Nearly identical to the first 1935 Long Trip, the Long Trip in 1936 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 trip was led by Lucy Sprague Mitchell and Eleanor Hogan.
Visit the 1936 image gallery to see pictures from the trip.
Dr. Salvatore Vascellaro's dissertation includes an interview with Sally Kerlin who went on the 1936 trip. He writes:
"When remembering the 'sewage running in the streets, the coal all over the place,' Sally Kerlin (1936 I) relived the anger and indignation she experienced sixty years earlier: 'It was a terrific social indictment to go there because you could see how...people had to live.' When Kerlin witnessed at Arthurdale the possibility for changing such conditions, she was stunned. It was when she saw 'the beautiful musical instruments the children made' in the nursery school that she realized the power of a New Deal program; of schooling; and just how resilient children can be" (p. 161).