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Full-Text Articles in Folklore
Adair, Mary And Dian Whitlock (Fa 882), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Adair, Mary And Dian Whitlock (Fa 882), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 882. Paper titled: “Architecture and Culture of Schochoh, Kentucky.” Project includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of various buildings along with a map of the area of Schochoh in Logan County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, the informant’s name, and a photo and/or illustration of the building.
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.
Costellow, Ann Tapp (Fa 873), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Costellow, Ann Tapp (Fa 873), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 873. Paper titled: “Quilt Patterns.” Project includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of various quilts. Sheets include a brief description including quilt pattern, informant’s name, and photo or
illustration of quilt.
Early, Linda (Fa 807), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Early, Linda (Fa 807), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding Aid only for Folklife Archives Project 807. This collection contains information about Breckinridge, Logan, and Simpson County, Kentucky, folklore collected by Western Kentucky University student Linda Early for credit in a folklore class. Information included in the collection includes such things as fiddle tunes, vernacular architecture, and agricultural information from the counties.
Morgan, Layton (Fa 803), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morgan, Layton (Fa 803), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text paper (click Additional Files below) for Folklife Archives Project 803. This collection features a term paper about supernatural stories relating to a cave on the author’s property in Logan County, Kentucky. The project was completed by Western Kentucky University student Layton Morgan for credit in an “Introduction to Folk Studies” class.
Quilts - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 2864), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Quilts - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 2864), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2864. Correspondence, promotional material and planning notes for a quilt registry in Logan County, Kentucky, sponsored by the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society and a subsequent exhibit at the Kentucky Museum, Western Kentucky University.
Thomason Political Folklore Collection (Fa 774), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomason Political Folklore Collection (Fa 774), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 774. The Thomason Political Folklore Collection includes projects conducted by students from a number of counties in the state of Kentucky and few from nearby states. The collection includes information pertaining to those counties political oral traditions. This project was conducted by students at Western Kentucky University for class credit.
Campbellsville College - Campbellsville, Kentucky - Vernacular Architecture Survey (Fa 771), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Campbellsville College - Campbellsville, Kentucky - Vernacular Architecture Survey (Fa 771), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 771. Survey sheets containing photographs and descriptive narratives about barns, cribs, and cabins chiefly in central and western Kentucky, although some examples were included from as far away as Connecticut.
Arnold, Andrew (Fa 592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Arnold, Andrew (Fa 592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 592. This paper, titled “Raising Tobacco”, was written by Andrew Arnold for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Arnold details the process of raising tobacco from selecting the proper location for the crop to delivering the final product to market. The paper is largely based upon Arnold’s personal interview with Lewisburg, Kentucky farmer, Thomas Nelson.
Browning, Jimmy D. (Fa 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Browning, Jimmy D. (Fa 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
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.
Pillar, Samantha R. (Fa 162), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pillar, Samantha R. (Fa 162), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 162. This collection contains a paper entitled “Going Hog Wild in Logan County,” about William Warren Morton Sr. and his work in the swine industry. This paper was written by Samantha Pillar as a part of a class at Western Kentucky University in the fall of 1994. Several photocopied images are included in the paper.
Silva, Ann (Fa 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Silva, Ann (Fa 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
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.
Hog Butchering (Fa 24), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hog Butchering (Fa 24), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 24. Statements and reminiscences of Kentucky residents who participated in or conducted hog butchering in Kentucky. Information was gathered from various informants between 1963-1969. Material is arranged alphabetically by collector, consisting of specific detials about executing hogs, processing and preserving meat, and rendering lard. Includes papers by collectors and photographs. This project was completed by students at Campbellsville College under the guidance of Lynwood Montell.
Glynn, Luanne Carol (Aylesworth), B. 1951 (Fa 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Glynn, Luanne Carol (Aylesworth), B. 1951 (Fa 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
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
Beisswenger, Donald Andre (Fa 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
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
Elrod, Scott & Kevin Ming (Fa 388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
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
Eade, Richard M. (Fa 389), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
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.
Draper, Shirley (Fa 386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Draper, Shirley (Fa 386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of papers (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 386. Two papers: "Brush Arbors of Southern Logan County: How and Why They Were Made" and "South Logan County, Kentucky: Life in the First Half of the Twentieth Century" written by Shirley Draper for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Glynn, Luanne Carol Aylesworth (Fa 229), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Glynn, Luanne Carol Aylesworth (Fa 229), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
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.
Interview With Regina Brooks (Fa 374), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Regina Brooks (Fa 374), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Regina Brooks conducted by Heather-Kristen Brooks on 3 May 1998. From folk studies student project “The Effects of High School Consolidation on the Students and Community of Lewisburg” concerning the centralization of five Logan County schools in 1983 and the issues of race, extracurricular activities, athletics, and behavioral norms.
Interview With Samantha Hamilton (Fa 374), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Samantha Hamilton (Fa 374), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Samantha Hamilton conducted by Heather-Kristen Brooks on 29 April 1998. From folk studies student project “The Effects of High School Consolidation on the Students and Community of Lewisburg” concerning the centralization of five Logan County schools in 1983 and the issues of race, extracurricular activities, athletics, and behavioral norms.
Interview With Bill Cowan (Fa 386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Bill Cowan (Fa 386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Bill Cowan conducted by Shirley Draper on 24 February 1998. From folk studies student project concerning bush arbor religious meetings in Logan County, Kentucky.
Interview With Robert Howard "Bob" Fleming (Fa 388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Robert Howard "Bob" Fleming (Fa 388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Robert Howard Fleming conducted by Kevin Ming on 11 April 1993. From folk studies student project concerning the lifeways of tenant farmers in Logan County, Kentucky.
Interview With Joseph H. Page (Fa 377 ), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Joseph H. Page (Fa 377 ), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Joseph H. Page conducted by Victoria Conaster on 3 April 1993. From folk studies student project concerning Page’s childhood memories of growing up on a tenant farm, tobacco harvests and sales, pest control, traditional farm lore, home remedies, and religious life.
Interview With Lennie Burgess Martin (Fa 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Lennie Burgess Martin (Fa 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Lennie Burgess Martin conducted by Shannon Dennin and Jason Henning on 3 April 1993. From folk studies student project concerning hunting and religion in Logan County, Kentucky.
Interview With Robert Howard "Bob" Fleming (Fa 388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Robert Howard "Bob" Fleming (Fa 388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Robert Howard Fleming conducted by Scott Elrod and Kevin Ming on 2 April 1993. From folk studies student project concerning the lifeways of tenant farmers in Logan County, Kentucky.
David, Lynn Coulter, B.1941 (Fa 93), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
David, Lynn Coulter, B.1941 (Fa 93), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 93. Interview with Oscar Rhea Wren, Logan County, Kentucky, conducted on April 19, 1991. The interview discusses Wren and Felts family genealogy, as well as political and social life in Logan County, Kentucky.
Horn, Sandra (Simunaci), B. 1946 (Fa 125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Horn, Sandra (Simunaci), B. 1946 (Fa 125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid, full-text scan of paper, and interview (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 125. Interview with psychic practitioner, Terry Langford of Bowling Green, Kentucky, discussing supernatural occurrences in the Kentucky Building at Western Kentucky University. Includes attachments.
Kelly, Jim (Fa 109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kelly, Jim (Fa 109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 109. Paper entitled "The Effects of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Logan County, Kentucky." Research paper discussing projects that WPA completed in Logan County, Kentucky.
Interview With Marvel Welborn Mohon (Fa 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Marvel Welborn Mohon (Fa 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Marvel Welborn Mohon conducted by Luanne Carol Aylesworth Glynn on 14 October 1984. From folk studies student project with interview of Marvel (Welborn) Mohon concerning Thanksgiving customs, Marvel's life, and family.