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Ferguson, Lynne Marrs (Hammer), B. 1956 (Fa 570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ferguson, Lynne Marrs (Hammer), B. 1956 (Fa 570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 570. Paper: [Examination of a Speech Titled "Shake Rag Revisited"] written by Lynne Marrs Hammer Ferguson for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class. The speech was delivered on 21 October 2004 by Herbert Oldham at the dedication of a historical marker in the neighborhood.
Delineator Club (Mss 369), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Delineator Club (Mss 369), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 369. Records of the Delineator Club, a Bowling Green, Kentucky literary club for women. Includes constitution, bylaws, minutes, financial records, yearbooks, photographs, correspondence, and summary historical notes prepared for the club's 25th anniversary.
Young Men's Christian Association - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Young Men's Christian Association - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 371. Constitution and by-laws, histories, subscriber list, news clippings, photos, and sundry printed promotional pieces used in the campaign to erect a Y.M.C.A. building in Bowling Green, Kentucky. This material was found in a tin box in the cornerstone of the building when it was razed in 1985.
Rotary Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 350), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rotary Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 350), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 350. Items related to the Rotary Club of Bowling Green, Kentucky, as well as Rotary International. The minutes, correspondence, newsletters, resolutions, reports, clippings, and photographs highlight the organization's many years of service projects and civic involvement.
Fighting For Fairness: The History Of Kentucky’S Local Movements To Enact Fairness Ordinances In 1999, Micah Bennett
Fighting For Fairness: The History Of Kentucky’S Local Movements To Enact Fairness Ordinances In 1999, Micah Bennett
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
This CE/T project explores the histories of the local movements for fairness ordinances which transpired in Kentucky in the year 1999. Fairness ordinances expand local civil rights protections on the basis of ‘sexual orientation’ and sometimes ‘gender identity’ to include lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) peoples and usually protect in the areas of employment, housing, and public accommodations. Four communities in the state considered such laws in 1999: Greater Louisville, Lexington-Fayette, the City of Henderson, and the City of Bowling Green. This thesis takes a holistic approach towards the history of these movements, exploring the procession of chronological events, …
Severance Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 360), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Severance Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 360), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 360. Minutes and yearbooks of the Severance Club, a women's literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Threlkeld, Matthew Kohl, B. 1985 (Fa 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Threlkeld, Matthew Kohl, B. 1985 (Fa 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text paper (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 552. Ethnography project focused on Prince’s Hookah Lounge in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The cultural and social aspects of a hookah lounge are explored, with particular focus on its importance to Saudi Arabian students at Western Kentucky University. Project was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.