The first Long Trip in 1935 took students to Morgantown, West Virginia and Washington, D. C. Stops included the mining area of Scotts Run, W.V. and the resettlement community of Arthurdale. The focus for these first trips led by Lucy Sprague Mitchell and Eleanor Hogan between 1935 and 1941 was labor and unionization, governments efforts on behalf of the people, and the use and abuse of natural resources.
Visit the 1935 image gallery to see pictures from the trip.
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Extending the Environment: Before the Trip and After; The Trip; Eight Days
Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Elizabeth Whitney Walther, and Elsa Euland
Volume 1, Number 8, May 1935
Detailed description of Bank Street's "Long Trip" to Morgantown, West Virginia and Washington, D. C. in 1935.
"The trip to West Virginia and Washington in which is described in this issue of 69 Bank Street, first by a student teacher and then by a staff member, was part of our year's work with the student teachers on "environment" - part of an attempt to get in first-hand contact with some of the major work patterns and their accompanying psychological patterns which characterize our current American culture" -- Lucy Sprague Mitchell