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Lost River Cave Oral History Project (Fa 1414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lost River Cave Oral History Project (Fa 1414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1414. Recorded interviews with 16 informants regarding their memories of the nightclub operated at Bowling Green, Kentucky’s Lost River Cave.
Winstead, Sara C. (Fa 1413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Winstead, Sara C. (Fa 1413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1413. “The Shaker Chair,” a paper written by Sara Winstead for a WKU folk studies class.
Simmons, Mary Jean (Fa 1412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Simmons, Mary Jean (Fa 1412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1412. “Shaker Music as a Genre of Folk Music,” a paper written by Jean Simmons for a WKU folk studies class.
Kentucky Music Legacy Project (Fa 1411), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Music Legacy Project (Fa 1411), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1411. Audio interviews conducted by WKU students with regional musicians regarding their experience and thoughts about the southcentral Kentucky music legacy.
Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2022 (Fa 1410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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, 2021 (Fa 1409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2021 (Fa 1409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1409. 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
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
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
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, 2017 (Fa 1406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2017 (Fa 1406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1406. 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
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.
Kentucky Crafted, 2023 (Fa 1403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Crafted, 2023 (Fa 1403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1403. Audio, video, and photographs documenting folk artists in receipt of grants from the Kentucky Arts Council to train and mentor apprentices. Includes narrative stages in the “Folk Art Zone,” part of the Kentucky Crafted Marketplace at Alltech Arena in Lexington, Kentucky and held on 11-12 March 2023 in partnership with the Kentucky Arts Council, the Kentucky Folklife Program, and the WKU Department of Folk Studies & Anthropology.
Homer Ledford Award, 2023 (Fa 1402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Homer Ledford Award, 2023 (Fa 1402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1402. Video, audio, and photographs documenting the Homer Ledford Award, presented to an exemplary Kentucky luthier and given out in partnership with the Kentucky Arts Council, the Kentucky Folklife Program, and WKU’s Department of Folk Studies & Anthropology. The ceremony took place on 11 March 2023 at the Kentucky Crafted Marketplace in Lexington, Kentucky. Includes interviews and a narrative stage hosted by the Kentucky Folklife Program.
Hammer In, 2016 (Fa 1398), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hammer In, 2016 (Fa 1398), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1398. Audio, photographs, and video documenting Hammer In 2016, a community event held at WKU’s Kentucky Museum in partnership with corporate sponsors, the Kentucky Folklife Program, the Kentucky Forge Council, and WKU’s Department of Folklife & Anthropology. The event celebrates the metal worker’s trade and includes demonstrations, interviews and narrative stages.
Hammer In, 2018 (Fa 1399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hammer In, 2018 (Fa 1399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1399. Audio, photographs, and video documenting Hammer In 2018, a community event held at WKU’s Kentucky Museum in partnership with corporate sponsors, the Kentucky Folklife Program, the Kentucky Forge Council, and WKU’s Department of Folklife & Anthropology. The event celebrates the metal worker’s trade and includes demonstrations, interviews and narrative stages.
Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2015 (Fa 1401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2015 (Fa 1401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
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
Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2013 (Fa 1400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
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.
Page, Tate Cromwell "Piney," 1908-1984 (Fa 1397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Page, Tate Cromwell "Piney," 1908-1984 (Fa 1397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1397. Papers of Page, former Dean of the College of Education at Western Kentucky University, primarily concerning his work documenting the people, places, history and folklore of the Ozarks region in Arkansas where he was raised. Also includes his photographs of historic structures, made mostly in western Kentucky.
Braden, Linda (Fa 1395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Braden, Linda (Fa 1395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1395. “Torch Throwing in Mammoth Cave,” a paper by WKU student Linda Braden that discusses Cave guides, torch making, and the skill of torch throwing to illuminate the Cave during tours.
Rinehard, Catherine J. (Fa 1396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rinehard, Catherine J. (Fa 1396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1396. “The Happy Family: Working as a Waitress at Park Mammoth Resort,” a project by WKU student Cathy Reinhard consisting of a paper and transcriptions of six taped interviews with Treva Nell Merideth, a member of the wait staff at the Park Mammoth Resort restaurant in Park City, Kentucky. Merideth talks about her job responsibilities, coworkers, interactions with customers, and some of her personal beliefs and superstitions. The project also discusses this restaurant as a workplace, its procedures, equipment and layout. Includes a glossary, dining leaflet and …
Meredith, Tracy (Fa 1394), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Meredith, Tracy (Fa 1394), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1394. “Early History of Mammoth Cave,” a project by WKU student Tracy Meredith, consisting of a paper that focuses on early owners, guides and visitors at the Cave; taped interviews with three individuals about their work at the Cave with the Civilian Conservation Corps; and tape indexes.
Covid-19 Oral History Project (Fa 1389), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Covid-19 Oral History Project (Fa 1389), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1389. Interviews conducted with members of the WKU community regarding their experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. Includes summary of participants (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Farmer Cultural Awareness Project (Fa 1388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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.
Musical Legacy Projects (Fa 1387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Musical Legacy Projects (Fa 1387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1387. Audio interviews conducted by WKU oral history students in spring 2022 for the South Central Kentucky Music Project, centering on musicians in Bowling Green and surrounding counties.
Kyrock Oral History Project (Fa 167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kyrock Oral History Project (Fa 167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 167. Interviews conducted February April 1981 with Edmonson County, Kentucky, residents concerning the Kentucky Rock Asphalt Company. Includes information on the Methodist church, schools, social life and customs, United Mine Workers of America Local #72, and working conditions.
Willoughby, Ginny (Fa 1379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Willoughby, Ginny (Fa 1379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1379. “Restoration and Tradition: Andy Mills’ Work on the Felts Log House,” a paper written by WKU student Ginny Willoughby about the Felts log house, a Logan County, Kentucky structure now situated on the campus of Western Kentucky University. The paper details the history and design of the house and the process of its current restoration. Includes comments from Andy Mills, interviewed by Willoughby as he performed restoration work on the house.
Hagan, Brooklyn (Fa 1378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hagan, Brooklyn (Fa 1378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1378. “The Felts Log House: Past, Present and Future,” a paper written by WKU student Brooklyn Hagan about the Felts log house, a Logan County, Kentucky structure now situated on the campus of Western Kentucky University. The paper details the history of the house and its restoration. Includes comments from Andy Mills, interviewed by Hagan as he performed restoration work on the house.
John C. Campbell Folk School - Brasstown, North Carolina (Fa 1377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
John C. Campbell Folk School - Brasstown, North Carolina (Fa 1377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 1377. Research materials for a history of the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina, compiled by Dr. James M. Gifford.
Jenkins, Martha Ann (Combs) - Collector (Fa 1376), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jenkins, Martha Ann (Combs) - Collector (Fa 1376), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1376. Weaving projects, chiefly for place mats, created by students in the Consumer and Family Sciences program at WKU. The projects usually include notes on materials and methodology, sketches, instructions, and a weaving sample.
Ridington, Amber Flower, B. 1969 (Fa 458), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ridington, Amber Flower, B. 1969 (Fa 458), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 458. Material produced and collected for a film titled “On the Dixie Bee: The Quonset Auditorium Legacy,” which includes interviews with performers about their time at the Quonset Auditorium in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Interviews may include a brief description of their performances, memories of the Quonset and thoughts about its demolition.