BLUE RIDGE INSTITUTE
Ferrum College
Ferrum, VA 24088
703-365-4416 Fax: 703-365-4203
The Blue Ridge Institute, "committed to the documentation, preservation, and
presentation of the traditional life and culture of the Blue Ridge Mountains,"
includes the Blue Ridge Heritage Archive and Blue Ridge Institute Records.
3. AUDIO TAPES
ca. 500 hours
Includes music (secular, blues, nonblues secular); oral
history; interviews; and stories from all regions of Virginia, but the main collection is from the Blue Ridge and Southwest Virginia.
4. PHOTOGRAPHS
ca. 1,000, ca. late 1800s-present
Includes many and varied photographs of and about Afro-Americans from
all areas of Virginia.
5. VIDEO
ca. 30 hours
Primarily music (secular, blues, nonblues secular) from
the western Piedmont, the Blue
Ridge, and Southwest Virginia.
