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Farmer Cultural Awareness Project (Fa 1388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2022

Farmer Cultural Awareness Project (Fa 1388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1388. Audio interviews with farmers in the ten-county Barren River Area Development District (BRADD) of Kentucky regarding their experiences as farmers, conducted as part of a project to raise awareness and understanding among the non-farming public. Includes brief biographical data (Click on "Additional Files" below), interview transcriptions, and photographs.


Hobson, Edward Henry, 1825-1901 (Mss 736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2022

Hobson, Edward Henry, 1825-1901 (Mss 736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 736. Photocopied correspondence of Brigadier General Edward H. Hobson of Greensburg, Kentucky. Letters from his family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, fellow soldiers, colleagues and citizens of Greensburg cover his Mexican War and Civil War service, his business ventures, and attempts to win political office. Includes Hobson's memoranda of actions against Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan in 1864, a list of prisoners taken from Morgan's and other brigades, and a letter from Hobson's nephew deploring an 1892 lynching in Bowling Green, Kentucky (Click on "Additional Files" below).