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Pledge card for William Clayton

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  • After a 15 month long trip to Scandinavia to study alternative rural education, Olive Dame Campbell and Marguerite Butler spent about seven months traveling around Appalachia in search of the perfect location for a school based on the theory of the Danish folk schools. It was imperative to them that the community realize and accept the non-traditional aspects of the proposed school. Mrs. Campbell and Ms. Butler did not want to impose ideas on the community, but rather to cooperate with the people to achieve the goal of uplifting the rural community. Fred O. Scroggs, the local storekeeper, heard rumors about the idea of the school and approached the women to implore them to consider Brasstown. As a means of supporting the idea of locating the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, members of near-by communities pledged labor, building materials, time, and money. These community-initiated donations were recorded on uniform pledge cards and collected and signed by Fred O. Scroggs.
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Object’s are ‘parent’ level descriptions to ‘children’ items, (e.g. a book with pages).

  • As a means of supporting the idea of locating the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, members of near-by communities pledged labor, building materials, time, and money. These community-initiated donations were recorded on uniform pledge cards in 1925 which identify the school as "the Danish Folk School, being located somewhere near the mouth of Little Brasstown Creek." Local storekeeper Fred O. Scroggs collected and witnessed the pledges. The concept of a folk school was introduced to the Brasstown community by Olive Dame Campbell and Marguerite Butler, who spent over a year in Scandinavia studying alternative rural education and several months in search of a receptive Appalachian community. It was important to Campbell and Butler that their ideas were not imposed on the community, but rather that they cooperated with the people to achieve the goal of uplifting the rural community. These pledges represent the community's investment in the school.