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Bellis, Oren H. And Jim (Fa 95), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Bellis, Oren H. And Jim (Fa 95), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 95. Project entitled "Ohio River history and times." Videotaped interview with Oren H. and Jim Bellis of Clarksville, Indiana concerning Ohio River history conducted by Lynwood Montell on July 11, 1990.


Basket Making In The Mammoth Cave Area (Fa 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Basket Making In The Mammoth Cave Area (Fa 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.


Tessler, Heather Marie (Fa 164), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Tessler, Heather Marie (Fa 164), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 164. Project entitled "White oak basketry." Interviews with fourteen basketmakers from Kentucky and Tennessee through a project funded by the Kentucky Oral History Commission. Includes information/fieldworker data forms and tape logs.


Carver, Noble, 1896-1978 (Fa 108), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Carver, Noble, 1896-1978 (Fa 108), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 108. Project includes a published life history of Kentucky musician, Noble Carver, as told to Ernie Lawson. The publication is entitled: "52 Years of Uncle Bozo (Noble Carver) of the Original Carver Family." Includes letter from Carver to Lynwood Montell, January 25, 1971.


Grider, Alta (Fa 106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Grider, Alta (Fa 106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 106. Project entitled "Amish/Mennonites in Casey County, Kentucky." Includes interviews, March 11, 1989, with Amish and Mennonites in Casey County, Kentucky, concerning cultural and social beliefs and practices.


Foster, Stephen C., B. 1961 (Fa 103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2007

Foster, Stephen C., B. 1961 (Fa 103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 103. Interview with Stephen Cheek, an herbal doctor. Interview describing Cheek's training and practice as an herbal doctor in Allen County, Kentucky. Includes Katrina A. Riley's analysis of Cheek's curing methods and a list of his remedies.


Folk Songs - Paducah (Fa 133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2007

Folk Songs - Paducah (Fa 133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 133. 45 r.p.m. record, with sleeve, of “Paducah’s Layin’ Round the Bend” and “Ferd Harold Blues,” two traditional songs sung by roustabouts who worked on steamboats on the Ohio and Tennessee rivers. Issued by Century Records, the recording features Bertha W. Wenzel, vocalist, and Bill Small, accompanist.


Eans, Kevin (Fa 119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2007

Eans, Kevin (Fa 119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 119. "The use of mussel shells in decorating graves in Daviess and McLean Counties [Kentucky]. Documents the use of shells to beautify and mark graves.