpena and Huttonsville, WV; 2/1/99
Leta Bell Cox; "Life up the Valley" (Tygart Valley Homestead) 4/28/00
Madeline Crickard; 1/5/99
Jacob W. Currence, Cassidy, WV (aged 101 at the time.) 2/17/00. Growing up in the High Germany area of Randolph County, WV.
Listen To Recording Part 1 Listen To Recording Part 2 Read Transcript
Frances M. Davis; Life on Clay Street in Parkersburg, WV; 2/18/08
Ralph Davis, McFarlan, Ritdhie County; Gas Industry Antiquities and the Laurel Run Farm; 9/04/07
Stephen DeBruler; Oil and Gas at Camden Station, WV; 11/14/07
Ellen Flint Dolly; Tygart Valley Homestead History; 5/7/00
Rita (Marks) Emerson & Phyllis Marks, Glenville, WV; 1/23/99 (Phyllis Marks audio misplaced. See KK-CT-025-051 in Serries 33)
Listen To Recording Read Transcript Rita Marks Read Transcript Phyllis Marks
Robert Enoch; Sue Enoch Masters (Robert's sister) at her home in Nicholette, WV; 10/04/07
Listen To Recording Read Transcript
Mike Evans; Sings two songs; "Dead Men's Hollow" and "Courthouse Cave."2/17/08
Ruth M. Furr; Smithville near Burnt House, Ritchie County, WV; Growing up in Dutchman, WV. 9/04/07
"Holding Rugged Ground" Civil War on Turnpike; 8/21/00 (Non Interview Recording)
Mason Hart; 11/17/98
Virgil Hart; Growing up at Hazelwood, WV; 11/20/98
Jim Haught, Growing up in Beatrice, Ritchie County, WV; 9/06/07
JoAnn D. Hefner; Nicholette, WV stories; 11/6/07
Battle of Camp Allegheny / Battle of Allegheny Mountain Interpretive Plaque read by Michael Kline. (Non Interview Recording)
Sidney Jackson; 9/1/99
Sidney Jackson; 12/9/98
Elma Jean Woofter, Troy, WV; 11/28/07
Virginia Bird Johnson; Growing up in the Chenoweth Creek area. 2/22/00
Gary P. Jones; Freeport - Walker, WV; 11/6/07
Emory Kemp; Director of the Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology at West Virginia University. 11/16/98. Western Virginia Geography.
Ann Kingsolver; Monterrey, VA, Frank and Elkins, WV; 10/29/98
Squire Bosworth Kittle; Farming, timbering. Great Depression, Civilian Conservation Corps. 1/27/00
Squire Bosworth Kittle; "The Tygart Valley Homestead and Great Depression" 2/4/00
Annie "Nancy" Kittle; Life in Mill Creek, WV. 1/27/00
John T. Law, From Weston to Alum Bridge, WV; 2/19/08
Hunter Lesser; Second Interview; 11/14/00
Hunter Lesser; #1; 11/6/98
Hunter Lesser; #2; 11/6/98
Elizabeth Lutz; Oakland (James McNeil Stephenson House), Parkersburg, WV; 11/07/07
Gerry Milnes about battle of Rich Mountain and Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike Authority; 10/28/98
Freda G. Morris; Life in Beatrice, WV; 10/04/07
Winifred Hoyt Murray; Little Kanawha Hotel in Elizabeth, WV; 10/03/07
Lillian Phillips (1921-2007); 3/1/2000.
Bertha Fitch Plyler; Growing up in Bartow, Pocahontas County, WV. 3/30/00
Jessie Beard Powell 12/9/98. Travelers Repose Inn, Pocahontas County
Jessie Beard Powell, 1/17/99. Travelers’ Repose Inn, Pocahontas County
Libby Randall; Life in Buchannon, WV; 11/27/07
Edna and Raymond Wilfong 6/9/99; Growing up in the Durbin and Frank communities of Pocahontas County.
Rich Mountain String Band 5/13/99: Mary Caraher on fiddle, Les Caraher on banjo, Peter Baxter on guitar, and Phyllis Baxter on flute and pennywhistle. Vocals by Mary, Les, and Peter. Edited from KK-DT-005-068.
Rich Mountain String Band 5/13/99: Mary Caraher on fiddle, Les Caraher on banjo, Peter Baxter on guitar, and Phyllis Baxter on flute and pennywhistle. Vocals by Mary, Les, and Peter. Discussion and rehearsal of pieces on KK-DT-005-067.
Rich Mountain Battlefield Living History; Re-enactment of Civil War Life; 7/10/99
James E. Richards; Oil Field Life; 11/7/07
Mary Lee Richards; Vienna, WV. 11/7/07
Thomas D. Rinehart; Leachville, Wirt County. Family Farm in Walker, W.V; 10/3/07
Dr. T.R. Ross (1919-2009); Henry Gasaway Davis and other Davis and Elkins College founders; 2/6/01
Jim Schoonover; 6/30/00
David Scott; Harrisville, Ritchie County, WV Historian; 9/05/07
Listen To Recording Read Transcript Carlin 1865 Diary Transcription
Jane Price Sharp; William P. McNeal; 2/19/99. Marlinton, Pocahontas County.
Michael A. Smith; Superintendent Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park; 11/10/99
Michael Smith; Beverly, WV; 6/28/00
Nancy Sorrells; Staunton, VA history; 11/8/99
Joy Stalnaker, Lewis County, WV Historian; Weston, WV Memories; 1/04/08
Mary Marjorie (Freed) States, From Leachtown to Parkersburg, WV; 2/18/08
Anna Lee Stull; Growing up on the Jackson Farm at Cisco, WV; 10/05/07
Philip Sturm PhD, Ohio Valley College; Slavery in Western Virginia; 10/05/07
Velma Sutton; Mary Smith; 6/9/99. (sisters). Growing up in Durbin, Pocahontas County.
Ronald Ray Swick; Blennerhasset Island Museum; 11/29/07
Duke Talbott; Western Turnpike Regions ; 9/10/07.
Noel W. Tenney; Upshur County, WV Historical Society; 12/4/07
Don Teter; 11/5/98
Don Teter; 4/2/01
Don Teter; 4/12/98
Don Teter; Reading From Field Notes; 11/19/98
Don Teter; "Mount Porte Crayon" (A mountain in the Roaring Plains Wilderness of the Monongahela National Forest in Randolph County, West Virginia;) 2/7/01
Don Teter; Toll Records; 1 of 2; 12/17/98
Don Teter; Toll Records; 2 of 2; 12/17/98
Don Teter; Tape 1 of 3; 2/9/99
Don Teter; Tape 2 of 3; 2/9/99
Don Teter; Tape 3 of 3; 2/9/99
Victor Thacker; Talks about the book "French Harding Civil War Memoirs" which he edited; 12/14/00
William A. Tolin; 4/15/99. U.S Fish and Wild Life Service.
David A. Vago; Historic Beverly, WV; 11/02/07
Bill Weber; Beverly, WV Memories; 5/2/00
Bill Wellington; with Michael Kline at home in Staunton, VA; singing "Jordan is a Hard Road to Travel" 5/31/99
Damon West; Weston to Troy, WV; 11/15/07
E.C. Whanger; Durbin, WV History; 9/1/99
Helen Stewart Wilfong, Barton, WV; 9/1/99
Frank Williams; Buchannon, WV Life and Times; 11/29/07
Holding Rugged Ground: Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike and the Civil War - SAFETY COPY
Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike and The Logging Boom - SAFETY COPY
Switch Backs and Wagon Tracks - SAFETY COPY
Sounds - Horses, Bells, Cars
Sounds - Dixie - Bob Dunkerly Drums
Mary Garrell (born 1919); 9/5/07.
Mary Garrell (born 1919); 9/5/07
David McCain 11/8/07. California (Ghost Town in Wirt County, WV)
Eleanor Rinehart, Leachtown; 10/3/07; Disc 1 of 2
Eleanor Rinehart, Leachtown; 10/3/07; Disc 2 of 2
Steven E. Lehew - Leachtown, WV and the Old Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpikepike.
"Variety Pack" (String Band) recorded 8-30-08 by Carrie Kline. Two Songs - Schoolhouse on the Hill by Jim Tucker and Marbletown by Ben Carr.
Voices of Triumph Gospel Community Choir recorded 12-12-08 by Carrie Kline at Zion Baptist Church, Parkersburg, WV. (Non Interview Recording)
Danny & Linda Mullens; Oldtime music recorded 12-12-08 by Carrie Kline at their home on Kites Run, Wood County WV. (Non Interview Recording)
Leonard & Jim Stalnaker - Music Session 8-30-08
Voices of the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike: Volume One - Switchbacks and Wagon Tracks
(Published Recording - Listening Only In Archives)
Voices of the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike: Volume Two - Holding Rugged Ground
(Published Recording - Listening Only In Archives)
Voices of the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike: Volume Three - We'd All Be Millionaires if We Had It Now
(Published Recording - Listening Only In Archives)
Voices of the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike: Volume Four - Model T's and Model Roads
(Published Recording - Listening Only In Archives)
Voices of the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike: Volume Five - The Old Stagecoach Line
(Published Recording - Listening Only In Archives)
Voices of the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike: Volume Six - Took Off Running
(Published Recording - Listening Only In Archives)
Voices of the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike: Volume Seven - Old Virginians & Wildcatters
(Published Recording - Listening Only In Archives)
Interview excerpts with music and sound effects. Markings on CD are "Mud Sleds", Real Time Dub 12-19-08.
