Well, the search is still on. This summer I finished my work at the Appalachian College Association and that position has ended. I have been applying and interviewing for several positions at various institutions. I had some interviews in Virginia which left me feeling quite positive and hopeful. The verdict is still out on the course of those three positions. I am interviewing in mid-September in Oklahoma at a museum, which will be a great adventure in itself. In the meantime, I am applying for more positions, reviewing online archival journals, practicing my banjo, making jewelry, and visiting with friends.

I am also writing a lot about the Delta farmland of Mississippi. This has become the environment in my poems lately, with themes of finding and losing things, people, relationships, and the burial and resurfacing of these as well. Somewhere I once read that you, as a writer, have to leave a place in order to write about it. I think this is true. I have been in Kentucky since September of 2004 and have only just now started writing poetry which calls forth the environment of the Delta, the attitudes and culture of the Mississippi South. I grew up in central Mississippi, yes, but I read books by Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, and Tennessee Williams. I've always attributed that idea to Eudora Welty, but Thomas Jefferson says something similar: "Perhaps we must leave a place before we know how it has touched us."

"Archivist steals historic artifacts from the New York State Library: authorities"
BY JOE GOULD, JOE MAHONEY and DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Tuesday, January 29th 2008, 4:00 AM

A state archivist looted a treasure-trove of historic artifacts from the New York State Library - including documents about Davy Crockett - and hawked them to pay off his daughter's credit card debt, authorities said.

Daniel Lorello is accused of stealing a $3,000 Davy Crockett almanac, an 1823 letter from statesman John C. Calhoun and other artifacts to auction them off on eBay.

"This crime is especially repugnant, because it's dealing with historic documents," state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Monday. "It's literally stealing the legacy of the State of New York page by page."

The light-fingered librarian began his crime spree to pay for household bills and a $10,000 credit card bill run up by his daughter, Maria, authorities said.

He swiped a few items over the years, but his theft escalated last year when he realized the state might install security cameras in the Albany archive office where he worked, authorities said.

"I took things on an as-needed basis to pay family bills, such as house renovations, car bills, tuition and my daughter's credit card problem," Lorello wrote in a statement released by Cuomo.

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Photos of the archives
University Archives and Special Collections
Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum

The Lincoln Memorial University Archives and Special Collections is housed in the Carnegie Vincent Library on campus. The College Archives, Personal Papers, Photograph, College Artifacts, Audio, and Video Collections are stored here, along with the Rare Books & Special Collections. The College Archives Collections includes administrative records and material created by faculty, staff, students, alumni and college departments, totaling 138 boxes, 60 books, 15 binders, 5 file cabinets, and several feet of loose materials stored openly on the shelves. The Personal Papers Collections spans over 84 boxes in which the manuscripts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and biographical information of particularly important individuals of Lincoln Memorial University's history or of regional interest, such as Jesse Stuart, Tex Turner, and Bert Vincent. The Photograph Collections include an expansive collection of college-related photographs from alumni in 29 boxes, plus 36 framed photographs and similar materials. A number of artifacts are displayed throughout the room on bookshelves alongside the rare books. These include wooden sculptures, three dulcimers, and several awards and plaques, to a sum of sixteen displayed artifacts. The Audio and Video Collections amass to 38 tapes (audio cassettes and reel-to-reel recordings) and 86 VHS tapes, plus one large movie reel.

The Rare Books & Special Collections displayed prominently on bookshelves in this room totals 5269 books, plus twenty-six books in very poor condition, stacked on each other. Lastly, only four boxes are listed as unprocessed materials in this room.
The Lincoln Memorial Library and Museum stores collections and items in several rooms throughout the building aside from the artifacts on display in the museum. The Vault stores the bulk of the research collection housed here, totaling 330 boxes. This includes manuscripts, personal papers and correspondence of individuals at Lincoln Memorial University and in the region, newspapers and clippings, scrapbooks and photograph albums, etc. Within this vault there is also ten locked cabinets storing the most monetarily valuable items in the collection, plus another nineteen artifacts, twenty-eight books, and several shelves of loose materials wait for processing and cataloging. The Rare Books stored in the vault is estimated around 4765 books, and this is complemented by an interesting and massive collection of 1480 pamphlets. The large Vertical Files/Subject Files encompasses ten file cabinets. These files cover newspaper clippings, magazines, articles, addresses and speeches, and various individuals and authors of interest to the university and region. It is actively accessed and maintained as its dates span the 1880s to the present.
The Artifacts Room stores framed paintings, artwork, hanging sculptures, and a variety of Civil War period artifacts. The paintings and sculpture hang on screens for better accessibility and visibility, which in turn protects their surfaces better from settling dust. The items in this room total 151. The Basement contains around 380 items, including paintings and other artifacts of the Civil War period, but these are being stored for the meantime on shelves and tables until they can be incorporated into the collection. Some are duplicates or may not be appropriate to the current collections.

Two more rooms which house book collections is the Office and Reading Area Room and the Daughters of the Union Reading Room. Books shelved and displayed in these rooms totals around 4310 books, plus six items on display in the Daughters of the Union Reading Room. The Large Artifacts and Material Culture Room contains large furniture pieces such as chairs and tables. Most of the thirteen items here are of significance, but also need repair which explains why they are not currently on display in the Museum. The Museum rooms contains 415 items, which includes paintings, sculptures, furniture, china, medals, manuscripts, cannonballs, Civil War period uniforms of both the Confederacy and Union, a wagon, and numerous artifacts which were noted to once have been Abraham Lincoln's own possessions or once used by him.

Photos of the archives
Carl A. Rudisill Library

Recently Lenoir-Rhyne College's library has accepted the generous gift of Thomas Cass Ballenger's personal and congressional papers. This collection totals at least 95 boxes of unprocessed and uncatalogued materials. Ballenger represented North Carolina's tenth Congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1986 to 2005. The collection consists of his papers and memorabilia, including plaques, awards, gifts, medals, ribbons, photos, trophies, press clippings, videotapes, audio (reel-to-reel, cassettes, etc.), radio shows, a framed "Great Seal of North Carolina", and many government publications. It is currently kept in a large storage room and accessed only by library staff.
The Lenoir-Rhyne College Archives consists of record groups that are listed as Trustees, Faculty and Staff, Student Life, Library, President, Academic Administration, Intercollegiate Athletics, Administration and Finance, Institutional Advancement, Admissions and Student Financial Aid, Individuals and Families, Affiliated Institutions, etc. It also includes records and publications of the Lutheran Women Society, 1920s – 1970s. This collection totals 45 boxes. As with all college archives, there are several copies of The Hacawa, the yearbook, kept on shelf, numbering 200 books.
There is a small collection of 75 cassette tapes with titles Traces II, 1985; An Oral History of Lenoir-Rhyne College; Echoes: Toward a History of Public Education in the Uniform Area, 1977. The Lenoir-Rhyne Choir and Lenoir-Rhyne Presidential Inauguration of 1950 are some of the college events preserved on the fourteen film reels. One microfilm records the Walter W. Lenoir personal diary, 1839-1861, while the original is kept at Duke University at Durham, North Carolina. Twenty-one VHS tapes record campus-wide events and activities from the 1980s and 1990s. Assessment documents for SACS, 1995-2000 and 2002, including institutional self study reports, are housed in twenty-seven binders. Artifacts and memorabilia from former presidents, alumni, faculty, and buildings total 130 items.

The book collections total 580 books, which include the Collected Works of Karl Claudius Garrison, various ledgers, bound Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes, Lenoir-Rhyne College catalogs, and bound issues of the student newspaper The Lenoirian. This also includes an extensive collection of rare books which includes the Luther Werke, among other religious and theological texts.

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James H. Carson Library & Information Center

The Alison Stirling Collection, named after Lees-McRae College's first librarian in 1929, was established with the aim of preserving a variety of materials relating to the Southern Appalachian region. One of Stirling's goals was to create a special North Carolina and Appalachian Collection in full accord with the college’s motto: “In, of, and for the mountains.” The collection has proven to be a lasting benefit to a succession of researchers, authors, journalists, students and faculty. The book collection alone numbers 9920 books.
The cataloged material in the Stirling, also known as the North Carolina Room, includes books, pamphlets, sound recordings (folk music and tales and field interviews), videotapes, and 620 microfilms of local area newspapers. Most of the uncatalogued materials consist of loose clippings, brochures, leaflets and other such media in the collection’s vertical files. A subject guide to the vertical files identifies general categories. A series of box files preserves materials on topics with a proliferating literature or of a particular interest (items relating to Lees-McRae founder Edgar Tufts, for example). Other uncatalogued material includes maps and prints. Boxes storing these materials total 440, including the boxes stored in the lower basement of the library containing the college archives and histories, mostly uncatalogued and unprocessed materials from the 1920s through 1950s. An additional 262 records, 24 tapes, and 26 film reels contribute to the collection.

The collection contains many artifacts; these range from an impressive hand-built lathe once used in the campus woodworking shop to pottery by famed North Carolina master potter Ben Owen. The collection doubles, then, as a campus museum. Total number of artifacts throughout the collection both in the North Carolina Room and in the lower basement is 422 items. Also in the North Carolina Room and in the basement there are twenty-two file cabinets housing various college-related documents such as memos, handbooks, manuals, brochures, personnel files, and reports. One map case resides in the North Carolina room storing newspapers, an Earl Dotter portfolio of twenty prints, In Mine and Mill, 1979, diplomas, maps, posters by students, and geological and land surveys for North Carolina and the surrounding Banner Elk area.

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E.W. King Library

At King College the Historical Collections Room contains the John Doak Tadlock Collection of items related to King College, including the archives of the college, documents chronicling the history of southern Presbyterianism, and a modest collection of local and regional history items. Special or rare books, some especially illustrative of the history of printing and binding, are also housed in this room. The collection is organized and maintained by a retired professor as he volunteers time to the processing and arranging of items.
A total number of 1670 books resides in the Historical Collections Room with the archived college collections. The book collection not only includes rare books and a few incunabula, but also the individual book collections donated by various college presidents, professors, and organizations. Some of these include Joseph Anderson, Reverend David Tully, James Doak Tadlock, James King, William King, Burt Reid Smith, and college literary societies. There are also books for the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) 1915-1973, and the Original Records of the Board of Trustees and Curators of King College.

The college historical collections consists of 570 boxes of documents, manuscripts, diaries, personal papers, self studies, class schedules, catalogs, literary societies and student organizations. The collections are in depth and very well organized, containing a wealth of information about King College, its founders, and early presidents. An additional fifty binders and ten folders store other materials complementary to these individual collections, usually protecting letters and importance documents in sheet protectors. There's also twenty memorabilia items reflecting the college's school spirit, and ten reel-to-reel tapes of speeches and sermons from Robert Todd Lapsley Liston, once President of King College, 1943-1960. Some loose materials are stored openly on the shelves

Photos of the archival collections
Hardwick Johnston Memorial Library

The library at Hiwassee College houses some of the artifacts and documents collections available at Hiwassee College, but the bulk of the collections are on display in the Administrative Building, Business Office, and the Museum. The book collection includes a variety of scrap-books, family histories in bound book form, newspaper clippings books, disciplines, Holston Conference journals, and a diary, totaling 506 books. The artifacts which are housed in the display case in Ms. Miller's office consist of autograph books, graduation medals, hymnals, and college catalogs. Also stored in the lower cabinet of the display case are fourteen binders of the Gilbreath original correspondence from the late 1800s to early 1900s.

A total of 232 artifacts of Native American origin can be found on display in the Administrative Building Conference Room and in box storage in the Museum and Business Office. The items include arrowheads, spear points, necklaces, figurines, bowls, effigies, baskets, etc. Artifacts are of the Mississippian period and tribes represented include Quapaw, Nodena, Caddo, Hopewell, Cherokee, etc. Other items represent Mexican and Southwestern origin. The museum is also where various items related to the history of Hiwassee College, the founding families, and other artifacts like a spinning wheel, scrapbooks, cornerstone, college memorabilia like beanies and sweaters, and photo albums. This totals to 132 items, sixteen boxes, a file cabinet, and 105 records.

Photos of the archives, Blue Ridge Institute, and Blue Ridge Farm Museum
Ferrum College Stanley Library website
Blue Ridge Institute website

Ferrum College has the Stanley Library and the Blue Ridge Institute to provide its students and researchers for scholarly use. The Stanley Library's John Wesley II and Oneida Wingfield Inge Methodist History Room holds the rare books collection housed at Ferrum College. These collections include the College Special Collection, the Stiwell Collection, the Methodist History Collection, and the Lippincott Documents Collection. This includes 2226 books, three boxes, and a cabinet for flat storage. The College Special Collection books are bound faculty meeting minutes, college bulletins and catalogs, College President reports, board of trustees minutes, yearbooks, and numerous books related to town, county, state, and regional history, religious studies, Civil War period, and folklore. Regional books focus on history and culture of Virginia. The Methodist History Collection contains Methodist hymnals, explanatory notes, and journals pertaining to the Methodist Church and the Methodist Conference. The Stiwell Collection also contains books and materials relating to the Methodist Church and the Methodist Conference. Several boxes contain annuals for Baltimore and Virginia Conferences. The Lippincott Documents Collection contains military and other documents covering part of the career of Lt. General Jean Leonard Francois LeMarois, a French Army officer. Twenty letters are unsigned but addressed to Madame Germaine De Stael.

Stored in two other rooms in Stanley Library are the College Archives, Carthan F. Currin, III, Collection, T. Keister Greer Collection, Governor & Mrs. Thomas B. Stanley Archive, Franklin County Arial Photo Land Use Surveys, and Local Subject Files. The College Archives is dedicated to the early college records, college subject files, photograph collections, newspapers and periodicals collections, memorabilia and artifacts, and over-sized items. The Carthan F. Currin, III, Collection contains records from the office of the Executive Director of the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission, 1999. The Governor & Mrs. Thomas B. Stanley Archive includes numerous artifacts, albums of correspondence and news clippings, a nameplate, engraved gavel, a cabinet of photos, twenty large scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, an engraved letter opener and scissors. The T. Keister Greer Collection is comprised of his papers and manuscripts for the research of his book. The Franklin County Aerial Photo Land Use Surveys report on the years 1937, 1955, 1959, 1971, plus 1955 enlargements. The Local Subject Files include files relating to the Methodist Church, Franklin County and surrounding area, Lord's Acre, and the Dame's Club. These collections total 33 boxes, nineteen books, twelve large file cabinets, one over-sized flat storage case, 31 binders, and loose artifacts and materials.

The Blue Ridge Institute and Museum was established by Ferrum College in the early 1970s to document, interpret, and present the folk heritage of the Blue Ridge region. Since that time the Institute has grown steadily, expanding its programming, research, and fieldwork throughout Virginia while maintaining an emphasis upon the western portion of the state. In recognition of its contributions to the public's understanding of the heritage of Virginia, the Institute was designated the State Center for Blue Ridge Folklore by Governor Gerald Baliles and the Virginia State Legislature in 1986. The BRI actively collects photographs, video recordings, audio recordings, books, and documents related to the folklife of the Blue Ridge, Appalachia, and Virginia as a whole. Among the many gems in the collection are the Galax Old-Time Fiddlers Convention tapes, the vast Elmer Smith Collection of Shenandoah Valley folklore, and Virginia's premier collection of African-American folk music. Used by scholars, museums, teachers, and students, the archive is open to anyone interested in regional folk culture.
The collections housed in the Blue Ridge Institute include the 78 r.p.m. Records, LP Records Collection, Galax Old-Time Fiddlers' Convention, 7" Reel-to-Reel Audio Recordings, over 700 books and periodicals, VHS and U-Matic Collection, Exhibit Collections, Historical Documents Collection, Brochures and Pamphlets Collection, Masters Collection, Canning Labels Collection, Elmer Smith Photograph Collection, Leon Stanley Collection, Slide Cataloging Index, James Taylor Adams Collection, and the Beckham Photo Collection, 1921-1923, among several other smaller collections.

The items in these collections at the Blue Ridge Institute total these estimated sums: 2421 records; 744 LPs; 1100 reel-to-reel tapes (both 10" and 7"); 245 VHS tapes; 110 binders; 751 books; 1638 cassette tapes; 170 boxes; 9 film reels; 14 microfilms; 838 CDs; 22 DVDs; 17 file cabinets; 1 map case; and several linear feet of loose materials. Artifacts used in the Farm Life Museum and in storage total an estimated 1900 items.

Photos of the archives.
Emory & Henry College Archives website

The College Archives comprises the history of the institution of Emory & Henry through the President's papers, Academic Affairs Office records, student records, organization papers, yearbooks, catalogs, bulletins, transcripts, meeting minutes, and the papers of alumni, professors, and presidents. A total of 472 boxes, twelve file cabinets, one map case, 115 tapes, records, and microfilms, 62 books, and 20 items of memorabilia, in addition to several feet of loose materials stored openly on the shelves, comprise the amassed collection of information in the archives related to Emory & Henry College and its beginnings.

The Old Textbook Collection is stored in a locked 3-shelf cabinet and contains seventy books ranging dates from the 1830s to the early 1900s. There is also two bookcases of 189 old hymnal books, all Methodist-related. The Bishop J. Earl Hunt Special Collection and Room is dedicated to a man who has meant a great deal to the College, the United Methodist Church, and to American Christianity. He grew up in Johnston City, Tennessee, attended East Tennessee State College (now East Tennessee State University) in 1937. Later he entered the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, where he received a Bachelor of Divinity degree. After entering the Holston Conference he ministered at churches in Kingsport, Chattanooga, and Morristown, and for the rest of his life contributed to Methodist theology and Christian service. In the winter of 2000, Bishop Hunt donated his personal library of nearly 2400 books to Emory & Henry College. It is a collection rich in homiletics, pastoral counseling, theology, Methodist history, and biography. Books meant a great deal to him, and it was his wish that future generations might be able to use the collection by keeping it at Emory & Henry.

The Methodist Episcopal Church created the Holston Conference in 1824. The territory comprising Holston had been a part of the Western Annual Conference. Until 1890 the Holston Conference included a large part of western North Carolina. Today the Holston Conference comprises the geographic area surrounding the Holston River, and includes southwest Virginia, eastern Tennessee as far west as Oak Ridge, and a small portion of northern Georgia near Chattanooga. When Bishop Earl Hunt was president of Emory & Henry College (1956-1964), the Holston Conference moved its archives to the College.

The Holston Conference Collection includes biographical information on many of the ministers who served in the region, individual church histories, and district superintendent records, as well as a few personal papers of some of the ministers who served the Conference. The collection dates from the 1820s, with the bulk of the holdings dating from the late 1800s to the present. It includes a large number of books, records, annuals, and general papers dealing with the Holston Conference, totaling 1275 books, 186 boxes, four file cabinets, a storage cabinet, and eight framed paintings. Most of the collection remains unprocessed, though some collections have been processed with corresponding finding aids: (1) Ministerial Records, (2) Jackie Hickman Pectol Collection, (3) Oak Ridge District Superintendent Collection, and (4) Holston Conference Closed Churches File.

A small safe houses a 1912 letter request for Emory & Henry College catalog, several ledgers, a land grant document signed by Patrick Henry, student individual rating reports (grade sheets), two photographs of Martha Washington College students, a large Margaret Fugate personal scrapbook (student of Martha Washington College), and a Martha Washington College 1912-1921 gradebook.

The Navy V-12 Unit Collection is a small collection dedicated to the Navy V-12 Unit consisting of trophies, medals, certificates of award, a flag, and the nursing and Navy V-12 transcripts. The Martha Washington College Collection contains early records and history of the college which once resided in Abingdon, Virginia. These records are stored in seventeen boxes, with an additional nineteen books, college records on 25 rolls of microfilm, and a variety of college-related memorabilia. The small collection for Stonewall Jackson College includes two early college catalogs when it resided in Abingdon, Virginia.

These paintings, photographs, and memorabilia are stored in various locations in the library's archival rooms, but they include a variety of important individuals such as Patrick Henry and John Emory, portraits painted by David Silvette. A total number of 90 paintings, framed photographs, certificates, and other memorabilia represent the physical history of college life. Photographs and slides are stored in 44 boxes in addition to a number of other items stored in a large file cabinet.

The Charles Sydnor Collection consists of Sydnor's personal papers, college-related documents and research, framed paintings and photographs, and an Emory & Henry College Honorary Degree of Humane Letters, 2007, presented to Charles Wright Sydnor, Jr. These are stored in six boxes, two file cabinets, and memorabilia totals 25 items. Charles Sydnor was a former president of Emory and Henry College and a 1965 graduate. The Helen Power Room Rare Books Collection consists of over 5000 books. Around one hundred boxes remain unidentified or unprocessed. These papers may be related to the Holston Conference, Emory & Henry College, earlier college histories, alumni, or the local community and region.

Photos of the archives collections at Davis & Elkins.
Library website
Augusta Heritage Center website
The Davis & Elkins College Special Collections is located in the Scholar's Room on the third floor where material related to the history of the college, the town of Elkins, and the surrounding area is kept. The material includes papers and photographs of the families that once lived on the land that is now Davis & Elkins College, yearbooks, newspapers, and catalogs, some dating to the college's beginning, books that are relevant to the history of West Virginia, and books that are valuable because they are irreplaceable.

The Lincoln Collection consists of items of or about Abraham Lincoln collected by the college and by other individuals. Materials are stored in 42 boxes and include more than 85 Lincoln-related artifacts and 375 books. The College Collection consists of a variety of texts, from bound copies of the West Virginia Hillbilly newspaper to nineteen binders of local and regional climatological data. This also includes three small book collections: Maggi Rhudy Gift Collection of German-Language books, Howard Bertenthal Gift Collection of American books, and the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church books, 1879-1969, totaling 400 books.

The Special Collections and Archives in the Jim Comstock Room consists of a variety of collections and materials ranging from college-related books and documents to an individual's or organization's collections, paintings, literary magazines, and artifacts. Books on college and local history total 1550, while other books such as ledgers, yearbooks, and bound newspapers total 478. A total of 163 artifacts which include Native American wooden sculptures, framed paintings and prints, East Indian printing blocks, miniature dancing statues, among other items. Various documents and manuscripts are stored in 55 boxes, some of which include college literary magazines, campus planning materials, VHS tapes, and Davis family photographs. Around 80 feet measure loose materials stored loosely on the shelves.

The WDNE Radio Station Records Collection is an LP record collection which came from the radio station WDNE and includes a diverse range of music genres: country music, easy-listening, Disney, popular, Motown, etc. There are 146 boxes containing records. The Jim Comstock Collection is largely a multi-leveled personal book and research collection totally 6685 books. A diverse range of subjects include, but not limited to, literature, history, government, geography, social issues, agriculture, music, art, transportation, architecture, and bound periodicals. There's a small group of Comstock's own published books. There are around 205 boxes of multiple copies of Jim Comstock's books. There's around 150 LPs in the collection, in addition to a small number of artifacts like a caricature bust of Pearl Buck. Ten file cabinet drawers house a large photograph collection created and maintained by Comstock for the West Virginia Hillbilly and person purposes. Another 45 linear feet measure loose materials stored openly on the shelves without identification.

The Augusta Collection of Folk Culture includes a vast array of sound recordings of Appalachian and West Virginian musicians performing live at festivals and concerts, namely the Augusta Heritage Center Old-Time Fiddlers' Reunion and the Annual Augusta Festival. Recording media is as diverse as the collections, from audio cassette, reel-to-reel tapes, DV-Cam, DAT tapes, and video recordings on VHS or BETA tapes. Many are stored in the 172 boxes on the shelves or organized clearly on the shelf in chronological order. A collection of LPs number 600 in addition to a fiddle, fiddle case, and two hard drives of Festival 2006 recordings for storage.

The Alumni Room is one room where some processing of photographs, newspaper clippings, and albums are being processed as alumni donate them to the college. There are about 20 VHS tapes, 39 newspaper clippings and photo albums, 95 binders storing photos, negatives, and slides, and around 75 framed photos on display in the nearby rooms. The Ink Well Collection appears to be a quite unique one donated to Davis & Elkins Collection by Phillips V. Brooks. The collection consists of 91 varying kinds of ink wells, including porcelain, glass, silver, and other types. They are on display in two cases in a large conference room in a campus building.

The Darby Collection consists of over 4650 artifacts of an extremely diverse nature, some of which have little to do with the Appalachian region while others are great examples of early Appalachian and American culture. These artifacts come from around the world, such as Mexico, Russia, China, Japan, Korea, and places in Europe. Other items are of early American culture and history, especially Native-American.