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Shelley D. Owens (Fa 840), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2015

Shelley D. Owens (Fa 840), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 840. Paper titled “Supernatural Stories from the Hill” written by Shelley D. Owens for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University (WKU). In the paper she discusses stories told to her that involve the supernatural on WKU’s campus, particularly in buildings. Appendix includes typescripts of stories that were sent to Owens via social media.

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Elections And Election Campaigns - Gallatin County, Kentucky (Sc 2960), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2015

Elections And Election Campaigns - Gallatin County, Kentucky (Sc 2960), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2960. Certification of vote results in an election in Gallatin County, Kentucky on 3 November 1868 for electors for President and Vice President of the United States and for Member of Congress for Kentucky’s Sixth Congressional District. Includes names and the number of votes received.

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Community Scholars Program - Hopkins County, Kentucky (Fa 736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2015

Community Scholars Program - Hopkins County, Kentucky (Fa 736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 736. This collection contains information and documentation about the Community Scholars Program’s workshops held in Hopkins County, Kentucky during the summer of 2008. The collection chiefly consists of projects completed by program participants.

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Kentucky Folklife Program - Artists (Fa 743), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2015

Kentucky Folklife Program - Artists (Fa 743), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 743. This collection contains information relating to the various artists involved with the Kentucky Folklife Program. Many of the artists included in this collection participated in programs offered at, but not limited to, the Kentucky Folklife Festival, Made to be Played Exhibit, apprenticeship programs, and survey or fieldwork that was conducted by the Kentucky Folklife Program. Artists included musicians (gospel, blues, bluegrass, banjo, thumbpicking guitarists, and singing) to traditional artists (painting, quilting, storytelling, basketmaking, and instrument making). The collection also includes musical groups and places relating to artists and art forms. The collection …

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Kentucky’S Public Health Strategic Plan: Strengthening Foundational Services & Improving Population Health, Glen P. Mays Oct 2015

Kentucky’S Public Health Strategic Plan: Strengthening Foundational Services & Improving Population Health, Glen P. Mays

Health Management and Policy Presentations

This session examines recent progress toward the 2012 Institute of Medicine recommendation to identify the components and costs of a "minimum package" of public health services and foundational capabilities to be available across the U.S. Research about the health and economic benefits of Foundational Public Health Services has begun to shape Kentucky's strategic plan for transforming the public health system.

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Swartz, Larry (Fa 838), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2015

Swartz, Larry (Fa 838), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 838. This collection includes Negro spirituals collected from African American Baptist churches located in Bowling Green, Kentucky. This project was completed by Larry Swartz and Doug Gibson for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

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Denzer, Gail (Fa 836), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2015

Denzer, Gail (Fa 836), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 836. This collection discusses epitaphs that were collected in Evansville, Indiana and Bowling Green, Kentucky. This project was completed by Gail Denzer, a student at Western Kentucky University, for credit in a folk studies class.

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Griffey, Julie (Fa 835), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2015

Griffey, Julie (Fa 835), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 835. This collection discusses epitaphs that were collected in Bowling Green, Kentucky and Springfield, Kentucky. In this paper background stories are provided for each epitaph. This project was completed by Julie Griffey, a student at Western Kentucky University, for credit in a folk studies class.

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Forbes, Anne (Fa 837), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2015

Forbes, Anne (Fa 837), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 837. This collection discusses and describes the difficulties involved in collecting epitaphs. The epitaphs collected were from cemeteries located in Bowling Green, Kentucky and Shaker Heights, Ohio. This project was completed by Anne Forbes and Ellen Foster, students at Western Kentucky University, for credit in a folk studies class.

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Warren County, Kentucky - Tax Records (Mss 548), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2015

Warren County, Kentucky - Tax Records (Mss 548), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 548. Bound volume recording local taxes paid by residents of Warren County, Kentucky for 1939. Includes names and addresses of both white and African American residents.

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Bowling Green, Kentucky - Improvement Assessment Bond (Sc 2945), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2015

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Improvement Assessment Bond (Sc 2945), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2945. City of Bowling Green, Kentucky, Improvement Assessment Bond, Winfield Acres Subdivision Water and Sanitary Sewer Project of 1969, with face value of $1,000, maturing 1 October 1990. Includes six $40 coupons and envelope. Also includes one $35 coupon for interest due on Improvement Assessment Bond, Thoroughbred Acres Subdivision Sanitary and Water Project of 1973, dated 1 April 1974 and maturing on 1 April 1993.

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Goofee, William (Fa 830), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2015

Goofee, William (Fa 830), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 830. This project discusses collected epitaphs from five cemeteries in Louisville, Kentucky. The cemeteries include two large public and three small family-neighborhood types. William Gooffee, a student at Western Kentucky University, completed this project for a folk studies class.

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Allen, David (Fa 831), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2015

Allen, David (Fa 831), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 831. This project is a collection of epitaphs from two different cemeteries, one located in Bowling Green, Kentucky, the other in Naples, Florida. David Allen a student at Western Kentucky University completed this project for a folk studies class.

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Adams, William M. (Fa 832), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2015

Adams, William M. (Fa 832), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 832. This project is a collection of epitaphs from two large cemeteries located in Daviess, County, Kentucky. Both cemeteries date back to the early-1800s. This project was completed by William M. Adams a student at Western Kentucky University for credit in a folk studies class.

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Gordon, Charles (Fa 834), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2015

Gordon, Charles (Fa 834), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 834. The collection of epitaphs was taken from three cemeteries located in Glasgow, Kentucky. Some epitaph examples included were biblical, children, and rhyming. This project was completed by Charles Gordon, a student at Western Kentucky University, for credit in a folk studies class.

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Gordon, Charles (Fa 834), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2015

Gordon, Charles (Fa 834), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 834. This collection of epitaphs was taken from three cemeteries located in Glasgow, Kentucky. Some epitaph examples included contain references to the Bible, children, and were often rhyming. This project was completed by Charles Gordon, a student at Western Kentucky University, for credit in a folk studies class.

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Bellar, Joyce (Fa 829), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2015

Bellar, Joyce (Fa 829), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 829. The project “Epitaphs in Barren River,” discusses a collection of epitaphs from cemeteries located in the Barren River area. Joyce Bellar a student at Western Kentucky University completed this project for a folk studies class.

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Warren, Richard (Fa 825), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2015

Warren, Richard (Fa 825), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 825. This collection includes stories and history hidden in the construction and development of the local highways in Taylor County, Kentucky. Toll roads are also discussed. This project was completed by Richard Warren for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

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Lee, James C. (Fa 827), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2015

Lee, James C. (Fa 827), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 827. This project is a brief life history of Iva Ferguson an African American woman, a native of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Born in 1900, Ferguson’s life story is shared as she wrote it. This information was collected by James C. Lee, a student at Western Kentucky University for his folk studies class project.

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Want A Job? Get A College Degree, Christopher R. Bollinger Oct 2015

Want A Job? Get A College Degree, Christopher R. Bollinger

Issue Brief on Topics Affecting Kentucky’s Economy

While it is well known that a positive relationship exists between educational attainment and earnings for those who are in the labor market, an important part of how education impacts the well-being of families in Kentucky is the access to employment that it provides. In this brief, we examine the relationship between education and two measures of employment status: unemployment and labor force participation. What we find is quite striking: not only do those with higher education experience less unemployment, they are far more likely to be participating in the labor market. Education leads to better access to employment.

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Education Pays Everywhere!, Christopher R. Bollinger Oct 2015

Education Pays Everywhere!, Christopher R. Bollinger

Issue Brief on Topics Affecting Kentucky’s Economy

Economists and other researchers have long demonstrated the relationship between education and earnings. In this brief, we focus on the relationship between educational attainment and earnings in the state of Kentucky. Our results, in many ways, are unsurprising, as the old ad campaign said, “Education Pays.” What may be surprising is that we demonstrate that education pays not only in the big cities of Lexington and Louisville, but also in the more rural parts of the state, such as eastern Kentucky and western Kentucky.

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Moving People Off Public Assistance Programs Through Education, Christopher R. Bollinger Oct 2015

Moving People Off Public Assistance Programs Through Education, Christopher R. Bollinger

Issue Brief on Topics Affecting Kentucky’s Economy

Two of the largest federal transfer programs are the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Federal expenditures on SNAP exceeded $74 billion in 2014, and SSI exceeded $3 billion. While these programs provide families in distress with important support, ideally we desire that Kentucky families would not require this kind of assistance. In 2014, over 800,000 Kentuckians received SNAP assistance each month while over 190,000 received SSI. This brief examines the relationship between participation in these programs and educational attainment for Kentuckians. We find that education is highly related to participation and that those with higher …

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Crime And Punishment And Education, Christopher R. Bollinger, Bethany L. Paris Oct 2015

Crime And Punishment And Education, Christopher R. Bollinger, Bethany L. Paris

Issue Brief on Topics Affecting Kentucky’s Economy

Crime impacts the lives of Kentuckians in myriad ways. It has direct costs to victims and indirect costs through property values and business activity. Citizens and policymakers alike desire to reduce and limit crime. In this brief, we investigate the link between crime rates in Kentucky’s counties and the aggregate level of education. Perhaps surprisingly, higher education, and specifically the percent of the population with a Bachelor’s degree, is associated with lower crime. We find that increasing educational attainment in Kentucky to the U.S. levels could reduce the costs of crime by over $3 million annually.

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How To Raise State Revenue Without Raising Taxes, Christopher R. Bollinger Oct 2015

How To Raise State Revenue Without Raising Taxes, Christopher R. Bollinger

Issue Brief on Topics Affecting Kentucky’s Economy

A positive relationship exists between educational attainment and earnings, which has been well established in the literature through multiple studies. This, in turn, influences the revenues generated for the state of Kentucky through the personal income tax. We predict even the modest change of increasing Associate’s and Bachelor’s degree holders by 1% would increase revenue by $37 million. Kentucky loses between $300 million and $500 million in state tax revenues every year because our educational attainment is lower than the national average.

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Impact Of Education On Medicaid Eligibility, Christopher R. Bollinger Oct 2015

Impact Of Education On Medicaid Eligibility, Christopher R. Bollinger

Issue Brief on Topics Affecting Kentucky’s Economy

The individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) coupled with the Medicaid expansion in Kentucky makes reducing Medicaid eligibility rates of crucial importance. This brief examines the link between education and eligibility for Medicaid for the citizens of Kentucky. In general, the relationship is nearly mechanical in that higher education leads to higher incomes. Since income is the key determining factor of Medicaid eligibility, and because of the individual mandate eligibility is mostly equivalent to participation, our estimates show that higher education reduces the likelihood that an adult will be on Medicaid or have children and family members on …

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Education For Your Health!, Christopher R. Bollinger Oct 2015

Education For Your Health!, Christopher R. Bollinger

Issue Brief on Topics Affecting Kentucky’s Economy

The health of the people of Kentucky is of high concern for policymakers and citizens alike. Individuals want to live healthy, productive lives, while policymakers recognize that chronic illnesses cost the state in myriad ways. In this brief, we examine the link between educational attainment and health outcomes. We focus on two groups of health outcomes. The first are behavioral and include choices: tobacco use, alcohol use, obesity, and exercise. The second group are outcomes highly associated with these behaviors: heart attack, angina, stroke, and diabetes. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that these four diseases may cost Kentuckians …

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The Effects Of Education Across The Kentucky Economy, Christopher R. Bollinger Oct 2015

The Effects Of Education Across The Kentucky Economy, Christopher R. Bollinger

Issue Brief on Topics Affecting Kentucky’s Economy

The Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER) (Gatton College, University of Kentucky) was commissioned by Kentucky’s Council for Postsecondary Education to examine the implications of education across the Kentucky economy. This study used data on Kentuckians from the American Community Survey (ACS), the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The focus on Kentucky is unique, as most studies of this kind have used only national data. The results have allowed us to examine how education is related to important outcomes related …

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Agriculture Of The Middle Participation In State Branding Campaigns: The Case Of Kentucky, Alicia M. Hullinger, Keiko Tanaka Oct 2015

Agriculture Of The Middle Participation In State Branding Campaigns: The Case Of Kentucky, Alicia M. Hullinger, Keiko Tanaka

Community & Leadership Development Faculty Publications

In the past decade, statewide agricultural branding campaigns have blossomed. Examining the case of the Kentucky Proud™ (KyP) program, this paper investigates the potential benefit of a state-level marketing strategy for the declining class of midsize farms, referred to as Agriculture of the Middle (AOTM). First, we discuss why AOTM farms are important to maintaining a viable agriculture structure. Second, we introduce the context of state branding and explain how KyP developed as part of the transition from highly tobacco-dependent agriculture. Using recent agricultural census data and a survey of KyP members, we compare the key characteristics between three sets …

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Rogers, Vicki Brown (Fa 823), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2015

Rogers, Vicki Brown (Fa 823), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 823. This collection “Stagecoach Days: Stageline between Columbia and Campbellsville, K[entuck]y,” decribes the days when motor transportation was not an option. This project was put together by Vicki Brown Rogers for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

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Spurling, Teresa (Fa 822), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2015

Spurling, Teresa (Fa 822), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 822. This collection “The Railroad and the Growth of the Spurlington Community” focuses on the small hamlet, located in Taylor County, Kentucky, and the importance of the railroad to its development. The information was gathered by Western Kentucky University student Teresa Spurling for credit in a folk studies class.

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