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Sadewasser, Judith K. "Judi" (Fa 1308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sadewasser, Judith K. "Judi" (Fa 1308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1308. Student folk studies project titled “The Folkways of Walter D. Logsdon: Basketmaker,” which includes an interview with Walter Logsdon about the traditional basket making process in Edmonson County, Kentucky. Project includes interview transcriptions along with sheets with a brief description of each traditional practice, tool, and photo.
Woolfolk, Miriam Lamy, B. 1926 (Sc 3343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woolfolk, Miriam Lamy, B. 1926 (Sc 3343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3343. “Notes, Sketches of Kentucky’s Covered Bridges” by Miriam Woolfolk, a booklet compiling data on sixteen covered bridges in Kentucky accompanied by sketches of each, and a poem by the author. Includes a brochure, “Covered Bridges: A Vanishing Species,” offering programs by the author on covered bridges and other topics.
Valentines (Sc 3134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Valentines (Sc 3134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3134. Handmade and colored valentine “from Eunice” to an unnamed recipient, featuring a drawing of a young girl with lettered greeting, “My heart I lay at your feet, O be my Valentine sweet.”
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.
Valentines (Sc 830), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Valentines (Sc 830), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 830. Original handcut valentine with poetry written in circular fashion to William [Carson?], ca. 1850. Also included is typescript of the text.
Richardson, Laura Elizabeth (Ferguson), 1908-1986 (Sc 2546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Richardson, Laura Elizabeth (Ferguson), 1908-1986 (Sc 2546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2546. Laura Elizabeth Richardson’s notebook containing holographic notes about the history of quilting. Notebook includes hand executed quilt pattern images in ink, poems, definitions of quilting terms, and textile descriptions. Includes notes about the provenance of Richardson’s quilt collectionand her furniture.
Venable Family Papers (Mss 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Venable Family Papers (Mss 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 382. Correspondence, account books, receipts, sermons, drawings, and diaries of the Venable family of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, chiefly John Wesley Venable, Sr. and his wife Fannie and son John, Jr. Of particular interest is an 1839-1839 travel journal kept by John, Sr. while in Florida. Also includes John, Sr.’s sermons and sermon preparation material as well as thirty-nine small diaries documenting his career as an Episcopal priest in Versailles and Hopkinsville. Includes one of John, Sr.’s art sketch books.
Wilson, Ivan, 1889-1981 (Mss 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Ivan, 1889-1981 (Mss 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 356. Correspondence, photographs, sketches and drawings, writings, journals and clippings of or relating to Ivan Wilson, an artist and faculty member in the Art Department at Western Kentucky University from 1920 to 1958. Includes some materials related to other artists.
Ua94/6/1 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Western Kentucky University Small Collections, Wku Archives
Ua94/6/1 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Western Kentucky University Small Collections, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Small collections of personal papers and oral histories relating to the Western Kentucky University.
Basket Making In The Mammoth Cave Area (Fa 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Basket Making In The Mammoth Cave Area (Fa 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
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.
Ua12/2/1 L'Esprit, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 L'Esprit, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
Special edition of College Heights Herald featuring student poets and artists.
- Oelze, Deborah. Welcome Home
- Marcum, Joe. Negation
- Newbolt, Denis. The Fall Runner
- Meluch, Jerry. Step of Greeting
- Tope, Becky. Love Should Be Like That
- Henton, Marty. Reminiscing
- Thompson, Celeste. Brisk November Day
- Henton, Marty. Metamorphosis
- Minor, Cindy. When Love of Life Lingers
- Sevigny, Maurice. Blueberries for Freud
- Wright, Lynn. The Misty Mountains
- Sevigny, Maurice. Sailboats Stacked for Winter
- Whitley, Susan. Age to Youth
Ua12/2/1 L'Esprit, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 L'Esprit, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
Literary supplement of the College Heights Herald published each semester. It began as a class project for a Problems in Journalism class and was first published in January of 1969. The name is a French term meaning spirit. The goal of L’esprit is to provide, in as proper of a literary style as possible, an outlet for original poems, short stories, pictures and art work by students and faculty at Western Kentucky University
This issue includes:
- Paradise Envisioned
- Stahl, Andrew. Untitled
- Browning, Jim. She’s Busy Tonight
- Whitley, Susan. Recall
- Whitley, Susan. . . . and You Were There
- Shields, Marsha. …