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A College For Appalachia: Alice Lloyd on Caney Creek

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Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd used to be a New England woman with a mission in life. In 1916 she settled on Caney Creek in Eastern Kentucky, made up our minds to bring higher education to this remote corner of Appalachia. The school she founded, now Alice Lloyd College, continues to serve the area and its people and to face as a tribute to Lloyd’s remarkable energy, determination, and vision.

Lloyd’s program combined a rigorous academic curriculum with an intense effort to instill a sense of service within the school’s graduates. This education used to be provided free and required only that the students abide by Lloyd’s strict rules of conduct and pledge to stay within the mountains after graduating.

In the first full-scale study of Lloyd’s life and work and the institution she founded, David Searles shows how this courageous and complex woman struggled all over her long life against seemingly insurmountable odds to create an institution dedicated to bettering life in Appalachia. But, as he acknowledges, Lloyd’s fundraising activities relied on harmful stereotypes that caused resentment among her mountain neighbors, and she regularly angered others working within the mountains.

Despite the negative aspects of Lloyd’s activities, Searles casts serious doubt at the now fashionable conclusion that the ladies who came to the mountains to do good created more problems than they solved. Lloyd’s story, he argues, demonstrates that much good used to be indeed accomplished and that the people of the mountains recognized and appreciated her achievement.

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