VintagePOLLY PAGE 4 WOOD DOLLS AUNT JENNY AND UNCLE PINKY, ROBIN & MARK EUC!

Woodcarver/doll maker, Pleasant Hill Tennessee Folklife Heritage Award (2013) In her long career as a woodcarver, Polly Page (1918- ) has preserved the legacy of Cumberland County’s Pleasant Hill Academy, one of Tennessee’s most notable Appalachian settlement schools. Part of a wider education and social reform movement in isolated areas of the southern mountains, the school also had programs encouraging student involvement in traditional arts and crafts. Polly enrolled there in 1929 and soon became the star pupil of carving teacher Margaret Campbell, mastering many human and animal figures. She developed her own signature character dolls, “Hitty” and “Aunt Jenny and Uncle Pink,” based on people in the community. When the academy closed in the 1940s