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Thompson, Elois (Fa 1258), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1258. Student paper titled “Uncle Henry and the Kentucky Mountaineers” in which Elois Thompson details the life and career of “farmer, soldier, boxer, dairy-farm employee, comedian, aircraft factory employee, and hillbilly musician” Henry Green Warren. Thompson describes Warren’s childhood in Green County, his beginnings as a host on a popular radio program, and his time as a musician in several country music bands. Collection contains a draft of the original paper with the editor’s notes and the final copy of Thompson’s paper.

Artists In Residence - Union County (Fa 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

Artists In Residence - Bourbon County (Fa 610), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 610. Project conducted in Bourbon County, Kentucky to identify and utilize local folk artists in a county elementary school. Project coordinator Sue Massek conducted interviews with local folk artists and performers. She then presented information about them at the school and asked some of the folk artists and performers to perform or demonstrate.

Folklorist In The Park - Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park (Fa 606), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 606. Project conducted in Hopkins, Christian and Caldwell Counties and Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park to identify and utilize local folk artists and performers. Materials include field notes, a daily activity log, and audio interviews on cassette tapes with traditional artists. Also includes an index of the interviews (Click on "Additional Files" below).

Folklorist In The Parks - Natural Bridge State Resort Park (Fa 605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 605. Project conducted in Powell, Wolfe and Lee Counties and Natural Bridge State Resort Park to identify and utilize local folk artists and performers. Materials include fieldnotes, promotional materials, and audio interviews on cassette tapes with traditional artists.

Trout, Allan Mitchell, 1903-1972 (Mss 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 346. Correspondence and writings relating to the career of Allan Mitchell Trout, political reporter and columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal. Includes letters from readers, written mostly on the occasion of his retirement, collections of Trout's "Greetings" columns, speeches and articles, historical memorabilia, correspondence relating to the Allan M. Trout Collection at Western Kentucky University, and messages of sympathy to his wife after Trout's death.

Geiger, Alison Anne (Fa 14), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 14. Interviews conducted by Alison Geiger with Grace (Meador) Galloway about her quilting. Includes step-by-step instructions, with photographs, demonstrating the construction of a cathedral window quilt block. Grace's life is also discussed, including raising her family on a farm in Warren County.

Glynn, Luanne Carol (Aylesworth) (Fa 518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 518. This collection contains tape recorded interviews (28) conducted by Luanne Glynn with Ellis Yeargin Hurt (1900-1994) of Cadiz, Trigg County, Kentucky. The interviews relay Ellis's life history. The project also includes an interpretive paper, a project proposal and summary as well as tape indexes. This project was the result of a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

Trigg County, Kentucky African American Oral History Project (Fa 196), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid for Folklife Archives Project 196. Project by four WKU Folk Studies students in which they interviewed Trigg County, Kentucky African Americans about various aspects of their lives. Most of the individuals that were interviewed had a rural background and were born in the early 1900s. Interviews may be accessed by clicking on the "Additional Files" below.

Interview With Oda Shouse, Sr. And Clara Shouse Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Oda Shouse, Sr. and Clara Shouse conducted by Keith Smith for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Mr. Shouse does most of the speaking. He discusses his life and times including information about floods, the Great Depression, tobacco farming, rural medicine, rural electrification, automobiles and telephones.

Interview With Charlie Earl Coy Regarding His Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Charlie Earl Coy conducted by Keith Smith for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Coy discusses his life and times, including information about his childhood in Daviess County, Kentucky, farms and farming, the Great Depression, tobacco, social life and customs, airplanes, radios, television, tractors and other farm equipment, women's suffrage and influenza.

Tobacco Farming: The Persistence Of Tradition, Eugene Umberger Jr.

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The culture of tobacco has been associated with the history of Kentucky almost from the beginning and remains to this day a vital force in the state’s economy. In this age of scientific and technological advances – of increasing automation – we find that in tobacco farming, hand labor still figures prominently in the production of a major staple crop. This has resulted in the retention of traditional method, technology and terminology, long since lost in the culture of other crops which lent themselves more easily to mechanization.

The study is divided into three parts. Chapter I deals briefly with …