Harriette Simpson Arnow: 1908-1986 collection, c.1988
Sub-Series (ap.afc.06.20)
- Extent
- 24 Film containers
- 32 Audio tapes
- 5 Video cassettes
- 6 Audio cassettes
- 5 Photo prints
- 1 Boxes
- Part of
- Appalshop Films Collection, 1969-2015 > Series VI. Appalshop Films/Headwaters Television, 1984-1990 > Harriette Simpson Arnow: 1908-1986 collection, c.1988
- Scope and Contents
- Contains material related to the color documentary Harriet Simpson Arnow: 1908 – 1986, a 1988 release. The film profiles writer Simpson Arnow and includes interviews filmed not long before her death. In interviews Arnow describes the basic biographical details of her life and discusses her experience teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in her native Pulaski County, Kentucky; how she left the mountains looking for work and an opportunity to write; and of the difficulties of finding the time and energy to write while raising a family on an Appalachian farm and later in wartime Detroit. Subjects include Appalachian women, social life and customs, economic conditions, and literature of the Appalachian region.
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