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Conaster, Victoria (Fa 377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2018

Conaster, Victoria (Fa 377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 377. Interview with Joe H. Page conducted by Victoria Conaster on 3 April 1993. Page, a resident of Lewisburg, discusses his childhood memories of growing up on a tenant farm. Topics covered include tobacco harvests and sales, pest control, traditional farm lore, home remedies and religious life.


Browning, Jimmy D. (Fa 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Browning, Jimmy D. (Fa 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 157. This collection includes cassette tapes of interviews with eight women used as research for Jimmy D. Browning’s paper “A Tie That Binds: Contemporary Funeral Foodways In A Rural, Central Kentucky Community.” Two copies of the paper are also included in the collection.


Silva, Ann (Fa 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Silva, Ann (Fa 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 53. “A History of the Logan County Tobacco Festival” Paper written about an annual festival celebrating tobacco culture held in Russellville, Kentucky. Paper was written for a history class at Western Kentucky University.


Glynn, Luanne Carol (Aylesworth), B. 1951 (Fa 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Glynn, Luanne Carol (Aylesworth), B. 1951 (Fa 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 11. Interviews conducted by Luanne Carol (Aylesworth) Glynn with Marvel (Welborn) Mohon, Lewisburg, Kentucky concerning Thanksgiving customs, with much attention paid to Marvel’s life, especially her family.


Beisswenger, Donald Andre (Fa 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2010

Beisswenger, Donald Andre (Fa 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1. Project titled "White Gospel Music in Logan County" conducted by Donald Andre Beisswenger for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes interviews with Jeff and Gwen McKinney and Chester Whitescarver about singing schools and white gospel music. Transcript of McKinney interview included as well as a tape summary for the Whitescarver interview.


Elrod, Scott & Kevin Ming (Fa 388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Elrod, Scott & Kevin Ming (Fa 388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of papers (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 388. Papers: "Bob Fleming: A Life History" written by Scott Elrod and "An Incomplete Life History of One Kentucky Sharecropper" written by Kevin Ming for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Eade, Richard M. (Fa 389), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Eade, Richard M. (Fa 389), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 389. Paper: "Hazel C. Gillum" written by Richard Eade for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Glynn, Luanne Carol Aylesworth (Fa 229), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2008

Glynn, Luanne Carol Aylesworth (Fa 229), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 229. Paper: "[Folk Medical Beliefs About Illness]" written by Luanne Carol Aylesworth Glynn for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.