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Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2022 (Fa 1410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1410. Audio, photographs, and video documenting the Horse Cave Heritage Festival, an annual September event in Horse Cave, Kentucky celebrating local heritage with craft artisans, antique vehicles, children’s activities, food, music, and other attractions. Includes interviews and a narrative stage hosted by the Kentucky Folklife Program.

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2019 (Fa 1408), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1408. Audio, photographs, and video documenting the Horse Cave Heritage Festival, an annual September event in Horse Cave, Kentucky celebrating local heritage with craft artisans, antique vehicles, children’s activities, food, music, and other attractions. Includes interviews and a narrative stage hosted by the Kentucky Folklife Program.

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2018 (Fa 1407), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1407. Audio, photographs, and video documenting the Horse Cave Heritage Festival, an annual September event in Horse Cave, Kentucky celebrating local heritage with craft artisans, antique vehicles, children’s activities, food, music, and other attractions. Includes interviews and a narrative stage hosted by the Kentucky Folklife Program.

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2016 (Fa 1405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1405. Audio, photographs, and video documenting the Horse Cave Heritage Festival, an annual September event in Horse Cave, Kentucky celebrating local heritage with craft artisans, antique vehicles, children’s activities, food, music, and other attractions. Includes interviews and a narrative stage hosted by the Kentucky Folklife Program.

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2014 (Fa 1404), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1404. Audio, photographs, and video documenting the Horse Cave Heritage Festival, an annual September event in Horse Cave, Kentucky celebrating local heritage with craft artisans, antique vehicles, children’s activities, food, music, and other attractions. Includes interviews and a narrative stage hosted by the Kentucky Folklife Program.

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2015 (Fa 1401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1401. Audio, photographs, and narrative stage logs documenting the Horse Cave Heritage Festival, an annual September event in Horse Cave, Kentucky celebrating local heritage with craft artisans, antique vehicles, children’s activities, food, music, and other attractions. Includes interviews and a narrative stage hosted by the Kentucky Folklife Program.

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2013 (Fa 1400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1400. Audio, photographs, and narrative stage logs documenting the Horse Cave Heritage Festival, an annual September event in Horse Cave, Kentucky celebrating local heritage with craft artisans, antique vehicles, children’s activities, food, music, and other attractions. Includes interviews and a narrative stage hosted by the Kentucky Folklife Program.

Mitchell, Emma Marie, B. 1997 (Fa 1385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1385. “Coffee and Community: Examining Coffee as Folklore in Bowling Green, Kentucky,” an honors project by Emma Mitchell for a WKU folk studies class.

Wilgus, Donald Knight (Fa 1203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1203. Student folk studies projects collected by Professor Donald Knight “D. K.” Wilgus while teaching folk studies classes at Western Kentucky University. Most of the items collected are from south central Kentucky, but also includes items from Indiana, Ohio and Tennessee.

Hart County Foodways (Fa 1291), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1291. Collection of projects conducted by students for Dr. Ann Ferrell's 2018 fieldwork class. Projects address traditional and contemporary foodways practices throughout Hart County, Kentucky.

Anderson, Kenneth (Fa 1283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1283. Student folk studies project titled “The Art of Curing Hams,” which includes the history and process of curing hams in Kentucky. The paper includes descriptions of the three different processes of curing hams and ends with a comparison of the three.

Bastin, Glen (Fa 1241), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1241. Collection of 38 cassette tapes featuring Glen Bastin's regional public affairs syndicated radio program, "Pondering Kentucky: The Magazine." A contents list was prepared and appears at the end of this finding aid.

Larson, Mike (Fa 1231), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1231. Student paper titled “History of Woodburn, Kentucky” in which Mike Larson details the founding, growth, and eventual decline of the small town in Warren County. Larson gathered together information from interviews, correspondence, business directories, and manuscripts about a range of topics including, but not limited to, education, crime rates, athletics, healthcare, influential families, and sources of entertainment.

Roberts, Lynne Allene (Fa 1226), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1226. Student paper coupled with a photographic essay titled “A Day in the Life of J. Allen and Irma Moats” in which Lynne Roberts details the daily routine of her maternal grandparents. The author outlines their diet, sources of income, domestic duties, and use of modern technology. Accompanying the paper is a set of 19 black and white photographs of J. Allen and Irma, their home, crafts, and additional cherished keepsakes.

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.

Intro To Folk Studies Oral History Project (Fa 1206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1206. Collection consists of interviews conducted by students in Barry Kaufkins’ Introduction to Folk Studies (FLK 276) class at WKU. Students conducted interviews with various family members, friends, and coworkers. Topics include childhood memories, cultural traditions, professional responsibilities, and other issues relating to personal narratives. Collection also contains brief summaries of subjects covered in the interviews. Audio recordings of the interviews that were recorded and submitted are stored in the WKU Sound Archives.

Foodways (Fa 1202), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1202. Collection of papers written by students in Professor Barry Kaufkins’ Foodways class (FLK/ANTH 388) at Western Kentucky University. While a majority of the papers focus on Easter traditions, other topics of note include immigrant foodways traditions, fundraising efforts, community organizations, tailgating, and sorority life. Papers also include photographs taken by students.

Valentine, Joan (Fa 1182), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1182. Student paper titled “How to Make Apple Cider” in which Joan Valentine details the cider-making process by way of harvesting, pressing, fermentation, and distribution. Valentine gathered her information from Dawson Lanter, afarmer from Williamstown, Grant County, Kentucky.

Norris, Walter (Fa 1173), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1173. Student paper titled “Food Preservation: Curing CountryHam – Kentucky Style” in which Walter Norris describes the aging process, preparation, and preservation of cured country ham. Norris’ informants, specifically his parents and grandparents, detail their cooking methods, recipes, and familial traditions, while the owners of several commercial operators and distributors discuss their chemically simulated processes.

Smith, Jerry W. (Fa 1162), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1162. Student folk studies project titled “Home Remedies of Butler County” which includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of folk remedies in Butler County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a remedy, brief description, informant’s name,

address and text classification.

Marcum, Joe (Fa 1161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1161. Student folk studies project titled “Folklore Collection Project: [Old Recipes and Remedies]” which includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of recipes or remedies in Logan County and Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a recipe, remedy, brief description, informant’s name, address and text classification.

Thomas, Norman (Fa 1129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1129. Paper titled “Traditional Recipes” in which Norman Thomas details how to prepare various dishes ranging from opossum and porcupine to maple syrup and molasses taffy. Paper is based on information collected by Thomas from close relatives and family friends.

Dailey, Jan (Fa 1103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1103. Paper titled “Food Storage for Winter Consumption” in which Jan Dailey offers an in-depth exploration into the realm of traditional food preservation and storage practices, such as drying, peeling, dipping, husking, and “hilling up,” that have persisted in spite of modern mechanized methods. Paper is based on information gathered by Dailey from farmers and homemakers across McCracken and Metcalfe County.

Stewart, Karen (Fa 1085), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1085. Student folk studies project titled: “Making Apple Cider in Western Kentucky,” which includes a description of apple cider making practices in Butler County, Kentucky. Survey sheets may include photos of a tool, processes, and descriptions.

Childress, Lelia (Fa 1075), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1075. Student folk studies project titled: “Traditional Methods of Preserving Food,” which includes survey sheets with food preservation methods and traditions in Hart County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a food, brief description of process, informant’s name and address, and text classification.

Jaggers, Katie (Fa 1066), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1066. Paper titled “Folk Beliefs” in which Katie Jaggers details various proverbs, remedies, superstitions, and predictions relating to childhood, agriculture, medicine, and other facets of daily life. Paper is based on data collected by Jaggers from immediate family in Edmonson County, Kentucky.

Blue, Jewell Kay (Fa 1042), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1042. Paper titled "Butter-Making" in which Jewell Blue discusses the history and practice of home-churning butter. Paper I based on information collected by Blue from close relatives and contains photographs of her grandmother's farm and heirloom churn.

Milligan, Gary (Fa 1033), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1033. Student folk studies project titled: “Hunting: Traditional Methods and Weapons,” which includes survey sheets about hunting and preparing game in Arkansas, Will County, Illinois and Russell County, Kentucky. Sheets may include information about the hunting process, cleaning process, dressing, belief, story, motif index number, and illustration.

Cornett, Doris Ellen, B. 1952 (Fa 1031), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1031. Student folk studies project titled: “Folk Remedies and ‘Home Cures,’” which includes description of folk medicine and practices in Harrison, Kenton, Meade, Pulaski, and Warren Counties of Kentucky. Sheets may include information about a folk remedy, belief, informant’s name and motif index number.

Smallwood, Ruth (Fa 1030), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1030. Student folk studies project titled: “Hog Butchering in Allen County,” which includes a description of the hog butchering process in Allen County, Kentucky. Sheets may include information about process step, photo, joke and belief.