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Rothfuss, Erik, B. 1987 (Fa 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rothfuss, Erik, B. 1987 (Fa 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 488. Information collected by Erik Rothfuss related to folklore genres for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Phillips, Jennifer, B. 1988 (Fa 487), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Phillips, Jennifer, B. 1988 (Fa 487), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional File" below) for Folklife Archives Project 487. Folklore material classified by genre. Information collected by Jennifer Phillips related to folklore genres for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Klimowicz, Teresa D. (Fa 13), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Klimowicz, Teresa D. (Fa 13), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 13. Interviews conducted by Teresa D. Klimowicz with Esther (Magers) Isbell, a native of Barren Coutny, Kentucky. Special attention is focused on her biblical themed quilts. Isbell also discusses her various occupations and participation in community affairs while living in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Karmiller, Courtney Anne, B. 1989 (Fa 485), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Karmiller, Courtney Anne, B. 1989 (Fa 485), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional File" below) for Folklife Archives Project 485. Folklore material classified by genre. Information collected by Courtney Anne Karmiller related to folklore genres for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Glynn, Luanne Carol (Aylesworth), B. 1951 (Fa 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Glynn, Luanne Carol (Aylesworth), B. 1951 (Fa 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 11. Interviews conducted by Luanne Carol (Aylesworth) Glynn with Marvel (Welborn) Mohon, Lewisburg, Kentucky concerning Thanksgiving customs, with much attention paid to Marvel’s life, especially her family.
Mckee, Ann Elizabeth (Fa 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mckee, Ann Elizabeth (Fa 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 9. Interviews conducted by Ann McKee with Mary Elizabeth (McPherson) Ricketts, Bowling Green, Kentucky, about her experiences concerning the Kentucky Derby. Topics include Louisville hotels and Derby food and fashion.
Bibler, Thomas Edward (Fa 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bibler, Thomas Edward (Fa 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 8. Interviews conducted by Thomas Bibler. Includes interviews with Joseph Bryan Houk, Bowling, Kentucky, about his life and Christmas and New Year's customs in Hart County and Warren County, Kentucky, and Columbus, Ohio.
Kinchlow, Gina Lloyce (Fa 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kinchlow, Gina Lloyce (Fa 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding Aid only for Folklife Archives Project 4. Interviews conducted by Gina Kinchlow for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes interviews with Carolyn Alexander and Vivian Glass about their lives as African American women.
Hulsey, Jennifer Lynn (Hensley) (Fa 5), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hulsey, Jennifer Lynn (Hensley) (Fa 5), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu
Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), B. 1941 (Fa 3), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), B. 1941 (Fa 3), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 3. Interviews conducted by Dianne Watkins with Earl Hamilton Berkley about Berkley family reunions (1929-1984), and the family farm and service station located on Morgantown Road in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes cassette tapes, originals, typescripts and photocopies.
Dowell, John Alan (Fa 2), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dowell, John Alan (Fa 2), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 2. Interviews conducted by John Alan Dowell with George M. Carter which provide bigraphical data about Carter and highlight his storytelling talent. Includes interviews with Carter on cassette tapes, transcriptions, tape summaries, glossary, bibliography and photographs.
Beisswenger, Donald Andre (Fa 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Beisswenger, Donald Andre (Fa 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1. Project titled "White Gospel Music in Logan County" conducted by Donald Andre Beisswenger for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes interviews with Jeff and Gwen McKinney and Chester Whitescarver about singing schools and white gospel music. Transcript of McKinney interview included as well as a tape summary for the Whitescarver interview.
Hatfield-Gaines Family, 1834-1981 (Mss 2275), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hatfield-Gaines Family, 1834-1981 (Mss 2275), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2275. Chiefy receipts, deeds, wills, and other legal and financial documents of the Hatfield and Gaines families of Simpson County, Kentucky. Includes some Civil War-era correspondence of the Hatfield family.
Slaney, Brett (Fa 523), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Slaney, Brett (Fa 523), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 523. This collection consists of material collected by Brett Slaney for a Western Kentucky Univeristy folk studies class. The collection includes a recording, tape index, photograph, and field notes from a bluegrass performance at the Rosine Barn Jamboree in Rosine, Kentucky. Also included are field notes and photographs from the 2004 Southern Folklilfe Festival at the Carnton Plantation in Franklin, Tennessee and photographs of examples of material culture.
Shorts, Roberta (Fa 520), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shorts, Roberta (Fa 520), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 520. Material collected by Roberta Shorts for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class. Included are recordings and fieldnotes for interviews with six individuals on personal experience narratives, ghost stories, and jokes and photographs, fieldnotes, and a PowerPoint presentation on material culture and of a 2004 String Cheese Incident concert at the Louisville Palace Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky.
Gibbs, Renee Dorothea, B. 1976 (Fa 521), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gibbs, Renee Dorothea, B. 1976 (Fa 521), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 521. Collection consists of material accumulated by Renee Dorothea Gibbs for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class. Includes a recording, index, and photographs from an interview with James Larry Crawford about growing up in Cave City, Kentucky; Mammoth Cave and other caves in the area; and farming tobacco. Also includes photographs of dishes and baskets made by Willow Block.
Glynn, Luanne Carol (Aylesworth) (Fa 518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Glynn, Luanne Carol (Aylesworth) (Fa 518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
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.
Flener, Sheila Gail (Sullivan), B. 1958 (Fa 517), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Flener, Sheila Gail (Sullivan), B. 1958 (Fa 517), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Collection includes material collected by Sheila S. Flener for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class. Included is an interview with Frank Sullivan about his childhood, family, and Korean War service and a PowerPoint presentation dealing with folklore genres and including photographs from the 2004 Saint James Art Show in Louisville, Kentucky; the 2004 Crossing Festival in Glendale, Kentucky; and examples of material culture.
Perrin, Anne Gray (Fa 516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Perrin, Anne Gray (Fa 516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Collection includes materials assembled by Anne Gray Perrin for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class. Included are interviews with four informants about family and personal narratives and ghost stories; photographs of the 2004 Kentucky American Saddlebred Pleasure Horse Association’s State Championship in Shelbyville, Kentucky; and photos documenting material culture in Bowling Green and Shelbyville, Kentucky.
Cain, Bevie Waughn, 1844-1883 (Sc 2251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cain, Bevie Waughn, 1844-1883 (Sc 2251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2251. Letters (31) from Cain to James M. Davis, written mostly during the Civil War from her home and school in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, and from Illinois. A strong Confederate sympathizer, Cain responds to Davis’s support of the Union, criticizes President Abraham Lincoln, and opines freely on love, courtship and marriage. She also writes of mutual friends, family, and social and religious activities. Includes 3 additional letters to Davis from his father, sister, and a friend who writes of an opportunity to manage a store. Also includes …
Stoner, Joel, B. 1950 (Fa 492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stoner, Joel, B. 1950 (Fa 492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 492. Interviews, transcriptions, photographs, and miscellaneous data collected by Joel Stoner pertaining to the Bowling Green, Kentucky music scene in the 1970s.
Hickey, Frankie (Fa 511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hickey, Frankie (Fa 511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Foklife Archives Project 511. This collection contains a tape recorded interview conducted by Frankie Hickey with Ida Ellington Williams. It also contains short written life stories for Williams and several other African Americans from southcentral Kentucky and middle Tennessee.
African American Heritage In Bowling Green And Warren County, Kentucky (Fa 509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
African American Heritage In Bowling Green And Warren County, Kentucky (Fa 509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 509. This collection contains tape recorded interviews conducted by Maxine Ray and Theresa Lee. the interviews deal with the heritage of African Americans in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky. This project was sponsored by a grant from the Kentucky Oral History Commission.
Hodges, Jack, Ii (Fa 227), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hodges, Jack, Ii (Fa 227), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 227. Paper: "Family Ghost Stories" written by Jack Hodges II for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Norris, Ruby (Fa 218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Norris, Ruby (Fa 218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of collection (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 218. Paper: "[Folk Medicine in Cumberland County]" written by Ruby Norris for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
That Other Club, 1966-2010 (Sc 2222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
That Other Club, 1966-2010 (Sc 2222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2222. Minutes, brief history by James D. Harris, Jr., and sundry correspondence related to That Other Club, a men's literary club founded in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1966. Minutes are brief and generally include those in attendance and the program topic.
Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Sc 2206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Sc 2206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2206. Correspondence relating to the Mrs. A. H. Taylor Company, a Bowling Green, Kentucky dressmaking firm. Includes letters from customers and a measurement questionnaire. A letter by an unidentified writer recommends the wages paid by Mrs. Taylor. Includes transcriptions of the letters made by Western Kentucky University student Theresa L. Jureka for her 1983 thesis on Taylor, and one unrelated letter from a father to his son.
Morgan, John, B. 1944 (Fa 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morgan, John, B. 1944 (Fa 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 476. Fieldwork--including oral interviews, videotapes, and secondary information--compiled by John Morgan primarily pertaining to dark-fire tobacco barns in Calloway County, Kentucky and North Carolina. Also includes interviews relating to tugboats, basket making, and ghost stories and supernatural tales from western Kentucky.
Rubo, Aileen (Fa 490), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rubo, Aileen (Fa 490), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid for Folklife Archives Project 490. Taped interviews conducted by Aileen Rubo about one-room school houses in Adair County, Kentucky. Includes transcirptions, photographs, and typescripts. To see transcripts of three interviews from this collection, click on the "Additional Files" below.
Waggener, Tom (Fa 491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Waggener, Tom (Fa 491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 491. Taped interviews conducted by Tom Waggener about the "Giles House." Includes transcriptions, photographs, and typescripts.