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2008

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Clayton, Chad (Fa 294), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Clayton, Chad (Fa 294), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 294. Paper: "The Use of Advertising and the Kentucky State Fair" written by Chad Clayton for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Boyd, George Robert, 1906-1993 (Sc 1759), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Boyd, George Robert, 1906-1993 (Sc 1759), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1759. Poetry by George Robert Boyd, a Simpson County, Kentucky native and educator; also, material related to the Boyd family.


Folk Medicine (Fa 306), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Folk Medicine (Fa 306), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 306. Collection of Kentucky and North Carolina folk beliefs concerning the healing properties of herbs and plants.


Ecology And Spirit: Reflections On The Cit Seminar, Richard M. Magee Oct 2008

Ecology And Spirit: Reflections On The Cit Seminar, Richard M. Magee

Presidential Seminar on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

Professor Magee entered the CIT seminar in May of 2007 with some ideas about spirit and nature in American literature, and now, over a year later, he has, in the best traditions of philosophical enquiry, even more questions about how this complex relationship works. These new questions, however, have led to a significantly deeper and richer understanding of the texts I read, study, and teach, enlarging my intellectual horizons and sharpening my inquiries. His enriched scholarship has taken a number of forms, and in this report, hel briefly presents three specific and important examples.


From Pulp Hero To Superhero: Culture, Race, And Identity In American Popular Culture, 1900-1940, Julian C. Chambliss, William L. Svitavsky Oct 2008

From Pulp Hero To Superhero: Culture, Race, And Identity In American Popular Culture, 1900-1940, Julian C. Chambliss, William L. Svitavsky

Faculty Publications

Adventure characters in the pulp magazines and comic books of the early twentieth century reflected development in the ongoing American fascination with heroic figures. As established figures such as the cowboy became disconnected from everyday experiences of Americans, new popular fantasies emerged, providing readers with essentialist action heroes whose adventures stylized the struggle of the American everyman with a modern, industrialized, heterogeneous world. Popular characters such as Tarzan, Conan, the Shadow, and Doc Savage perpetuated the individualistic archetype Americans associated with the frontier cowboy and the struggles of manifest destiny while offering the fantastic adventure, exoticism, and escapism that modernity …


Hanor, Elizabeth Jane, 1850-1927 (Sc 38), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Hanor, Elizabeth Jane, 1850-1927 (Sc 38), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 38. Loom weaving draft, "Nine Snowball Draft," made by E. Jane Hanor, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Coverlet draft.


Cooper, Laura (Fa 314), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Cooper, Laura (Fa 314), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 314. Paper: "Cowboys and Songs" written by Laura Cooper for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Epley, Ronnie Keith (Fa 275), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Epley, Ronnie Keith (Fa 275), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 275. Paper: "Folk Musician Project" written by Ronnie Keith Epley for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Peterson, Denise K. (Fa 277), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Peterson, Denise K. (Fa 277), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 277. Paper: "Bob and Marty York" written by Denise K. Peterson for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Games (Fa 313), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Games (Fa 313), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of collection (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 313. Collection of brief descriptions of Kentucky games, rhymes, beliefs, and superstitions.


Angle, Dennis Paul (Fa 265), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Angle, Dennis Paul (Fa 265), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 265. Paper: "American Folk Music" written by Dennis Paul Angle for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Grizzly Gidget Goes To The White House?, Marleen S. Barr Sep 2008

Grizzly Gidget Goes To The White House?, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is an article about Sarah Palin.


Glynn, Luanne Carol Aylesworth (Fa 303), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Glynn, Luanne Carol Aylesworth (Fa 303), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 303. Paper: "[Todd County, Kentucky Public Health Department]" written by Luanne Glynn for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Lee, Andrew (Fa 321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Lee, Andrew (Fa 321), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 321. Paper: "Supernatural Beings in the Daily News" written by Andrew Lee for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Amaro, Maria E. (Fa 302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Amaro, Maria E. (Fa 302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 302. Paper: "Valentine Day: A Piece of American Fakelore" written by Maria Amaro for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Heighway, David (Fa 322), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Heighway, David (Fa 322), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 322. Paper: "Medicine and the Catholic Church" written by David Heighway for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Carden, Vickie Wright (Fa 318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Carden, Vickie Wright (Fa 318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 318. Paper titled “The Jelly Snatcher” in which folk studies student Vickie Wright Carden details the paranormal activity surrounding Nancy Frew, a 23 year-old Bowling Green native, and her roommate, Vicki Taylor. Both women reported sensing malevolent spirits in their apartment, witnessed a comb fly off a dresser, and “lost” a jar of grape jelly—which they believe to have been “snatched” by the ghost. Carden offers possible theories relating to the poltergeist encounters, and even posits that Frew, along with her couch, attract the …


Gilmer, Jennifer (Fa 304), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Gilmer, Jennifer (Fa 304), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 304. Paper: "[Folklore in Ann Landers' Columns]" written by Jennifer Gilmer for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Chase, Barbara J. (Fa 316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Chase, Barbara J. (Fa 316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 316. Paper: "A Study of the Black Cosmetology Field" written by Barbara J. Chase for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Masters, John Post, 1885-1973 (Sc 1654), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Masters, John Post, 1885-1973 (Sc 1654), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Small Collection 1654. Warrant of arrest from the Bowling Green, Kentucky Police Court for John Post Masters, manager of a theater in Bowling Green owned by the Crescent Amusement Company. The offense was "maintaining a public nuisance."


Ganter, Roxanne (Fa 305), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Ganter, Roxanne (Fa 305), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 305. Paper: "My Group Event: Canasta" written by Roxanne Ganter for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Drake, Angela (Fa 282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Drake, Angela (Fa 282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 282. Paper: "Generation Comparisons" written by Angela Drake for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Becker, Lori (Fa 299), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Becker, Lori (Fa 299), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 299. Paper: "Halloween Coverage Throughout October" written by Lori Becker for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Callis, Susan (Fa 293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Callis, Susan (Fa 293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 293. Paper: "An Index to Quilt Patterns in Western Kentucky University Archives" written by Susan Callis for a Western Kentucky University English class.


Ward Family Papers (Mss 59), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Ward Family Papers (Mss 59), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 59. Papers chiefly of Hezekiah and Richard Ward of Ohio County, Kentucky. Promissory notes, 1857-79 (14 items); tax receipts, 1864-68 (4); telephone receipts, 1913-34 (44); and miscellaneous receipts, 1824-1937 (40); legal papers, 1873-1939 (14); essay and play, 189?; and genealogical data (2).


Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Mss 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Mss 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Correspondence, speeches, and writings of Shaker scholar and English professor, Mary Julia Neal, a native of Auburn, Kentucky. Neal served as director of the Kentucky Building at Western Kentucky University from 1964 to 1972. Includes photos and correspondence with twentieth century eastern Shakers.


Kibby, Cynthia L. "Cyndi" (Fa 285), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Kibby, Cynthia L. "Cyndi" (Fa 285), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 285. Paper: "Establishing Individual Identity Within a Military Family Through Folklore: written by Cynthia L. Kibby for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Is The Automobile Essential To Freedom?: Yes!, Rolf A. Jacobson Jul 2008

Is The Automobile Essential To Freedom?: Yes!, Rolf A. Jacobson

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


American Again In My Lai, Charles Waugh Jul 2008

American Again In My Lai, Charles Waugh

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Creating A Space For Yal With Lgbt Content In Our Personal Reading: Creating A Place For Lgbt Students In Our Classrooms, Katherine Mason Jul 2008

Creating A Space For Yal With Lgbt Content In Our Personal Reading: Creating A Place For Lgbt Students In Our Classrooms, Katherine Mason

Faculty and Research Publications

No abstract provided.