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Book Review: Mediating Moms: Mothers In Popular Culture, Kristi Branham Jun 2013

Book Review: Mediating Moms: Mothers In Popular Culture, Kristi Branham

English Faculty Publications

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Cleaver, Oscar Payne, 1905-1996 (Mss 106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Cleaver, Oscar Payne, 1905-1996 (Mss 106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 106. Miscellaneous papers related to the military and civilian careers of Hart County, Kentucky, native Oscar Payne Cleaver, who was a lighting expert and was instrumental in the development of night vision equipment. Includes a brief reminiscence about his lighting work on the film “Gone With the Wind.”


Ravelings (Fa 752), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Ravelings (Fa 752), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 752. Clippings of "Ravelings" column from "Harland (Kentucky) Daily Enterprise" and "Corbin (Kentucky) Daily Tribune" with collected mountain superstitions, customs, and folkways.


Pinto, Chelsea (Fa 591), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Pinto, Chelsea (Fa 591), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 591. Paper, titled “Paul McCartney Wanted Dead or Alive”, written by Chelsea Pinto for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Pinto details the urban legend surrounding the alleged death of Paul McCartney of the English rock band The Beatles, and his subsequent replacement by a “look-alike”. Pinto bases her conclusions largely on a small number of interviews conducted with Beatles fans.