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Western Kentucky University

2012

Folklore

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Harbison, Robert Glen (Fa 160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Harbison, Robert Glen (Fa 160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 160. This collection contains a paper entitled “The Strange Little Stone House: The History Of The Underwood Home – 1529 State Street,” written by Robert Harbison as a part of a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University in the fall of 1992. Also included is a Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory sheet detailing the Underwood Home.


Albrecht, Dana Lynn (Fa 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Albrecht, Dana Lynn (Fa 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 86. [Ghosts: Fact or Fiction?] Typescripts and cassette tapes that document ghost stories with a specific focus on ghost stories of Western Kentucky University. Collection contains four cassettes of interviews, tape indexes, informant/fieldworker data forms and news clippings. Collection was created for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.


Supernatural Experiences (Fa 74), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Supernatural Experiences (Fa 74), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scans of two out of thirteen papers (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 74. [Supernatural Experiences] Project completed by Western Kentucky University students for a folk studies class taught by Lynwood Montell. Collection focuses on short supernatural events experienced by informants. Subjects include dreams, ghosts, Ouija boards, sleepovers, church experiences and others.


Mitchell, Eleonore Beck (Fa 70), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Mitchell, Eleonore Beck (Fa 70), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 70. “History of ROTC.” Collection contains interviews, field notes indexes and cassettes of project completed with Frank Allen Minner by Eleonore Beck Mitchell. Collection was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Interview covers topics such as the history of ROTC, the ROTC program at Western Kentucky University, recruitment, and differences in training between ROTC and military academies.