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The Beeson Farmstead: A Study Of The Functional Aspects Of A Black Farm In The Richland Community, Annelen Archbold Aug 1974

The Beeson Farmstead: A Study Of The Functional Aspects Of A Black Farm In The Richland Community, Annelen Archbold

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study documents the lifestyle on a small, prosperous black farmstead in the Richland community of Butler County, Kentucky. It is based on extensive fieldwork and interviews conducted with Percy Beeson, owner of the farm for aver fifty years. The result of the fieldwork and interviews was the documentation of how this farmstead, maintained without mechanical farm equipment, worked as a functional unit on a year-round basis.

As a functional unit, the Beeson farmstead is described in terms of the Beeson family and their ownership of the farm and the breakdown of the property into two dependent units. In the …


Ua11/2 Ag Outlook Optimistic For Kentucky, Wku Public Affairs Feb 1974

Ua11/2 Ag Outlook Optimistic For Kentucky, Wku Public Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Press release regarding agriculture conference held at WKU with participants Will Erwin, Clarence Palmby, Charles French and Robert Rudd.


Ua66/1/2 Scrapbook, Wku Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Jan 1974

Ua66/1/2 Scrapbook, Wku Ogden College Of Science & Engineering

WKU Archives Records

Scrapbook of clippings, press releases, photographs and other items related to the history of Ogden College of Science & Technology from 1961 to 1974.