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Interview With Guy Huffaker (Fa 23), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Guy Huffaker conducted by Thomas Cleveland Arnold, Tracy Leigh Brittain and David N. Heighway on 20 March 1984. From folk studies student project with interviews of residents of Wayne County, Kentucky about the oil industry, folk medicine, water witching, one room schools, and banjo playing.

Interview With Clark "Doc" Stonewall (Fa 23), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Clark "Doc" Stonewall conducted by Michael David Boggs and Kathy Marie Kerr on 19 March 1984. From folk studies student project with interviews of residents of Wayne County, Kentucky about the oil industry, folk medicine, water witching, one room schools, and banjo playing.

Interview With Barnett Abbott (Fa 23), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Barnett Abbott conducted by Thomas Cleveland Arnold, Tracy Leigh Brittain and David N. Heighway on 19 March 1984. From folk studies student project with interviews of residents of Wayne County, Kentucky about the oil industry, folk medicine, water witching, one room schools, and banjo playing.

Interview With Dwight, Bill And Geneva Spradlin (Fa 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives 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.

Marlow, Mark Howard (Fa 118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 118. "Folk remedies and cures." Collection of folk cures and beliefs pertaining to infants and pregnant women, as well as the opinions of a pediatrician towards these practices.

Ua11/1 On Campus, Wku Public Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. This issue includes articles:

• WKU Education Dean Does National Teacher Assessment Report – J.T. Sandefur
• Service Aimed for Students Apt to Have Study Woes – Automated Peer Tutoring Service
• Stay Tuned for the Winter Olympics
• Former Weatherman Coaches TV Forecasters – Willard Cockrill
• Small Businesses Get Micro-Seminar from WKU – Business Administration
• Chemistry Department Receives Funds for More Coal Research
• Air Force ROTC is Born Again on Campus
• Who Was Really Abe Lincoln’s Valentine?
• About You – Connie Foster, Juanita Hare, Virginia Mutchler, Aaron Hughey, Owen …

Ua12/2/1 Magazine, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special edition of the College Heights Herald, featuring articles:

• Paul, Steve. KELI: Making English as Easy as ABC – Kentucky English Language Institute
• Newton, Jonathan. Power & Pride Aboard a Navy Frigate – John A. Moore FFG-19
• Collins, Michael. Date Abuse

Ua11/1 On Campus, Wku Public Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. This issue includes articles:

• New Study Supports WKU’s Fee Policy
• Dr. Donald Zacharias Will Travel to Thailand This Summer
• To Celebrate Shakespeare
• Rudolph Prins Does Streams Study in Chile
• Art Faculty Exhibit Works
• WKU is Represented at Celebration for Da Vinci’s Art in Italy – Patricia Trutty-Coohill
• Summer Study in Britain is Announced – Study Abroad
• About You – Emery Alford, Charles Anderson, Rita Hessley, Marvin Leavy, Jim Miller, Richard Salisbury, Barbara Strande, Robert Ward, Catherine Ward, Mike Weaver, Duane Andrews, Fuad Baali, Louis Beck, Jerry …

Ua12/2/11 Lion Liaison, Alpha Delta Pi

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by and about Alpha Delta Pi sorority for 1984.

Ua12/2/10 Delta Gamma Newsletter, Kappa Delta

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by and about Kappa Delta sorority in 1984.

Ua94/6/1 Scrapbook, Bryant Medley

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Scrapbook created by Bryant Medley during his freshman year at WKU. Includes event invitations and broadsides, awards, newspaper clippings regarding social life at WKU in 1983-1984.

Interview With Bill Thompson (Fa 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Bill Thompson conducted by Scott Minor Belcher in 1984. From folk studies student project concerning Thompson reminiscences about his youth in Breckinridge County, Kentucky.

Piney Grove Cemetery, Rockcastle County, Kentucky, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

PDF image of the Piney Grove Cemetery located on U. S. Route 150 in Brodhead, Rockcastle County, KY. The map shows gravesites with names and locations.

The Dynamics Of Animal Distribution: An Evolutionary/Ecological Model, Charles H. Smith

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Investigators have sometimes assumed that the factors underlying animal distribution are too complex to lend themselves to normative modelling. In this work, a model of environment and community interaction is constructed which lends itself to the latter kind of interpretation. It is posed that spatially-varying rates and magnitudes of availability of moisture at given locations act as stresses on the nature of community infrastructure, and secondarily on the rates at which new populations may become integrated into these. Populations are thereby viewed as tending to change range in common directions, though at overall rates remaining peculiar to each. This interpretation …

Interview With Odis Blanton (Fa 369), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Odis Blanton conducted by Dennis Paul Angle on 7 December 1983. From folk studies student project concerning Blanton’s life as a country music musician in Warren County, Kentucky.

The Loving Of The Game: A Study Of Basketry In The Mammoth Cave Area, Denis O. Kiely

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The production and marketing of baskets in the Mammoth Cave area of Kentucky from 1880 to the present is observed in light of the cultural, technical, aesthetic, ad traditional aspects involved. The process of making a white oak ribbed basket is documented, as well as the technical and aesthetic variables from which the basket maker renders his product. The changing role of social organization and communication in the production and marketing of a traditional craft objects is also considered.

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 …

Arnold, Thomas Cleveland, Jr., B. 1957 (Fa 102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 102. Project and paper entitled "Miss Mattie Makes Music." Paper and interviews, November 8 & 22, 1983, with black guitarists Mattie (Thomas) Crumbold Baldry, b.1895, of Adairville, Kentucky in Logan County. Includes information on her band, employment and family life.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 59, No. 26, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Collins, Michael. Former Student Hurt in Grenada – William Eskridge
• Newton, Tommy. Campus Wept with Nation – John F. Kennedy Assassination
• Norton, Wilma. One Professor Remembers – Francis Thompson
• Carlton, Chad & Karen Whitaker. Movie Draws Student Attention –The Day After
• Professor Killed in Wreck – Norman Ehresman
• Whitaker, Karen. Academic Council Approves Class Changes
• Whitaker, Karen. Reporter Faces Weighty Problem – Diet
• Bloss, Lou. Gordon Liddy Shows Limits of Man’s Willpower
• Felty, Jeff. Responds to Letter, Defends Jack Smith
• Elder, Greg. Criticizes Herald Coverage, …

Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, November, Wku Alumni Association

WKU Administration Documents

WKU alumni magazine. Features the following articles:

• Hensley, Fred. From the Editor: Basketball
• Conway, Sheila. New Agriculture Head Sees Challenges Ahead – Luther Hughes
• Wallace, Todd. Spirit Masters Sell Western
• Cefalo. Bob. Clem Haskins Cooking Up a Winner - Basketball
• Raque, Sally. Lady Tops Point to Sun Belt Title – Basketball
• Alumni News & Notes
• In Memoriam
• WKU Has 24 National Merit Scholars in Freshman Class
• Board of Regents Has Two New Members
• When Parents Care, Children Achieve, Study Says – Curtis Englebright
• Who Really Runs the Show? – Paul Wozniak, Jerry Cardwell
• Randy Deere Added to Hilltopper Training Staff …

Interview With Bonnie G. (Cole) Willis (Fa 17), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Bonnie G. (Cole) Willis conducted by J. Sharli Powell on 20 October 1983. From folk studies student project with second interview of Bonnie Willis about quilting.

Interview With George Morris Carter (Fa 2), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives 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.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 59, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Meehan, Mary. Panel Halts Off-Campus Housing for Greeks
• Dezern, Craig. John Y. Brown Says Education Needs to be Studied
• Collins, Michael. Woodworking Challenges Teacher – Jerry Lyons
• Morton, Jamie. Parking Lot to Be Finished in Three to Five Weeks
• Greek Row Should be Plowed Under
• Bloss, Lou. Editorial Cartoon – Greek Row
• Whitaker, Karen. Writer Turns Into Nocturnal Creature at Desk
• Whitaker, Karen. Teachers’ Group Studies Shakers
• Newton, Jonathon. Lecture Series to Focus on Looking for Jobs
• Edelen, Mark. Car Registration to be Done by …

Interview With Grace (Meador) Galloway (Fa 14), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Grace (Meador) Galloway conducted by Alison Anne Geiger on 3 October 1983. From project with interviews of Grace Galloway about her quilting. Includes step-by-step instructions demonstrating the construction of a cathedral window block quilt. Grace also discusses her life and raising her family on a farm in Warren County, Kentucky.

Ua12/2/84 Zeta Mu Review, Sigma Chi

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by and about Sigma Chi fraternity.

Ua12/2/76 Epsilon Kappa, Alpha Xi Delta

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by and about Alpha Xi Delta sorority in 1983.

Ua12/2/14 The Epsilon Xi Times, Delta Tau Delta

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by and about Delta Tau Delta fraternity in 1983.

Interview With Esther Magers Isbell (Fa 13), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Esther (Magers) Isbell conducted by Teresa Dolores Klimowicz on 27 September 1983. From project focusing on Esther Isbell, a folk artist and native of Barren County, Kentucky, with special attention on her biblical themed quilts. Isbell also discusses her various occupations and participation in community affairs.

Interview With Zeleme (Brashear) Cottrell (Fa 15), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Estella Zeleme (Brashear) Cottrell conducted by Ann Celine Taft on 23 September 1983. From a project with Zeleme Cottrell discussing her weaving, the weaving process in depth, and how it has affected her life.

Interview With Bonnie G. (Cole) Willis (Fa 17), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Bonnie G. (Cole) Willis conducted by J. Sharli Powell on 22 September 1983. From folk studies student project with interview of Bonnie Willis about quilting.