Box 291

Scope and Contents Kemp chaired the committee overseeing Billy Joe Peyton’s dissertation. Later, Kemp also nominated Peyton for the West Virginia Humanities Council. The box includes materials related to the nomination and Peyton’s dissertation, entitled “To Make the Crooked Ways Straight, and the Rough Ways Smooth: Laying Out and Building the Cumberland Road.” The box includes drafts of the dissertation chapters, correspondence, catalogues of dissertations, brochures, handwritten notes, and a floppy disk. The...