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Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2022 (Fa 1410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2023

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2022 (Fa 1410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

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 Dec 2023

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2021 (Fa 1409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

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 Dec 2023

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2019 (Fa 1408), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

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 Dec 2023

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2018 (Fa 1407), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

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 Dec 2023

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2016 (Fa 1405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

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 Dec 2023

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2017 (Fa 1406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

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 Dec 2023

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2014 (Fa 1404), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

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.


Homer Ledford Award, 2023 (Fa 1402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2023

Homer Ledford Award, 2023 (Fa 1402), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

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.


Kentucky Crafted, 2023 (Fa 1403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2023

Kentucky Crafted, 2023 (Fa 1403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

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.


Hammer In, 2018 (Fa 1399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2023

Hammer In, 2018 (Fa 1399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

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.


Hammer In, 2016 (Fa 1398), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2023

Hammer In, 2016 (Fa 1398), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

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.


Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2015 (Fa 1401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2023

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 Nov 2023

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 Nov 2023

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.


Rinehard, Catherine J. (Fa 1396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2023

Rinehard, Catherine J. (Fa 1396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

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 …


Braden, Linda (Fa 1395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2023

Braden, Linda (Fa 1395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

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.


Meredith, Tracy (Fa 1394), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2023

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.