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Farmer, Lynn E. (Fa 1335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2019

Farmer, Lynn E. (Fa 1335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 1335. Folklore material classified by genre which includes survey sheets with a brief description of a tall tale, joke or religious story in Estill, Green, Jefferson, and Taylor counties in Kentucky. Material collected for a folklore genres class at Campbellsville College, Campbellsville, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of the tale, informant’s name, place of birth, and location.

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Dunbar, Thomas (Fa 1329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2019

Dunbar, Thomas (Fa 1329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1329. Campbellsville College student folk studies project titled “Three Legends [about Creatures]” which includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of local tales about unusual creatures in Green, Jefferson and Martin counties of Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of a traditional tale or legend and informant’s name, age and location of birth

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Mann, Joan E. (Fa 1321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2019

Mann, Joan E. (Fa 1321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1321. Campbellsville College student folk studies project titled “Local Tales” which includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of local tales from Jefferson, Marion, Nelson, and Washington counties in Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of traditional tale and informant’s name, age, and location of birth.

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Bailey, Joe Kenneth (Fa 1312), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2019

Bailey, Joe Kenneth (Fa 1312), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1312. Student folk studies project titled “Folk Remedies,” which includes entries with brief descriptions of folk remedies collected in Jefferson County and Logan County, Kentucky. Entries may include a brief description of belief, remedy, traditional practice, and informant’s name, age and origin of remedy.

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Stewart, Wayne (Fa 1307), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2019

Stewart, Wayne (Fa 1307), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1307. Student folk studies project titled: “Folk Remedies and Outlaw Tales,” which includes brief descriptions of folk remedies and outlaw tales in south central Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of belief, traditional practice, remedy, saying, outlaw tale, and informant’s name.

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Straub, Karen (Fa 1196), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2018

Straub, Karen (Fa 1196), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1196. Student paper titled “Mrs. Robert H. Saylor in Doll Making” in which Karen Straub interviews Mrs. Saylor, acraftswoman and doll making enthusiast. Straub offers insight into Saylor’s personal history with doll collecting and doll making, the materials Saylor uses in order to sew her products, the research and inspiration behind the process, popular trade publications and clubs relating to doll making, and specific step-by-step instructions on how to complete several varieties of dolls.

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Tinker, Robert Rush (Fa 1149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2018

Tinker, Robert Rush (Fa 1149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1149. Student folk studies project titled “Playground Language: [Newburg, Kentucky]” which includes survey sheets with a brief description of playground rhymes in Newburg, Jefferson County, Kentucky. Sheets may include rope skipping rhyme, group game, informant’s name, and text classification.

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Collins, Sara (Fa 1134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2018

Collins, Sara (Fa 1134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1134. Student paper titled “Ghost Stories on a College Campus” in which Sara Collins gathers together tales of the supernatural. Collins places the stories into four main categories: “true” (classic), “memorate” (personal experiences), “regional” (local), and “other campuses.” Stories were collected by Collins from friends and fellow classmates.

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Osborne, Lois (Fa 1121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2017

Osborne, Lois (Fa 1121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1121. Student folk studies project titled: "Good and Bad Luck Beliefs," which includes notecards with brief descriptions of traditional beliefs about good and bad luck in Cook County, Illinois, Dearborn County, Indiana, Knox County, Tennessee, and the counties of Barren, Fayette, Hardin, Hart, Hopkins, Jefferson and Nelson in Kentucky. Notecards may include a description of the traditional belief, informant's name and address, motif index number, and text classification.

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Leopold, Beth (Fa 1113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2017

Leopold, Beth (Fa 1113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1113. Student folk studies project titled: Smith’s Grove and Miscellaneous Tales” which includes survey sheets with descriptions of the traditional belief about the naming of Smiths Grove in Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of the belief, informant’s name, address, and motif index classification. A second small project by Leopold includes survey sheets of folk tales told by her grandmother, Rosa Leopold, in Jefferson County, Kentucky.

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Sutherland, David (Fa 1056), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2017

Sutherland, David (Fa 1056), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1056. Student folk studies project titled: “Ghost Stories Western Students Tell,” which includes survey sheets with ghost tales in Fayette County, Indiana and in Allen County, Jefferson County, Warren County and Webster County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a ghost story, informant’s name and address, and motif index number.

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Pestel, Jerry (Fa 1026), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2017

Pestel, Jerry (Fa 1026), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1026. Student folk studies project titled: “Polack Jokes,” which includes interviews and survey sheets about Polack jokes from Jefferson County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a joke, informant’s name, motif index number, and photos.

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Chatelain, Marcia Anne (Fa 994), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Chatelain, Marcia Anne (Fa 994), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Folklife Archives Project 994. Project titled: “Folklore in Cookery.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of beliefs, superstitions, proverbs, tales, riddles, songs and recipes of food preservation in Franklin County, Jefferson County, Oldham County, Pulaski County, and Warren County, Kentucky and Missouri. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and motif index number.

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Slaughter, Michael R. (Fa 973), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Slaughter, Michael R. (Fa 973), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 973. Paper titled: “The Ghost of the Bridge.” Includes brief descriptions of stories about parked lovers collected in the Bluegrass and Pennyroyal Region of Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.

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Cardwell, Judith (Fa 979), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Cardwell, Judith (Fa 979), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 979. Project titled: “Elephant Jokes.” Includes survey sheets with elephant jokes and the informant’s name collected from Jefferson County, Monroe County, Muhlenburg County, and Warren County, Kentucky, Virginia and Wisconsin.

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Miller, Herbert (Fa 971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Miller, Herbert (Fa 971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 971. Paper titled: “The Girl in the Window.” Includes descriptions of variations of the Russellville Girl story collected in Jefferson County and Logan County, Kentucky.

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Bostic, Patti (Fa 966), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Bostic, Patti (Fa 966), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 966. Paper titled: “The Function of Various Barns Located in Jefferson County, Outside Jeffersontown.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of barns in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, owner’s name, terms, and a photo of the barn.

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Carter, John Mark (Fa 945), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Carter, John Mark (Fa 945), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 945. Paper titled: “A Collection of Ghost Stories.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of ghost stories from Bowling Green, Frankfort, and the Pennyrile region of Kentucky, and California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and the motif index number.

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Rivers, David (Fa 944), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Rivers, David (Fa 944), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 944. Paper titled: “Ghost Stories.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of ghost stories from the Bluegrass and Pennyrile regions of Kentucky, and from Sumner County, Tennessee, Mississippi and Ohio. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and the motif index number.

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Pride, William R. (Fa 933), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Pride, William R. (Fa 933), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 933. Student folk studies project titled: “Epitaphs,” which includes gravestone epitaphs collected from cemeteries in Jefferson County, Oldham County, Union County and Warren County, Kentucky.

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Mason, Thomas Lee (Fa 926), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Mason, Thomas Lee (Fa 926), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 926. Paper titled: "Proverbs and Beliefs." Project includes introduction of folk beliefs and proverbs in Fayette, Jefferson, and Spencer counties in Kentucky.

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Knott, Leslie (Fa 929), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Knott, Leslie (Fa 929), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 929. Project titled: “Collecting Project: Gravestone Epitaphs.” Includes introduction of gravestone epitaphs in Bullitt County, Jefferson County, and Warren County, Kentucky.

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Wathen, Leslie (Fa 916), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Wathen, Leslie (Fa 916), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 916. Project titled: “Children’s Games.” Project includes paper with introduction of games played by children from Daviess County, Henderson County, and Jefferson County, Kentucky.

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Line, Kenny (Fa 921), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Line, Kenny (Fa 921), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 921. Project titled: “Folk Beliefs and Superstitions.” Includes paper with introduction of folk beliefs in Barren Grayson and Jefferson counties in Kentucky.

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Halgash, Rhonda (Fa 907), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2016

Halgash, Rhonda (Fa 907), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 907 titled: "Wedding Beliefs." Project includes note cards with brief descriptions of beliefs about weddings from Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, informant's name, and the informant classification.

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Degen, Barbara (Fa 908), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2016

Degen, Barbara (Fa 908), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 908. Project titled: “Student Beliefs at Western Kentucky University.” Project includes survey sheets and note cards with brief descriptions of students at Western Kentucky University from Kentucky and New Jersey. Sheets include a brief description of belief, informant’s name, and classification. Note cards include a brief description, informant’s name, and motif index number.

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Blanton, Bob (Fa 910), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2016

Blanton, Bob (Fa 910), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 910. Project titled: “A Collection of Ghost Stories.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of ghost stories in the Bluegrass, Eastern Mountain and Penny Royal regions of Kentucky and Pennsylvania and Virginia. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and the motif index number.

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Berry, Diana R. (Fa 904), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2016

Berry, Diana R. (Fa 904), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 904. Project titled: “Christmas Folk Beliefs.” Project includes note cards with brief descriptions of Christmas beliefs in Jefferson County and Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description and informant’s name.

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Cross, Connie (Fa 845), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2016

Cross, Connie (Fa 845), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 845. This collection, discusses epitaphs gathered at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky. This project was done by Connie Cross, a student at Western Kentucky University for a folk studies class.

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Kentucky Folklife Program - County Files (Fa 748), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2015

Kentucky Folklife Program - County Files (Fa 748), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Collection FA 748. This collection contains material relating to 29 of Kentucky's 120 counties that was collected by Kentucky Folklife Program director Bob Gates. Collection materials includes items such as tourist brochures, newspaper articles, and county maps.

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