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Ohio River Survey (Fa 656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ohio River Survey (Fa 656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 656. Kentucky Folklife Program project titled: “Ohio River Survey,” which includes interviews, tape logs, photographs and other documentation of folklife along the Ohio River in Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky. Interviews may include a description of belief, traditional occupation, practice, craft, or tool, informant’s name, age, birth date, and address.
Powell, Steve (Fa 1195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Powell, Steve (Fa 1195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1195. Student paper titled “Quilting for Frugality” in which Steve Powell interviews close family members and friends about their experiences with quilt making. Powell offers a brief biographical background on each informant along with individual motivations and inspirations for crafting quilts. The paper includes color photographs of various types of quilting patterns and one sample of a quilting square.
Morris, Brenda (Fa 1166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morris, Brenda (Fa 1166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1166. Student paper titled “Quilting” in which Brenda Morris explains the process of piecing together a quilt. Morris, who worked directly with long-time quilter Oma Grant, includes step-by-step instructions along with photographs at various stages throughout the course of crafting. Also included are design patterns and completed samples of handiwork.
Cutliff, Maxine (Fa 1160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cutliff, Maxine (Fa 1160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1160. Student folk studies project titled “Folklore Project: [Cotton Growing and Ginning]” which includes an interview with the description of the cotton growing, ginning, and uses in Green County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a photograph, brief description, and informant’s name.
Nicks, Sarah Elizabeth (Fa 1132), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Nicks, Sarah Elizabeth (Fa 1132), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1132. Student paper titled “Quilting: Past and Present” in which Sarah Nicks details the components of traditional quilt making. Nicks discusses piecing together patterns and the various motivations behind quilting. Information was collected by Nicks from family and friends. The collection contains color photographs of handmade quilts, a questionnaire related to quilting practices, and a sample piece of a quilt patch.
Cederquist, Nancy (Fa 378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cederquist, Nancy (Fa 378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
FFinding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 378. Multiple interviews with Mrs. James Hall conducted by Nancy Cederquist on 22 February 1985, 1 April 1985, and 22 April 1985. Hall, a resident of Bowling Green, discusses her passion for quilting, her preferred patterns, fabric care, and her experiences with a local quilting group.
Christensen, Barbara Ellen (Fa 1082), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Christensen, Barbara Ellen (Fa 1082), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1082. Student folk studies project titled: “Quilting,” which includes survey sheets, interviews and descriptions of quilting practices and beliefs in Hardin County, Kentucky. Sheets may include an informant’s name and address, a superstition and a motif index number or a photo, description, and name of the quilt.
Stinnett, Glee (Fa 1073), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stinnett, Glee (Fa 1073), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project FA 1073. Paper titled “Quilting” by Glee Stinnett based on interviews with three Kentucky quilters. They answer basic questions about quilting, quilt patterns they have made, and how they learned to quilt. The project includes over thirty photos of quilts made by these three women, some fabric quilt squares, and a drawing of a quilt frame.
Hager, Anne Rogers (Fa 1025), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hager, Anne Rogers (Fa 1025), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1025. Folk studies student project titled: “The Art of Quilting,” which includes interviews and survey sheets about quilting in Edmonson County and Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets may include brief descriptions of quilts, beliefs, informant’s name, and photos.
Druen, Sibyl Jean And Patricia Gilley (Fa 878), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Druen, Sibyl Jean And Patricia Gilley (Fa 878), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 878. Paper titled: “Quilt Patterns: The Jonesville and Wisdom Communities.” Project includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of quilt patterns, process and terms of quilters in Hart and Metcalfe Counties, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and a photo or drawing of the quilt and/or quilt pattern.
Kentucky Folklife Program - Artists (Fa 743), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Folklife Program - Artists (Fa 743), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 743. This collection contains information relating to the various artists involved with the Kentucky Folklife Program. Many of the artists included in this collection participated in programs offered at, but not limited to, the Kentucky Folklife Festival, Made to be Played Exhibit, apprenticeship programs, and survey or fieldwork that was conducted by the Kentucky Folklife Program. Artists included musicians (gospel, blues, bluegrass, banjo, thumbpicking guitarists, and singing) to traditional artists (painting, quilting, storytelling, basketmaking, and instrument making). The collection also includes musical groups and places relating to artists and art forms. The collection …
Kentucky Folklife Program - Subject Research Files (Fa 747), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Folklife Program - Subject Research Files (Fa 747), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection FA 747. This collection contains materials relating to a wide array of folklife subjects collected by folklorist Bob Gates for the Kentucky Folklife Program. The majority of the subjects include ethnic or cultural groups, but there is also various information relating to specific arts or traditions. The materials within the folders are mostly articles or copies of articles. Most folders contain information that relates directly to Kentucky, but some are about the topic more in general terms. Files are arranged by subject.
Communty Scholars Program - Jefferson County, Kentucky (Fa 735), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Communty Scholars Program - Jefferson County, Kentucky (Fa 735), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding Aid only for Folklife Archives Project 735. This collection contains information and documentation about the Community Scholars Program’s workshops held in Jefferson County, Kentucky during 2012. The collection almost entirely features projects completed by participants of the program.
Allen County, Kentucky Folklife And Oral History Project (Fa 753), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Allen County, Kentucky Folklife And Oral History Project (Fa 753), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 753. Western Kentucky University’s Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology received a grant from the Laura Goad Turner Charitable Foundation in the summer of 2011 to conduct an oral history and folklife survey of Allen County, Kentucky over several years. Using recorded interviews, photography, and videography, graduate and undergraduate students in the department documented a broad range of historical and cultural themes in Allen County. Students complete the fieldwork as part of their coursework in courses including Folklore Fieldwork, Cultural Conservation, Vernacular Architecture, and Field Methods in Ethnography. The resulting archival material consists …
Kentucky Folklife Festival - Frankfort, Kentucky, 2000 (Fa 664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Folklife Festival - Frankfort, Kentucky, 2000 (Fa 664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 664. This collection features information and documentation about the third annual Kentucky Folklife Festival held from September 28-30, 2000 in Frankfort, Kentucky. The festival was sponsored by the Kentucky Folklife Program, an inter-agency program of the Kentucky Historical Society and the Kentucky Arts Council agencies of the Education, Arts and Humanities Cabinet.
Kentucky Folklife Festival - Frankfort, Kentucky, 1997 (Fa 661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Folklife Festival - Frankfort, Kentucky, 1997 (Fa 661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives project 661. This collection features information anf documentation about the first annual Kentucky Folklife Festival held from September 18-21, 1997 in Frankfort, Kentucky. The festival was sponsored by the Kentucky Folklife Program, an inter-agency program of the Kentucky Historical Society and the Kentucky Arts Council agencies of the Education, Arts and Humanities Cabinet.
Highway 31-W Folklife Survey (Fa 660), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Highway 31-W Folklife Survey (Fa 660), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives project 660. This collection includes information and documentation of the Highway 31-W Folklife Survey conducted by folklorist Dale Johnson throughout the summer and fall of 1999. Sponsored by the Kentucky Arts Council, the West Kentucky Corporation, and Mammoth Cave National Park, the survey was undertaken to document folklore and traditions from the U.S. Highway 31-W corridor running from Louisville, Kentucky to the Tennessee state line near Franklin, Kentucky.
Always A River: The Ohio River And The American Experience (Fa 657), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Always A River: The Ohio River And The American Experience (Fa 657), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 657. Collection features documentation on the "Always a River" exhibit sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as the Humanities Councils of the six states whose boundaries touch the Ohio River. The exhibit demonstrated the relationship between the individual and the environment. One exhibit was featured on a barge that traveled from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Cairo, Illinois in 1991.
Kentucky River Exhibit (Fa 655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky River Exhibit (Fa 655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 655. Documentation relating to a traveling exhibit based on interviews and illustrative material from the Kentucky River Folklife Project of 1989. This collection documents the exhibit's creation process from 1989 to 1992. The exhibit was made available initially to town halls and libraries in counties along to Kentucky River, and then traveled across the state through the "Museums to Go" program of the Kentucky Historical Society.
Kentucky River Folklife Project (Fa 654), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky River Folklife Project (Fa 654), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folkllife Archives Project 654. Chiefly interviews, photographs, slides, and tape logs for a summer 1989 project conducted by the Kentucky Folklife Program, in conjunction with other supporting agencies and institutions, about folklife and folklore along the Kentucky River. Project results were presented to the public in two formats: a traveling exhibit and narrative stage presentations.
Promising Neighborhoods Program (Fa 645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Promising Neighborhoods Program (Fa 645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 645. This collection features information and documentation gather for the Promising Neighborhoods Program as part of the Improving Rural Appalachian Communities initiative. The Kentucky counties included in this project were Owsley, Clay, and Jackson.
Knott County, Kentucky - Cultural Resource Survey (Fa 640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Knott County, Kentucky - Cultural Resource Survey (Fa 640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 640. This collection features information and oral histories gathered from traditional artisans of Knott County, Kentucky.
Crittenden County, Kentucky - Cultural Resource Survey (Fa 626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crittenden County, Kentucky - Cultural Resource Survey (Fa 626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 626. This collection features information and oral histories gathered from traditional artisans of Crittenden County, Kentucky.
Greenup County, Kentucky - Cultural Resource Survey (Fa 621), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Greenup County, Kentucky - Cultural Resource Survey (Fa 621), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 621. This collection features information and oral histories gathered from traditional artisans of Greenup County, Kentucky.
Mccreary County, Kentucky - Cultural Resource Survey (Fa 623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mccreary County, Kentucky - Cultural Resource Survey (Fa 623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 623. This collection features information and oral histories gathered from traditional artisans and musicians of McCreary County, Kentucky.
Owen County, Kentucky - Cultural Resource Survey (Fa 620), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Owen County, Kentucky - Cultural Resource Survey (Fa 620), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 620. This collection features information and oral histories gathered from residents of Owen County, Kentucky.
Jackson County, Kentucky - Cultural Resource Survey (Fa 618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson County, Kentucky - Cultural Resource Survey (Fa 618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 618. This collection includes oral histories from Jackson County, Kentucky that were used in preparing a cultural resource report for the county.
Franklin County, Kentucky - Cultural Resource Survey (Fa 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Franklin County, Kentucky - Cultural Resource Survey (Fa 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 617. This collection was created as part of a cultural planning grant from the Kentucky Folklife Program to finish Franklin County, Kentucky’s cultural planning and implementation process.
Artists In Residence - Union County (Fa 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Artists In Residence - Union County (Fa 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 612. Project conducted in Union County, Kentucky to identify and utilize local folk artists in county elementary schools. Folklorist Amy Davis and fieldworker/folk artist Sue Massek interviewed local folk artists and performers. Afterwards they made presentations in schools about the information they collected and invited some of the artists to perform and/or demonstrate.
Thornton, Rachel (Fa 596), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thornton, Rachel (Fa 596), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 596. Paper titled “Quilting” written by Rachel Thornton for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Williams details the quilting methods used by Barren County quilter Marlene “Chris” Woods. Thornton conveys Woods’ passion for hand quilting rather than machine quilting as well as the intimate connection and personal meaning that quilts embody for those who make and use them.