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Foodways (Fa 1202), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Foodways (Fa 1202), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
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.
Kibbee, Amos Watson, 1828-1915 (Sc 3230), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kibbee, Amos Watson, 1828-1915 (Sc 3230), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3230. Letter, 26 January 1862, of Amos Watson Kibbee to his cousin, Hattie Tuttle, of Painesville, Ohio. From Camp Barker in Cairo, Illinois, he writes about camp life and rumors of possible cavalry soldiers being discharged and his experiences of late-night scouting duties. He also describes being in an advance guard with other soldiers, taking the town of Blandville, Kentucky, and arresting suspicious civilians. He writes about guarding a prisoner of war, and his change of religious views. Includes an Illinois Union envelope.
Shucraft Family Letters (Sc 3224), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shucraft Family Letters (Sc 3224), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and transcripts of letters (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3211. Letters of the Shucraft family of Nashville (Davidson County) and Blount County, Tennessee, mostly between brothers John, Van and Charley Shucraft. Family members discuss marriages and deaths, work and hard economic times, commodity prices, and religious revivals. A worker in a Blount County distillery, Charley regularly sends whiskey to brother John and arranges sales of John’s lumber.
Upchurch, Cindy (Fa 1177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Upchurch, Cindy (Fa 1177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1177. Student folk studies project titled “Early Funeral Directors” which includes interviews with survey sheets about the history of early funeral practices in Anderson, Madison County, Indiana and Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of a funeral practice, a photograph, text classification, and informant’s name, age and address.
Wright, Curtis William (Fa 1159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wright, Curtis William (Fa 1159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1159. Student folk studies project titled “Amish” which includes survey sheets with a brief description of Amish life in Howard County, Indiana. Sheets may include an interview, brief description, informant’s name, and address. The project also includes “A Story of Isaac S. Miller” by O. G. M.
Morgan, Nyla Margaret (Hammers) Moore, 1918-2017 (Mss 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morgan, Nyla Margaret (Hammers) Moore, 1918-2017 (Mss 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 639. Information collected by Morgan about Butler County, Kentucky history and historical organizations. Genealogical records related to Morgan, Moore, and Johnson families (particularly the children of Christopher Columbus “Lum” Johnson, 1847-1921), as well as allied families. Includes two boxes of material related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia, particularly its women’s Relief Society.
Warren, Kaye (Fa 1150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren, Kaye (Fa 1150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1150. Student folk studies project titled “From Slavery to Freedom for the Negro Race in Logan County [Kentucky]” which includes survey sheets with a brief description of African American life in Logan County, Kentucky. Sheets may include interviews, written records, photographs, informant’s name, age, and address.
Old Union Church Of Christ - Sumner County, Tennessee (Sc 3216), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Old Union Church Of Christ - Sumner County, Tennessee (Sc 3216), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3216. Minute book of Old Union Church of Christ, Sumner County, Tennessee, also known as the Congregation Electa Cyrea. Includes an introductory narrative on the formation of the church, meeting minutes, members lists (white and African American), and lists of contributions and expenditures.
C.D.G. Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
C.D.G. Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3214. Minutes of the C.D.G. (Children Desiring God) Club, Bowling Green, Kentucky, composed of women members of the First Baptist Church. Includes meeting minutes, members lists, and financial data.
Pond, Noah Sherman, 1815-1892 (Sc 3203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pond, Noah Sherman, 1815-1892 (Sc 3203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text of letters (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3203. Four letters, 1836-1837, of Noah S. Pond to his sister and brother-in-law in Washington, Connecticut. Writing from New Design, Trigg County, Kentucky, where he is working as a peddler, Pond describes many aspects of life in frontier Kentucky: changeable weather, agricultural practices and prices, lay preaching, voting, and the lives of slaves, who he believes are well treated and better off than the poor in the North. He describes selling to a Dutchman who dislikes “Yankees,” notes recent political developments, and finds Kentucky …
Laude, Jan (Fa 1140), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Laude, Jan (Fa 1140), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1140. Cassette recordings of the "Attunement for Healing" and "Exploring Your Dreams and ESP" conferences sponsored by the Edgar Cayce Association for Research and Enlightenment held in Virginia Beach, Virginia from 12 July 1981 to 24 July 1981. The recordings, collected by WKU folk studies graduate student Jan Laude, were used as source material for Laude’s Master’s thesis titled “A Contemporary Female Psychic: A Folkloristic Study of a Traditional Occupation,” which was published in 1982. Because the Department does not have consent forms or own copyright to these tapes, they may be used …
Miller, John Goodrum, Sr., 1853-1936 (Mss 629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Miller, John Goodrum, Sr., 1853-1936 (Mss 629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 629. Writings of John Goodrum Miller, Sr., a lawyer and native of Caldwell County, Kentucky. Includes a family history, a personal memoir, and manuscript chapters on early Kentucky history, English church history, and the U.S. Constitution. Also includes a small amount of material related to The Black Patch War, Miller’s book on the Night Riders.
Brinson, Debbie (Fa 1117), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brinson, Debbie (Fa 1117), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1117. Student folk studies project titled: “Preacher Tales,” which includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of preacher tales in Cadiz, Trigg County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a description of the preacher tale, traditional belief, poem, informant’s name, and text classification.
Mansfield, Sherry R. And Bruce Greene (Fa 1112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mansfield, Sherry R. And Bruce Greene (Fa 1112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1112. Student folk studies project titled: “Just a Man—Captain William Hicks” which includes an interview of C. Jeff Hicks, the son of Confederate Captain William Hicks. The interview includes a description of the life of the son and his father while living in Barren County, Kentucky and Sumner County, Tennessee.
Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 623. Minutes, letters, resolutions, subscriptions and other documents relating to the early history of the Presbyterian Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky, including doctrinal schisms in 1837 and 1868 and the reunification of its congregation.
Cosgrove, John (Fa 1111), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cosgrove, John (Fa 1111), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of the paper (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1111. Student folk studies project titled: “The Process of Basket Making” which includes survey sheets with descriptions of the traditional basket making process in Edmonson County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of pictured equipment, traditional practice, tale, and belief.
Bowman, Sheila (Fa 1095), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowman, Sheila (Fa 1095), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1095. Paper titled “A Collection of Preacher Jokes” in which Sheila Bowman gathers together a selection of jokes relating to churches, congregations, and their ministers. Paper is based on data collected by Bowman from her father, Pastor Gates Bowman.
Woolsey, Kennaird E. (Fa 1093), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woolsey, Kennaird E. (Fa 1093), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1093. Student folk studies project titled: “Epitaphs,” which includes survey sheets of gravestone epitaphs organized by theme in Barren County, Edmonson County and Warren County, Kentucky. Survey sheets may include the epitaph, location and text classification along with the rubbing.
Mcdonald, William Rush, B. 1951 (Fa 1090), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcdonald, William Rush, B. 1951 (Fa 1090), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1090. Student folk studies project titled: “Singing Schools,” which includes survey sheets describing the traditions and practices of singing schools in Hart County, Kentucky. Sheets include informant’s age and address, memory, and text classification along with names and photos.
Seidelman, Charles Allen (Fa 1049), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Seidelman, Charles Allen (Fa 1049), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1049. Student folk studies project titled: “A General Interest Survey of the Dutch in America,” which includes interviews and survey sheets with brief descriptions of Dutch folk practices in Okaloosa County, Florida, in Sioux County, Iowa, in Van Buren County, Michigan, and in Whatcom County, Washington. Sheets may include the recipe, song, belief, motif index number, and informant’s name.
Vance, Edward Richard, 1833-1902 (Mss 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Vance, Edward Richard, 1833-1902 (Mss 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 612. Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs and family papers of Richard Vance, a Warren County, Kentucky native and U.S. Army officer. After his Civil War service, Vance spent his career at several posts in the South and on the frontier until his retirement in 1892.
Broughton, Bessie (Downing), 1903-1993 (Mss 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Broughton, Bessie (Downing), 1903-1993 (Mss 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 607. Multi-volume diary of Bessie (Downing) Broughton from Holland in Allen County, Kentucky. The diaries include information about Bessie’s daily life, the weather, her involvement in different organizations, comments about her gardening and needlework, her family and church involvement and school activities.
Gano, John Allen, 1805-1887 (Sc 3096), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gano, John Allen, 1805-1887 (Sc 3096), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding and and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3096. Letters from church leaders in the central Kentucky region to John Allen Gano, a Christian Church minister in Bourbon County, Kentucky. The letters reference the charisma of Gano’s sermons and solicit his visitation to various church meetings and services.
Mcreynolds, Benjamin, 1769-1845 (Mss 603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcreynolds, Benjamin, 1769-1845 (Mss 603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 603. Manuscript books of sermons, religious, medical and other writings created by Benjamin McReynolds, a Butler County, Kentucky Methodist minister. Includes family history and records of schools operated by McReynolds.
Brown, Michael R. - Collector (Sc 3088), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown, Michael R. - Collector (Sc 3088), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3088. Correspondence of Janice Holt Giles related to the “White Caps,” the Brethren in Christ church, and collected by Michael R. Brown for a scholarly article he produced on the topic. Also includes a chronology of Giles’ life compiled by Brown as well as a copy of his completed article. Giles used the information she gleaned about the “White Caps” in one of her books, Tara’s Healing.
Emerson, Jemima (Burnham), 1783-1868 And Romanus Emerson, 1782-1852 (Sc 3086), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Emerson, Jemima (Burnham), 1783-1868 And Romanus Emerson, 1782-1852 (Sc 3086), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3086. Letter, 2 September 1822, from Jemima and Romanus Emerson, Boston, Massachusetts, to Fanny Goodridge, Lexington, Kentucky, in which they express their concern about Goodridge’s move from Boston to Kentucky and her religious experience.
Eastwood Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 3076), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Eastwood Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 3076), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3076. Two letters to Brent Price, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating to his preparation of an article on Eastwood Baptist Church, also in Bowling Green. William H. Rogers, Director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, writes on 22 November 1978 of the principles followed during his pastorship there, and Sam Todd writes on 6 December 1978 with a historical sketch of the church.
Bethlehem Chapel: How A Place Can Be Reinterpreted By Government, Maya Lemaster
Bethlehem Chapel: How A Place Can Be Reinterpreted By Government, Maya Lemaster
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
An important source of legitimacy for all types of government is the creation of or building up of a sense of nationhood for the citizens of the state. This can be achieved in many ways, including through the use of physical nationalist symbols. In my paper, I address this topic by exploring how the Communist government of Czechoslovakia reinterpreted and changed the traditional meaning of the historical Bethlehem Chapel in Prague in order to fit their own ideology. I found that the Communist government emphasized the communal aspects of the Hussite movement and ignored religious associations. My research is primarily …
Adkins, Genevieve (Fa 976), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Adkins, Genevieve (Fa 976), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 976. Paper titled: “Early History and Legends of Green County.” Includes descriptions of stories and legends about the origin and early history of Green County, Kentucky.
Hazelip, Pauline (Fa 974), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hazelip, Pauline (Fa 974), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 974. Paper titled: “Tales of Glasgow Junction.” Includes brief descriptions of stories, pranks and incidents related to Glasgow Junction and Park City, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description of the story and the informant’s name.