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Basket Making In The Mammoth Cave Area (Fa 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Basket Making In The Mammoth Cave Area (Fa 98), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 98. Project entitled "Basket Making in the Mammoth Cave Area." Interviews with basket makers concerning the history, process, marketing and distribution, social attitudes, historical patterns and aesthetics of basket making. Only transcriptions of the interviews were donated. Interviews were conducted by WKU students in Lynwood Montell's Folk Art and Technology class, Fall 1977; also includes one 1974 interview.
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 17, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 17, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.
Grider, Alta (Fa 106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Grider, Alta (Fa 106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 106. Project entitled "Amish/Mennonites in Casey County, Kentucky." Includes interviews, March 11, 1989, with Amish and Mennonites in Casey County, Kentucky, concerning cultural and social beliefs and practices.
Foster, Stephen C., B. 1961 (Fa 103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Foster, Stephen C., B. 1961 (Fa 103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 103. Interview with Stephen Cheek, an herbal doctor. Interview describing Cheek's training and practice as an herbal doctor in Allen County, Kentucky. Includes Katrina A. Riley's analysis of Cheek's curing methods and a list of his remedies.
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 8, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 8, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.
Never Alone: A "Look" At Imaginal Companions, Mary Koegel
Never Alone: A "Look" At Imaginal Companions, Mary Koegel
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
American culture tends to consider imaginary friends (or imaginal companions, as I refer to them) as a folk belief belonging in the realm of childhood. If an adult believes in imaginal companions, they are potentially subject to the social stigma of psychological labeling. The mass media reflects this perception of reality and influences social interactions regarding experiences and beliefs in imaginal companions. Fear of this social stigma limits folk group size, which potentially creates an issue with informant group size. I gathered my informants from a group of friends, whom I interviewed over a one-year period. Although there is a …
Interview With Clint Thompson Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Clint Thompson Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an oral history interview done with Clint Thompson related to his work in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Mammoth Cave in the 1930s.
Chamberlain, William W. (Sc 1492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chamberlain, William W. (Sc 1492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1492. "Folk Music in the Kentucky Barrens," a thesis (268 p.) prepared by Chamberlain at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Discusses folk music traditions and ballads common to south central Kentucky.
Eans, Kevin (Fa 119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Eans, Kevin (Fa 119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 119. "The use of mussel shells in decorating graves in Daviess and McLean Counties [Kentucky]. Documents the use of shells to beautify and mark graves.
Ua1d William Lynwood Montell Personnel File, Wku Human Resources
Ua1d William Lynwood Montell Personnel File, Wku Human Resources
WKU Archives Records
Personnel file of Lynwood Montell former English, Folklore, Center for Intercultural Studies faculty member.