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Full-Text Articles in Folklore
Smaxwell, Mike (Fa 935), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smaxwell, Mike (Fa 935), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 935. Project titled: “Field Collections of Epitaphs.” Includes introduction of gravestone epitaphs collected in the Pennyroyal Region of Kentucky and Ohio.
Pride, Mark (Fa 936), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pride, Mark (Fa 936), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 936. Project titled: “Field Collections of Epitaphs.” Project includes introduction of gravestone epitaphs collected in the Pennyroyal Region of Kentucky.
Ashley, Odell (Fa 939), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ashley, Odell (Fa 939), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 939. Project titled: “Introduction to Epitaphs.” Includes introduction of gravestone epitaphs collected in Edmonson County, Kentucky.
Phillips, Cynthia (Fa 940), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Phillips, Cynthia (Fa 940), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folkllife Archives Project 940. Project titled: “Collection Project of Gravestone Art.” Includes introduction and illustrations of gravestone art and designs collected in Butler, Edmonson Marshall, and Warren counties in Kentucky.
Reynolds, Freddy (Fa 932), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reynolds, Freddy (Fa 932), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 932. Student folk studies project titled: “Epitaphs,” which includes gravestone epitaphs collected from cemeteries in Hart County, Kentucky.
Hines, Larry (Fa 938), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, Larry (Fa 938), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 938. Project titled: “Introduction to Epitaphs.” Includes introduction of gravestone epitaphs collected in Ohio County, Kentucky.
Oldham, Barbara (Fa 924), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Oldham, Barbara (Fa 924), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 924. Paper titled: “Negro Folklore.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of African American beliefs and superstitions in Ohio County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and motif index number.
Taylor, Stephen (Fa 927), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor, Stephen (Fa 927), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 927. Paper titled: “A Collection of Gravestone Art in Western Kentucky.” Includes introduction of gravestone art and designs in western Kentucky.
Knott, Leslie (Fa 929), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Knott, Leslie (Fa 929), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
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.
Waggener, David (Fa 931), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Waggener, David (Fa 931), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 931. Project titled: “Epitaphs.” Includes introduction of gravestone epitaphs and a list of cemeteries in McLean County and Ohio County, Kentucky.
Keal, Ronnie (Fa 928), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Keal, Ronnie (Fa 928), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 928. Paper titled: “The Study of Gravestone Epitaphs.” Project includes introduction of gravestone epitaphs and cemeteries in Hardin County and Meade County, Kentucky.
Johnson, Danny (Fa 911), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Johnson, Danny (Fa 911), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 911. Project titled: “Ghost Stories.” Project includes survey sheets with descriptions of ghost stories from Illinois, Kentucky and Michigan. Sheets include a description of the ghost story and informant’s name.
Kerce, Rosann (Fa 909), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kerce, Rosann (Fa 909), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 909. Project titled: “Popular Beliefs of Today.” Project includes note cards with brief descriptions of beliefs in Logan, Mercer and Oldham Counties in Kentucky. Note cards include a brief description of belief, informant’s name, and the motif index number.
Degen, Barbara (Fa 908), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Degen, Barbara (Fa 908), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
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.
Deshazer, Mary Kirk (Fa 876), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Deshazer, Mary Kirk (Fa 876), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 876. Paper titled: “Ghost Stories From Logan County.” Project includes survey sheets with ghost and horror tales from Logan County, Kentucky, mainly the Russellville Girl story. Sheets include a description of tale and informant’s name.
Duke, Yvonne E. (Fa 875), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Duke, Yvonne E. (Fa 875), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 875. Paper titled: “Death Narratives: Return From Dead.” Project includes survey sheets of death narratives. Sheets include a brief description of experience and informant’s name.
Funerary Customs In Harlan County, Kentucky (Fa 677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Funerary Customs In Harlan County, Kentucky (Fa 677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives project 677. This collection features documentation related to the study of funerary customs in Harlan County, Kentucky. The project was conducted by faculty and students at Southeast Community and Technical College in Cumberland, Kentucky.
Feather Crowns (Sc 1115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Feather Crowns (Sc 1115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1115. Correspondence concerning inquiry of Tom Russell, Dallas, Texas, with Western Kentucky University personnel, Bowling Green, Kentucky, about feather crowns. Includes family story regarding the formation of the crowns in a goose down pillow after an individual’s death.
Spradlin, James Edward (Fa 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Spradlin, James Edward (Fa 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 51. Oral history interview with Dwight, Virginia, Bill and Geneva Spradlin conducted by James Spradlin for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University in 1984. Topics include recreation and entertainment in Floyd County, Kentucky during the 1930’s and 1940’s.
Dowell, John Alan (Fa 2), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dowell, John Alan (Fa 2), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 2. Interviews conducted by John Alan Dowell with George M. Carter which provide bigraphical data about Carter and highlight his storytelling talent. Includes interviews with Carter on cassette tapes, transcriptions, tape summaries, glossary, bibliography and photographs.
Death Comes Alive; Technology And The Re‐Conception Of Death, Karen Cerulo, Janet M. Ruane
Death Comes Alive; Technology And The Re‐Conception Of Death, Karen Cerulo, Janet M. Ruane
Department of Sociology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Browse through your local bookstore, or glance at a nearby movie marquee. Skim the pages of your nightly newspaper or the listings in your television guide. American culture's current focus poses a surprise. The popular eye is centered on a topic more taboo than the steamiest sexual encounter, more solemn than the deepest economic depression, and more universal than the common cold. The current decade reveals a remarkable up- surge in our collective attention toward death. Indeed in the 1990s, Americans have become nearly obsessed with a world that lurks beyond life as we know it.
Wood, Rhonda (Fa 328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wood, Rhonda (Fa 328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of comilation (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 328. Compilation: "Tales of Tales of Tales" by the eighth grade class, Hughes-Kirk High School in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, under the direction of Rhonda Wood.
Interview With Otis & Essie Stevens Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Otis & Essie Stevens Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an interview with Essie (Crawford) Stevens and Otis Stevens conducted by Charlotte Postlewaite for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." The Stevens discuss their life and times, including information about growing up in Ohio County, Kentucky, education, one-room schools, farms and farming, teaching in a one-room school, food preservation and preparation, laundering, death, telephones and radios.
Interview With Dwight, Bill And Geneva Spradlin (Fa 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Dwight, Bill And Geneva Spradlin (Fa 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Dwight Spradlin, Bill Spradlin, and Gene Spradlin conducted by James Edward Spradlin on 5 March 1984. From folk studies student project concerning experiences of Dwight, Bill and Virginia Spradlin with recreation and entertainment in Floyd County, Kentucky during the 1930s and 1940s.
Expressions Of Grief In South Central Kentucky, 1870-1910, Sue Lynn Arnold
Expressions Of Grief In South Central Kentucky, 1870-1910, Sue Lynn Arnold
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Through the ages, survivors have experienced loss due to the deaths of their contemporaries. Between 1870 and 1910, the people of south central Kentucky (Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Logan, Monroe, Simpson and Warren counties) used significant expressions of grief. Combining oral history with primary correspondence, journals, scrapbooks and mementos, this study determines the importance that area residents placed on deathbed accounts, the care given the deceased's body, the funeral service, obituaries, resolutions of respect, memorial poetry, condolence letters, photography, memorial cards and pictures, hair wreaths, mourning attire and jewelry, the gravesite, and the tombstone. In almost every instance, south central …
Interview With George Morris Carter (Fa 2), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With George Morris Carter (Fa 2), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with George Morris Carter conducted by John Alan Dowell on October 13, 1983. From project titled “George Morris Carter,” which discusses his life and exhibits his storytelling ability. The audio interviews are archived in the Sound Archives.
Brannik, Mike (Fa 1361), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brannik, Mike (Fa 1361), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 1361. Student folk studies project titled “Ghost Stories” which includes survey sheets about traditional ghost stories in Barren County, Jefferson County, and Logan County, Kentucky. Sheets may include brief description of ghost story or tale, informant’s name and address, along with text classification.
Linde, Janet (Fa 1360), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Linde, Janet (Fa 1360), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 1360. Student folk studies project titled “Modern Ghost Tales Or Scary Stories” which includes survey sheets about traditional ghost stories in Florida and Cumberland County, Jefferson County and Union County, Kentucky. Sheets may include brief description of ghost story or tale, informant’s name, address and birth month and year, along with text classification.
Folklore Term Report: Folk Lore Concerning Christmas Customs, May 29, 1950, Robert J. Fehr
Folklore Term Report: Folk Lore Concerning Christmas Customs, May 29, 1950, Robert J. Fehr
Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents
A handwritten term paper entitled, "Folk-Lore Concerning Christmas Customs", completed at Franklin and Marshall College by Robert Fehr, dated May 29, 1950. Within, Fehr details the information he gathered from Pennsylvania Dutch residents in Northampton County, including details of "Belsnickel" and superstitions pertaining to the Christmas season.
More Alte Weiver Glawe, H. Wayne Gruber
More Alte Weiver Glawe, H. Wayne Gruber
Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents
A typed set of Pennsylvania German folk beliefs ("old women's beliefs" or "old wives' tales") by H. Wayne Gruber, dating from circa 1948. Included are cures for whooping cough and superstitions about fishing and death.