The 1948-1951 post-WW2 Long Trips to Tennessee were led by Eleanor Hogan, assisted by Sheila Salder (1950-1951). Participants visited the Highlander Folk School, African American Farming Community of Bakewell, Tennessee Valley Authority, and Ducktown. Along the way they stopped at the Amish market at Lancaster, Gettysberg, and Harpers Ferry. They focused on civil rights, labor/unionization, government efforts on behalf of the people, and the use and abuse of natural resources.
Visit the 1936 image gallery to see pictures from the trip.
Bank Street's Archives include transcripts of interviews of 1950 Long Trip participants. Alma Weisberg shared in an interview, "My advisor, Claudia Lewis, started the nursery there [Highlander Folk School], so I was particularly interested. And I remember the teacher, Joey Creighton, talked about them having the kids to watch a hog killing. And all of us had concern about this but she felt that was part of life there." Weisberg later remarks on how the trip influenced her teaching: "Because of the quality of having an experience myself and I think the ability to shuttle between my experience and a concept of curriculum and translate that for children was very important. And it wasn't just my work with children. When I was training teachers, I very much valued giving people their own personal first hand experience."
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Excerpts from Long Trip of 1950 Interview Transcripts, 1988 - 1990
Ellen R. Hausknecht
Excerpted pages from interviews conducted by Ellen R. Hausknecht between 1988 and 1990 of participants on the 1950 Bank Street Long Trip. Full interview transcripts are available in the Bank Street Archives: bsc.05.04.B.015 Box 7.
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Itinerary from 1950 Long Trip
Bank Street College of Education
From p. 215-217 of Salvatore Vascellaro. (2011). Out of the Classroom and Into the World : Learning From Field Trips, Educating From Experience, and Unlocking the Potential of Our Students and Teachers. The New Press.