Donations of clothes at Lutheran Mission Churches in Appalachian Mountain, United States, coordinated by Pastor Kenneth Killinger from Marion, Virginia, in Smyth County. Children come to Mission churches to learn about the bible during summer bible camps. Group of children ascending the steps of a church. Sign board of 'The Friendly Church' outside the church building. Children inside the church, with a boy and a girl holding the American flag in hand. Teachers and children gathered raise hands and appear to say Pledge of Allegiance. Teachers and volunteers give food to children participating in the summer bible camp. Boy writes slogans on wooden slates that say, "Camp Meeting." Children play in a garden, gathered in a circle holding hands. Parents, staff, and teachers work with the children on arts and crafts with supplies all have donated. A large gathering of the congregation of the mission churches beside a church or school house, and then under an adjacent large white tent. Pastor Kenneth Killinger speaking to those gathered under the tent. Group of women speaking in the tent, then outside in a ring of chairs. Woman instructor speaking to a group of children.
Man arrives at the offices of Cumberland Homesteads, a New Deal Community being built by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads. He speaks to another man in front of the Information Office. Sign "Cumberland Homesteads Information" visible. He walks down a dirt road and arrives at another office. Sign out front says, "Office. William Macy Stanton, Architecture - Land Planning and Construction. D. F. Folger, Personnel and Purchasing." he enters the office and is seen seated at a table with another man (likely Stanton or Folger), filling out forms to apply for one of the homesteads. He exits the office together with the other man.
Summer work camps in Flint, Michigan organized by the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers). College student volunteers clean in Oak Knoll Park. Two men dig around a tree and uproot it. Man chopping a tree with an axe. Two men reaping tall grass with a scythe. Men uproot and dig out stumps, and carry cut trees and branches to a pile. Black smoke rises from a heap of burning brush. Children play in the park, coordinated by American Friends Service Committee members in Community Planning and City Planning roles. Families with boys and girls attend United Auto Workers (UAW) picnic.
Trip of American Friends Service Committee members (Quakers) to the Saline Valley Farms outside Saline, Michigan, founded by Harold Gray. Sign in parking lot of the cooperative (co-op) farm reads, "Saline Valley Farms. Office. Hostel. Store. Dairy. Recreation Hall. Canning Factory. All visitors please register." View of the main farm house. Panoramic view of the farmland from a high bluff. A boy riding a pony or small horse. View of chickens pecking at feed outside chicken coops. Friends gathered for a picnic near a large shade tree. View of the table preparations and people enjoying the picnic. Man pushes a boy on a tree swing. Man seated on the swing eating watermelon. Men playing horseshoes. View of William Simkin, Director, along with two small children beside him.
Camping weekend of members of the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers). Man climbs out of canoe bow at a dock on Fenton Lake. Man at stern of canoe remains. A different man climbs back into the bow of the canoe. View of a man throwing large darts at a dart board in a campsite.
Photographers take pictures, as Bishop Cannon, of the Southern Methodist Church, emerges from courthouse. Cannon, founder of the Virginia Anti-Smith Campaign, was on trial along with campaign treasurer Ada L. Burroughs, accused of mishandling Presidential campaign funds in 1928. Bishop Cannon walks slowly down steps using a cane and makes his way to a coupe automobile awaiting him at the curb.
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