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Highlander Folk School — Part 11

66 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Highlander Folk School · 66 pages OCR'd
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&-6-—3iE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN, Seadsy Morning, July 19,7953 eich) a " = oss , ° * & ‘Pastor Swift; Wi “Lovable Couple | Now Retired - After 60 Years *By GORDON H. TURNER ‘ @tatf Correspondent MONTEAGLE, Tenn.—Much of the Bouth and nation and in fact a lot of the world would not be erect: the seme had it not been fer & apvabie, retlined couple bow ‘ fmeppily Hving in retirement bere. 4 High above the workl's Hs, ; which they have done a lot to "weal, are the Rev. W. Swift, an - alitime famous Methodist preach 7 _@t and his wife, the former Irene * Keiser, Boih were born and reared J * geot far gperl in southweet Ken- “Sucky during the lstter quarter of . nme rT er 5 “Pastor Swift” had written me . > they were “retired,” and that they sad cee AP Ler F evangelizing and holding a dozen ce er # pasioraler in many wiates, * 2 ade a OW pretty home here “40 years ago and settled down, fret trum ouw en, of routine pro foototal duties, ADthvec on Years . Gu Ef.+. fait has altended to § ‘fhe genous Eu.nday seboo! assem- ay opr bere for @ yeara ar (with her busbhand since the early 3 5. - : (aan. With acch an acquaintance, —Btarf ¢ photo by Gordon 3 ‘Tereer to fey , nothing of continuing = -WoNTRAGLE, Tenn—The Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Swift stand in front of thelr pretty home From a large personal lbtary, and just inside the world famous SUEY"Uchoo! assembly grounds bere. Thay have samed BE hour fing in a thousand and one little Inglewood. + ee cata and chorea around here—the .* ~ couple ta yet quite active, . ago and when be served as school At thetr tovitation by letter, 3 3 (janitor to pay Ma way through 6 amernt 2 recent unfevrcttable day|/small college. wits ihia remarkabic couple, “When I was born there were: whor J bad cever before met, and|no electric lighta or paved roads, ‘or who: « doxen stories couidn't|much less automoblies in Een- As hates @p dia me the courtesy|tucky,” be recalled. “But ox- ad complimenting my good- -will| Wagons, spinning wheels, end =a bomemsade eley lamps were oom Meat. = PES ree ESL tot of stropping” cor then ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED (STin cried Martane apf oreat wep soar Es HEREIN 1S UNCLASSIFIED SET Seay DATE gad BY “St ENCLOSURE
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