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Ua37/44 Faculty Personal Papers Gordon Wilson, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Personal papers of Gordon Wilson.

Ferrell, Ann Katherine, B. 1972 (Fa 1381), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1381. Interview conducted on 11 December 2019 by Ann Ferrell with Michael Ann Williams, who discusses her education and academic career as a folklorist and vernacular architecture historian. From 1987-2018, Williams was a faculty member in the Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology at Western Kentucky University.

Ua37/30/4 Faculty Personal Papers Lowell Harrison, Sam Bruer, Bess Mchone, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Personal papers created by and about Lowell Harrison.

Community Heritage Day - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Fa 1130), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1130. Collection contains flyers and digital photographs taken at the Community Heritage Day event held on 4 November 2017 at the Kentucky Building in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The event—sponsored by the Kentucky Folklife Program, WKU Library Special Collections, the Kentucky Museum, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage grant—invited the general public to bring in items that were “significant to your family or our community story.” Materials were digitized, uploaded onto flash drives, and given to participants for personal, long-term accessibility. Note that Item 29 and Item 30 are duplicate images.

Quilts - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 2864), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2864. Correspondence, promotional material and planning notes for a quilt registry in Logan County, Kentucky, sponsored by the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society and a subsequent exhibit at the Kentucky Museum, Western Kentucky University.

Ua68/1/3 Arts & Letters, Vol. 4, No. 2, Wku Potter College Of Arts & Letters

WKU Archives Records

Magazine created by WKU Potter College of Arts & Letters regarding faculty and student research, events and programs.

Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Mss 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 445. Correspondence, published and unpublished writing, and research of Alexander Gordon Wilson, faculty member in the English department of Western Kentucky University from 1915-1959. Includes genealogical and autobiographical material as well as extensive research data and writing on the ornithology of Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky, on folklore and linguistics, and on the ornithology and folkways of the Mammoth Cave region of Edmonson County, Kentucky.

Harbison, Robert Glen (Fa 160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 160. This collection contains a paper entitled “The Strange Little Stone House: The History Of The Underwood Home – 1529 State Street,” written by Robert Harbison as a part of a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University in the fall of 1992. Also included is a Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory sheet detailing the Underwood Home.

Supernatural Experiences (Fa 74), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scans of two out of thirteen papers (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 74. [Supernatural Experiences] Project completed by Western Kentucky University students for a folk studies class taught by Lynwood Montell. Collection focuses on short supernatural events experienced by informants. Subjects include dreams, ghosts, Ouija boards, sleepovers, church experiences and others.

Mitchell, Eleonore Beck (Fa 70), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 70. “History of ROTC.” Collection contains interviews, field notes indexes and cassettes of project completed with Frank Allen Minner by Eleonore Beck Mitchell. Collection was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Interview covers topics such as the history of ROTC, the ROTC program at Western Kentucky University, recruitment, and differences in training between ROTC and military academies.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 17, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 8, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Ua1d Mary Clarke, Wku Human Resources

WKU Archives Records

Personnel file of professor Mary Clarke, includes correspondence and newspaper clippings.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 72, No. 49, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Regular features include:

• Just a Second
• Campus Line
• For the Record / Crime Reports
• People Poll
• Sports
• Diversions
• Movie Reviews
• Classifieds

Articles in this issue:

• Pretrial Postponed Because of Psychiatric Evaluation – Ray Biggerstaff
• Olmsted, Mikki. Two Western Employees Arrested – Eric Lindgren, Beverly Pruett
• Lynn, Kelley. Family Bluegrass Band – The New Generation Bluegrass Band, Whittinghill Family
• Batcheldor, Matt. Student Government Association Candidates Preparing for Elections
• Lanter, Charlie. Sorority’s Showcase Spotlights Western Student’s Talent – Delta Sigma Theta
• Higher Education Plan Can Work
• Brown, Karen. Returning to Church, …

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

FA Oral Histories

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.

Ua68/6/1 Broomsedge Chronicles: Farm Living In South Central Kentucky, Wku English, Wku Glasgow

WKU Archives Records

A collection of essays written by English 100 Freshman Composition and English 200 Introduction to Literature students attending WKU Glasgow from 1983 through 1992 taught by Loretta Murrey. Student authors are: Joyce Alford, Joyce Amer, Jeff Ballard, Sandie Barrick, Jerry Bean, Shela Bingham, Brent Bledsoe, Steven Bunch, Billy Carver, Angela Cowan, Karen Decker, Betty Dillahay, Dibbie Dilley, Amy Doyel, Jeff Duncan, Craig Emmitt, Barbara England, Kathy Fancher, Amanda Gillon, Michelle Glover, Jeanelle Gooch, Faye Johnson, Celena Martin, Sonia Martin, Tracy Mathews, Ila Moody, Angela Morris, William Myatt, Judy Parker, Dorothean Powell, Maria Pulanco, Diane Rather, Jennifer Reneau, LaDarra Rich, Pam …

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

FA Oral Histories

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.

Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - F Topics, Lowell Harrison

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Notecards created by Lowell Harrison while researching his book Western Kentucky University. The cards transcribed below are for 259 topics beginning with F ranging from Faculty - Hunt to Future of Education.

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 …

Tinsley Bottom Tennessee: An Historical Reconstruction Utilizing Oral Narrative Traditions, Rebecca Morse

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Tinsley Bottom lies adjacent to the Cumberland River in Jackson and Clay Counties in north central Tennessee. The rich rolling bottomland totaling approximately two thousand acres on the south bank of the Cumberland River lured several families to purchase land and take residence there in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

The history of Tinsley Bottom is not found in written records or annals of Tennessee history. No person of reknown sprang from the cultural context of this community. Yet tales are told of how Daniel Boone hunted in the Bottom and slept in a cave overlooking the River, and …

Ua1d Kenneth Clarke, Wku Human Resources

WKU Archives Records

Personnel file of professor Kenneth Clarke, includes correspondence and newspaper clippings.

Tobacco Farming: The Persistence Of Tradition, Eugene Umberger Jr.

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The culture of tobacco has been associated with the history of Kentucky almost from the beginning and remains to this day a vital force in the state’s economy. In this age of scientific and technological advances – of increasing automation – we find that in tobacco farming, hand labor still figures prominently in the production of a major staple crop. This has resulted in the retention of traditional method, technology and terminology, long since lost in the culture of other crops which lent themselves more easily to mechanization.

The study is divided into three parts. Chapter I deals briefly with …

The Cedar Grove Community In Oral Folk History, Ada Parker

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The thesis was originally done for the Center for Intercultural & Folk Studies which no longer exists.

Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 40, No. 2, Wku Alumni Relations

WKU Archives Records

Quarterly magazine created for WKU alumni. Regular features are Hilltopics, Sports, Alumni Newsgrams and Notes and In Memoriam. This issue includes:

• Graduate School (College) is On Its Way
• Evening Class is Thataway
• The Hilltopper Hundred to the Rescue
• ETV - Keep Watching, It's All in Color
• Student Interns Learn How Government Works
• Significant Statements: The New Year Begins
• Good News for Fishermen: Reservoir Research
• There it Was! Your Homecoming - 1971
• Performing Arts Illuminate the Campus Scene
• Discovery 1 - Uncovering the Kentucky of Antiquity
• Discovery 2 - Reviving the Heritage of Kentucky
• Discovery 3 - The Intercultural Studies Program …

Ua37/44 Tidbits Of Kentucky Folklore, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Tidbits of Kentucky Folklore nos. 900-989, 999-1049:

• A Cheerful Liar – 252
• A Mother in Israel – 219
• A Neighborhood Sheik – 215
• A Thin Veneer – 244
• Amen – 109
• Appropriate Food – 99
• Asafetida Bags & Sulfa Drugs – 250
• Awards Day – 278
• Bad Connections – 276
• Ballad Situations – 113
• Becoming a Back Number – 27
• Bells, Bells, Bells – 83
• Blab Schools – 169
• Bottomless Pits – 201
• Burning Off the Woods – 151
• But Not Homer – 47
• By the Highway – 159
• By the Side of the Road – 25
• Calf Rope – …

Ua37/44 Tidbits Of Kentucky Folklore, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Tidbits of Kentucky Folklore nos. 750-799, 803-804, 807-831, 833-857, 859-899:

• A Changing World – 167
• A Cycle of Folk Culture – 215
• A Few Lines – 257
• Across the Creek – 241
• Adults & Children – 3
• All Mixed Up – 65
• And Thee Is a Little Queer – 69
• Anecdotal Wisdom – 15
• Another Barrier Removed – 83
• Beauty & Prejudice – 163
• Beauty & Religion – 139
• Being Typical – 23
• Better But Sadder – 51
• Blue Monday – 111
• Boogers – 177
• Brave Men, Living & Dead – 77
• Candy Kisses – 37
• Canopus – 149
• Changing …

Ua37/44 Tidbits Of Kentucky Folklore, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Tidbits of Kentucky Folklore nos. 676-749:

• A Changing Christmas – 79
• A Dry Moon – 42
• A Folk Triumph – 4
• A Folklore Map of Kentucky – 46
• A Glossary of Passing Words – 135
• A Healthful Sign – 10
• Advancing or Retreating? – 36
• Analogy, Good & Bad – 28
• Ancestry & Common Sense – 105
• Another Dopester Wrong – 66
• Are You Superstitious? – 44
• Back on the Old Party Line – 145
• Blind, Deaf & Dumb – 141
• Bossy & Dobbin – 91
• Bucket Jelly – 16
• By Any Other Name – 147
• By Eye or By …

Ua37/44 Tidbits Of Kentucky Folklore, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Tidbits of Kentucky Folklore nos. 566-669:

• A Few Generations – 57
• Agreeable Fans – 7
• All Tied Up with Memories – 95
• An Ivory Tower – 15
• As In the Days of Methuselah – 188
• Bowser & the Wildcat – 126
• By Their Fruits – 154
• Chicken Coops & Horse Troughs – 196
• Chicken Hawks & Tom Paine – 47
• Childish Fears – 27
• Chimneys – 140
• Communal Culture – 51
• Contiguous Areas – 138
• Country Hicks – 112
• Cradles – 108
• Culture in Hymns – 59
• Cycles of Teaching – 162
• Didn’t It Rain? – 164
• Digging in the …

Ua37/44 Tidbits Of Kentucky Folklore, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Tidbits of Kentucky Folklore nos. 428-503:

• A Cycle of Fences – 100
• Afraid of Science – 90
• Art Through the Side Door – 116
• As Big as All Out-of-Doors – 134
• Asking the Way – 108
• Backing Up the Preacher – 96
• Barriers – 72
• Baying the Moon – 46
• Blackberries – 86
• Borrowing Books – 118
• Bound Each to Each – 126
• Branch Water – 94
• Brandon’s Mill – 12
• Come to Dinner – 128
• Condescension – 68
• Cutting a Splurge – 88
• Elocution – 18
• Eyes That See Not – 50
• Fidelity – Where Is It? – 34 …

Ua37/44 Tidbits Of Kentucky Folklore, Gordon Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Tidbits of Kentucky Folklore nos. 200-300:

• A House by the Side of the Road – 192
• A Piece of the Way – 132
• A Tent Photographer – 7
• A Tent Show at Fidelity – 20
• A Village Oracle – 60
• Bark Whips – 128
• Better Than His Bond – 84
• Buggy Fixin’s – 130
• Burdock, Jimson Weeds & Cockleburs – 74
• Burning Down the House I Was Brung Up In – 158
• Buttons – 34
• Chestnuts – 162
• Children’s Post Offices – 126
• Children’s Superstitions – 124
• Company – 142
• Confederate Reunions – 52
• Consule Planco – 70
• Corn – …