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Community Scholars Program - Hart County, Kentucky (Fa 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Community Scholars Program - Hart County, Kentucky (Fa 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding Aid only for Folkife Archives Project 733. This collection contains information and documentation about the Community Scholars Program’s workshops held in Hart County, Kentucky during the summer of 2010. The collection features projects by all participants with special focus on the Mammoth Cave project by Del Maria Vaccaro and interviews conducted by Mary Margaret Villines related to Kentucky artist Joseph Dudley "Joe" Downing.
Basketmaking In The Mammoth Cave Area (Fa 695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Basketmaking In The Mammoth Cave Area (Fa 695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 695. This collection features information collected for an exhibit about basketmaking in the Mammoth Cave region of Kentucky. The exhibit on panels was displayed at various Kentucky venues.
Parsley, Rachel, B. 1991 (Fa 593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Parsley, Rachel, B. 1991 (Fa 593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper and two transcripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project FA 593. Paper titled “Folk Medicine in the Mammoth Cave Area” written by Rachel Parsley for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Parsley details folk remedies and folk medicine of the communities in the Mammoth Cave Region of south central Kentucky. Parsley’s research centers around interviews with her father, Andrew G. Parsley, Jr., and an Edmonson County resident, Bertha Skaggs, a well-known local practitioner of folk remedies. In addition to her interviews, Parsley relies on information collected by a …
Ross, Michelle Ann (Lowe) & Mark Brown, B. 1976 (Fa 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ross, Michelle Ann (Lowe) & Mark Brown, B. 1976 (Fa 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 356. Oral history interview conducted on 6 March 2001 by Michelle Ross and Mark Brown with Distinguished Professor Christopher Groves. Groves, a geography professor at WKU specializing in the study of hydrogeology, discusses his work as director of the Hoffman Environmental Research Institute, his geological efforts to map the flow paths of underground rivers, and other cave-science related endeavors.
Medley, Joy (Fa 339), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Medley, Joy (Fa 339), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 339. Paper: "The Power of the Press: Elements of Folklore Surrounding 'The Death of Floyd Collins'," written by Medley for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Estes, Buck "Red" (Fa 323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Estes, Buck "Red" (Fa 323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 323. Cassette tape from a partially-damaged reel-to-reel tape (T-7-62-113) of Estes performing two folk songs and a "whooping" at Mammoth Cave, 4 July 1962. Also, a transcription of the material on the cassette and the New World Records compact disc 'I'm On My Journey Home: Vocal Styles and Resources in Folk Music" which contains Estes's performance.
Interview With James Ashby Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With James Ashby Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcripton of an oral interview done with James Ashby, b. 1915, as part of a project entitled "A History of the Civilian Conservation Corps at Mammoth Cave National Park" (FA 81). Ashby discusses his experiences as a CCC worker first in Trigg County, Kentucky and then at Mammoth Cave, where he was a cook. He mentions recreational and social activities at the camp. He also discusses his experiences growing up in Drakesboro, Kentucky and Cave City, Kentucky. There are two transcripts for this interview; the second shorter transcript is attached as supplementary material.
Basket Making In The Mammoth Cave Area (Fa 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Basket Making In The Mammoth Cave Area (Fa 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 98. Project entitled "Basket Making in the Mammoth Cave Area." Interviews with basket makers concerning the history, process, marketing and distribution, social attitudes, historical patterns and aesthetics of basket making. Only transcriptions of the interviews were donated. Interviews were conducted by WKU students in Lynwood Montell's Folk Art and Technology class, Fall 1977; also includes one 1974 interview.