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Interview With Yvonne Dodge Regarding Sarah Gertrude Knott (Fa 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1996

Interview With Yvonne Dodge Regarding Sarah Gertrude Knott (Fa 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Transcription of an interview with Yvonne Dodge, Princeton, Kentucky, conducted by Michael Ann Williams regarding the life of Sarah Gertrude Knott and her sister Gladys Knott. Dodge discusses the Knott family, but the majority of the interview focuses on Sarah's personal and professional life, including her work with the National Folk Festival.

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Interview With Joe Hickerson Regarding Sarah Gertrude Knott (Fa 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 1995

Interview With Joe Hickerson Regarding Sarah Gertrude Knott (Fa 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Transcription of an interview with Joe Hickerson at the Library of Congress regarding Sarah Gertrude Knott and the National Folk Festival. Also includes discussions about folk music, folk musicians, and the National Council for the Traditional Arts.

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Interview With Randall Grider And Ginnie Mae Grider About The Float Building Tradition In Tompkinsville, Kentucky (Fa 401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 1988

Interview With Randall Grider And Ginnie Mae Grider About The Float Building Tradition In Tompkinsville, Kentucky (Fa 401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Transcript of an interview of Randall and Ginnie Mae Grider conducted by Nancy Clay Hundley about the float building tradition at Tompkinsville High School in Tompkinsville, Kentucky. The Griders describe the whole float making process and the activities created through the building of a float. The emotions of the people involved in the process were also discussed. This project was completed as part of a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

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Interview With Irene Taylor Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1986

Interview With Irene Taylor Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Transcription of an interview with Irene Taylor conducted by Christopher Carey for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." In this brief interview Taylor discusses a general store in Hancock County, Kentucky called the Duncan store as well as one-room schools and the consolidation of schools. She also mentions the Chestnut Grove school in Hancock County.

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Interview With Mittie Dame Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1986

Interview With Mittie Dame Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Transcription of an interview with Mittie Dame conducted by Judi Hetrick for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Dame discusses her life and times including information about growing up in Calhoun, McLean County, Kentucky, her early marriage, entertainment, rural electrification, radios, refrigerators, social life and customs, Halloween pranks, moonshining, and farming.

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Interview With Oda Shouse, Sr. And Clara Shouse Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1986

Interview With Oda Shouse, Sr. And Clara Shouse Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Transcription of an interview with Oda Shouse, Sr. and Clara Shouse conducted by Keith Smith for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Mr. Shouse does most of the speaking. He discusses his life and times including information about floods, the Great Depression, tobacco farming, rural medicine, rural electrification, automobiles and telephones.

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Interview With Mary Bryant (Benton) Fitts Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1986

Interview With Mary Bryant (Benton) Fitts Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Transcription of an interview with Mary Brant (Benton) Fitts conducted by Karen Owen for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Fitts discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Utica and Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky, her children, social life and customs, race relations, World War II, and sundry other topics. Mrs. Fitts was a housewife and mother of two.

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Interview With Gwendolyn Johnston Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1986

Interview With Gwendolyn Johnston Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Transcription of an interview with Gwendolyn Johnston conducted by Keith Smith for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Johnston discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in West Louisville, Kentucky, education, games, a tornado that struck Louisville in the 1890s, automobiles, the Ku Klux Klan, Ronald Wilson Reagan, and parochial schools.

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Interview With Allyene Gregory Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1986

Interview With Allyene Gregory Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Transcription of an interview with Allyene Gregory conducted by Steve Vied for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Gregory discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Sorgho, Daviess County, Kentucky, education, childhood games, her father's farm, African Americans, social customs and historic events in the community, as well as her teaching career.

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Interview With Lattie Edds And Essie Thomason Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

Interview With Lattie Edds And Essie Thomason Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Transcription of an interview with Lattie Edds and Essie Thomason conducted by Judi Hetrick for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." They discuss their life and times, including information about growing up in McLean County and Hancock County, Kentucky, social life and customs, weaving, childhood chores and games, teachers and teaching, one-room schools, farms and farming, courtship, televisions, radios, the Great Depression, floods, and influenza.

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Interview With Lena Stolsworth Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

Interview With Lena Stolsworth Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Transcription of an interview with Lena Stolsworth conducted by Kim Parson for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Stolsworth discusses her life and times, including information about growing up on a farm in Ohio County, Kentucky, education, social life and customs, floods, the Great Depression and World War II.

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Interview With Otis & Essie Stevens Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

Interview With Otis & Essie Stevens Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Transcription of an interview with Essie (Crawford) Stevens and Otis Stevens conducted by Charlotte Postlewaite for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." The Stevens discuss their life and times, including information about growing up in Ohio County, Kentucky, education, one-room schools, farms and farming, teaching in a one-room school, food preservation and preparation, laundering, death, telephones and radios.

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Gregory, Corinne Taylor, B. 1904 (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

Gregory, Corinne Taylor, B. 1904 (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Transcription of an interview with Corinne Taylor Gregory conducted by Charlotte Postlewaite for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Gregory discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Ohio County, Kentucky, the Great Depression, horse racing, company stores, coal towns, courtship, and social life and customs.

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Interview With Charlie Earl Coy Regarding His Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

Interview With Charlie Earl Coy Regarding His Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Transcription of an interview with Charlie Earl Coy conducted by Keith Smith for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Coy discusses his life and times, including information about his childhood in Daviess County, Kentucky, farms and farming, the Great Depression, tobacco, social life and customs, airplanes, radios, television, tractors and other farm equipment, women's suffrage and influenza.

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Interview With Gayle Carver Regarding His Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

Interview With Gayle Carver Regarding His Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Transcription of an interview with Gayle Carver conducted by Joe Adams for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Carver discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, education, businesses, childhood chores, his phonograph record collection, World War II, the 1937 flood, the Great Depression, the first automobile and airplane he remembered and information about popular music of the era.

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Interview With Sarah Gertrude Knott, 1895-1984 (Fa 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 1976

Interview With Sarah Gertrude Knott, 1895-1984 (Fa 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Transcription of interview with Sarah Gertrude Knott conducted by Patricia “Patty” Harrington in March 1976. From a University of Virginia English class student project concerning Knott and the history of the National Folk Festival. The audio interviews are archived in the Sound Archives.

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