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Carroll, Julianne (Fa 615), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carroll, Julianne (Fa 615), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 615. This collection includes interviews and information about six Bosnians who immigrated to Bowling Green, Kentucky. Only four interviews were actually recorded.
New Matriarchs: Louisville, Kentucky (Fa 768), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
New Matriarchs: Louisville, Kentucky (Fa 768), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and representative photographs for Folklife Archives Project 768. The collection details the lives of seven women from around the globe (India, Syria, Mexico, Uganda, Russia, Argentina, and Somalia),all recent immigrants to Louisville, Kentucky.
Risner, Randall (Fa 755), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Risner, Randall (Fa 755), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 755. Audio CD and transcript of interview with James Edward “Jimmy” Allen, Salyersville, Kentucky, by Randall Risner. Allen discusses his childhood, education, family life and activities as a lifetime resident of Magoffin County, Kentucky.
Artists In Residence - Union County (Fa 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Artists In Residence - Union County (Fa 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 612. Project conducted in Union County, Kentucky to identify and utilize local folk artists in county elementary schools. Folklorist Amy Davis and fieldworker/folk artist Sue Massek interviewed local folk artists and performers. Afterwards they made presentations in schools about the information they collected and invited some of the artists to perform and/or demonstrate.
Artists In Residence - Boyd County (Fa 611), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Artists In Residence - Boyd County (Fa 611), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 611. Project conducted in Boyd County, Kentucky to identify and utilize local folk artists in a county elementary school. Project coordinator Julia Morgan interviewed local folk artists and performers. Afterwards she made presentations in schools about the information she collected and invited some of the artists to perform and/or demonstrate.
Artists In Residence - Bourbon County (Fa 610), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Artists In Residence - Bourbon County (Fa 610), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 610. Project conducted in Bourbon County, Kentucky to identify and utilize local folk artists in a county elementary school. Project coordinator Sue Massek conducted interviews with local folk artists and performers. She then presented information about them at the school and asked some of the folk artists and performers to perform or demonstrate.
Folklorist In The Parks (Fa 608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklorist In The Parks (Fa 608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 608. Project conducted in communities surrounding Jenny Wiley, Kenlake, Natural Bridge, Pennyrile Forest and Pine Mountain State Resort Parks to identify and utilize local folk artists and performers. Materials include administrative papers and slides.
Folklorist In The Parks - Pine Mountain State Resort Park (Fa 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklorist In The Parks - Pine Mountain State Resort Park (Fa 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archves Project 607. Project conducted in Bell County, Kentuky and Pine Mountain State Resort Park to identify and utilize local folk artists and performers. Materials include field notes, a daily activity log, and audio interviews on cassette tapes with traditional artists.
Folklorist In The Parks - Natural Bridge State Resort Park (Fa 605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklorist In The Parks - Natural Bridge State Resort Park (Fa 605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 605. Project conducted in Powell, Wolfe and Lee Counties and Natural Bridge State Resort Park to identify and utilize local folk artists and performers. Materials include fieldnotes, promotional materials, and audio interviews on cassette tapes with traditional artists.
Folklorist In The Parks - Kenlake State Resort Park (Fa 604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklorist In The Parks - Kenlake State Resort Park (Fa 604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid for Folklife Archives Project 604. Project conducted in Marshall County and Kenlake State Resort Park to identify and utilize local folk artists and performers. Materials include a project summary, programming information, biographical sketches, a directory of folk artists/performers, public relations materials, audio interviews on cassette tapes with traditional artists, as well as illustrative material. The interview with Glen Gough (Box 2 Folder 12) can be accessed by clicking on the "Additional File" below.
Warren County Kentucky Homemakers Project (Fa 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County Kentucky Homemakers Project (Fa 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 82. These interviews examine the lives of rural women through their membership in the Warren County Homemakers Extension Program. Former extension agents and members recall their experiences in the organization and the significance of the education programs in preparing them to adapt to new technologies and to move from farm life to public work.
Folklorist In The Parks - Jenny Wiley State Resort Park (Fa 603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklorist In The Parks - Jenny Wiley State Resort Park (Fa 603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 603. Materials documenting "Folklorist in the Parks,” a project conducted In Floyd, Johnson and Pike counties and Jenny Wiley State Resort Park to identify and utilize local folk artists and performers. Materials include informant data sheets, field notes, audio interviews, photograph negatives and slides with indices and administrative papers.
Ravelings (Fa 752), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ravelings (Fa 752), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 752. Clippings of "Ravelings" column from "Harland (Kentucky) Daily Enterprise" and "Corbin (Kentucky) Daily Tribune" with collected mountain superstitions, customs, and folkways.
Folk Arts In Rural Libraries Project (Fa 602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folk Arts In Rural Libraries Project (Fa 602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 602. Materials documenting the Folk Arts in Rural Libraries Project conducted in the central Kentucky. Materials include lists of folk artists, slides documenting folk art festivals, slide inventories and administrative papers.
Brown, Mark, B. 1976 (Fa 751), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown, Mark, B. 1976 (Fa 751), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and photograph for Folklife Archives Project 751. Interview conducted by Mark Brown with luthier Steve Cooley, Louisville, Kentucky. Cooley discusses how he makes and repairs guitars and banjos at the Guitar Emporium in Louisville. He also relates information about playing with Bill Monroe and other musicians in Kentucky.
Williams, Donna (Fa 595), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Williams, Donna (Fa 595), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 595. Paper titled “Turning Legend to Song,” written by Donna Williams for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. The paper analyzes the propensity of songwriters to rely upon tales and legends for inspiration in the composition of songs. Williams focuses on Boone County, Kentucky’s legend of Skull Bone Cave.