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Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2021 (Fa 1409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1409. Audio, photographs, and video documenting the Horse Cave Heritage Festival, an annual September event in Horse Cave, Kentucky celebrating local heritage with craft artisans, antique vehicles, children’s activities, food, music, and other attractions. Includes interviews and a narrative stage hosted by the Kentucky Folklife Program.

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2018 (Fa 1407), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1407. Audio, photographs, and video documenting the Horse Cave Heritage Festival, an annual September event in Horse Cave, Kentucky celebrating local heritage with craft artisans, antique vehicles, children’s activities, food, music, and other attractions. Includes interviews and a narrative stage hosted by the Kentucky Folklife Program.

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2019 (Fa 1408), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1408. Audio, photographs, and video documenting the Horse Cave Heritage Festival, an annual September event in Horse Cave, Kentucky celebrating local heritage with craft artisans, antique vehicles, children’s activities, food, music, and other attractions. Includes interviews and a narrative stage hosted by the Kentucky Folklife Program.

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2017 (Fa 1406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1406. Audio, photographs, and video documenting the Horse Cave Heritage Festival, an annual September event in Horse Cave, Kentucky celebrating local heritage with craft artisans, antique vehicles, children’s activities, food, music, and other attractions. Includes interviews and a narrative stage hosted by the Kentucky Folklife Program.

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2016 (Fa 1405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1405. Audio, photographs, and video documenting the Horse Cave Heritage Festival, an annual September event in Horse Cave, Kentucky celebrating local heritage with craft artisans, antique vehicles, children’s activities, food, music, and other attractions. Includes interviews and a narrative stage hosted by the Kentucky Folklife Program.

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2014 (Fa 1404), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1404. Audio, photographs, and video documenting the Horse Cave Heritage Festival, an annual September event in Horse Cave, Kentucky celebrating local heritage with craft artisans, antique vehicles, children’s activities, food, music, and other attractions. Includes interviews and a narrative stage hosted by the Kentucky Folklife Program.

Landseer, Edwin, 1802-1873 (Sc 3703), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3703. Letter, 16 November 1828, from artist Edwin Landseer, Lisson Grove, London, to fellow artist and collector William Mayor in Islington. He apologizes for missing a recent meeting and asks Mayor to visit him the following Saturday and “dine in a very quiet way here.”

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2013 (Fa 1400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1400. Audio, photographs, and narrative stage logs documenting the Horse Cave Heritage Festival, an annual September event in Horse Cave, Kentucky celebrating local heritage with craft artisans, antique vehicles, children’s activities, food, music, and other attractions. Includes interviews and a narrative stage hosted by the Kentucky Folklife Program.

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2015 (Fa 1401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1401. Audio, photographs, and narrative stage logs documenting the Horse Cave Heritage Festival, an annual September event in Horse Cave, Kentucky celebrating local heritage with craft artisans, antique vehicles, children’s activities, food, music, and other attractions. Includes interviews and a narrative stage hosted by the Kentucky Folklife Program.

Lawson, Selby C. "Shad," 1890-1984 (Sc 3702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3702. Transcript (possibly incomplete), apparently of a taped interview conducted on 15 September 1979 by Nancy Disher Baird with Selby “Shad” Lawson regarding his attendance at Ogden College, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Page, Tate Cromwell "Piney," 1908-1984 (Fa 1397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1397. Papers of Page, former Dean of the College of Education at Western Kentucky University, primarily concerning his work documenting the people, places, history and folklore of the Ozarks region in Arkansas where he was raised. Also includes his photographs of historic structures, made mostly in western Kentucky.

P.E.O. Sisterhood - Chapter O - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3741. Yearbooks, 1982/83-1988/89, of the P.E.O. (Philanthropic Educational Organization) Sisterhood, Chapter O, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Richardson, Laura Elizabeth (Ferguson), 1908-1986 (Sc 3701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3701. Letter, 1 May 1974, from Elizabeth Ferguson to “Shirley,” enclosing a gift of eight fabric pieces once belonging to quilt historian and author Florence Peto, together with some background information on the fabrics. Richardson also describes her recent activities, and notes her intention to retire from public school teaching.

Johnson, John T., 1820-1875 (Sc 3699), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3699. Case file for T. T. Melburn v. John T. Johnson, U.S. District Court for the District of Kentucky, filed 26 May 1870. Petitioner Melburn, a carpenter and stair builder of Bowling Green, Kentucky, sought an accounting for transactions during his 1869-1870 partnership with Johnson, also a carpenter, of Woodburn, Kentucky, claiming that Johnson had misappropriated assets of the firm and had committed an act of insolvency by transferring land to a relative. The inquiry, conducted by Warner Underwood as Register in Bankruptcy, included depositions from …

Dale, Kristin M. (Sc 3700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3700. “The History of the Mystery House at 420 East Avenue,” by Kristin Dale, a paper exploring the ownership, design, occupants, and historical context of this Bowling Green, Kentucky structure, originally built as the “Welch Apartments.”

Meredith, Tracy (Fa 1394), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1394. “Early History of Mammoth Cave,” a project by WKU student Tracy Meredith, consisting of a paper that focuses on early owners, guides and visitors at the Cave; taped interviews with three individuals about their work at the Cave with the Civilian Conservation Corps; and tape indexes.

Rinehard, Catherine J. (Fa 1396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1396. “The Happy Family: Working as a Waitress at Park Mammoth Resort,” a project by WKU student Cathy Reinhard consisting of a paper and transcriptions of six taped interviews with Treva Nell Merideth, a member of the wait staff at the Park Mammoth Resort restaurant in Park City, Kentucky. Merideth talks about her job responsibilities, coworkers, interactions with customers, and some of her personal beliefs and superstitions. The project also discusses this restaurant as a workplace, its procedures, equipment and layout. Includes a glossary, dining leaflet and …

Braden, Linda (Fa 1395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1395. “Torch Throwing in Mammoth Cave,” a paper by WKU student Linda Braden that discusses Cave guides, torch making, and the skill of torch throwing to illuminate the Cave during tours.

Calendar Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 757), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 757. Minutes, 1889-1984, of the Calendar Club, a men’s literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes two programs commemorating the Club’s fiftieth and seventy-fifth anniversaries (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans).

Pate Family Correspondence (Sc 3697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scans and typescripts of selected letters (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3697. Correspondence of the Pate family of Cloverport and “Brooks Bottom” in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, and of their relatives in the Ramsey and Brackin families (Ohio County), Butler family (Sumner County, Tennessee) and Benton family (Louisville, Kentucky). George L. Pate writes daughter Mary Jane (Pate) Ramsey of conflict with his son Samuel; of his grief over the death of another son in infancy; of the accidental shooting of a young man by his bride-to-be in 1863; and, in 1864, of an attack on …

Whittle, Charles Edward, Jr., 1931-2012 (Sc 3698), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3698. Well-illustrated biographical volume on the life, career and family of Charles E. Whittle, Jr., a Brownsville, Kentucky native who served as a physics professor at Western Kentucky University and at Centre College, and as a senior scientist at Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald: Our Changing Hill, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine edition of the College Heights Herald for the period September 5 - October 4, 2023.

• Anderson, Alexandria. Letter from the Editor – Change
• Dobberstein, Molly: The Hill Going Forward: Campus Changes & Improvements
• Anderson, Alexandria. WKU Innovation Campus Rethinks Business Development
• Reed, Bailey. New Courses on the Hill – Child Welfare, Mock Trail, Disability in US
• Murray, Debra. I Feel Really Lucky – Katherine Lennard
• Stone, Damon. Photojournalism Program to Change Curriculum

Korean War, 1950-1953 (Sc 3696), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3696. Two letters written by servicemen during the Korean War to Bess Warden and her daughter Betty Ann of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Robert H. Dickerson writes his aunt Bess on 11 May 1952 describing a Mother’s Day service and remembering his late mother; he also refers to family news from home. John Fraunfelter writes sadly to Betty Ann on 5 July 1952 of the recent loss of most of his company in defending a hill, and mourns the deaths of fellow soldiers who were soon scheduled to …

Whittle, Joseph Merle, B. 1933 (Mss 756), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 756. Correspondence and papers of Joseph M. Whittle, a Grayson County attorney who served as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky from 1986-1993.

Taylor Family Houses - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3268), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3268. Collection of genealogical and historic research on four Taylor family houses located in Warren County, Kentucky. Includes data on original owners and residents, deeds, and photographs.

The Identity Of Lucina, Wife Of John A. Tarrant (D. 1864) Of New York, New York, Charles H. Smith

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

In compiling my "Charles H. Smith: A Direct-Line Ancestry, Since Colonial Times" (published online in 2020), I was initially foiled in my attempts to identify the parents of my great-great grandfather John A. Tarrant (d. 1864), onetime owner of a highly successful wholesale drugs firm in New York City, or those of his wife Lucina (d. 1857). Some basic detective work I've carried out since that time has produced progress on the matter, as I now report.

Thurman, Frederick Anthony "Tony," B. 1966 (Sc 3695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3695. Correspondence, clippings and other material relating to the childhood of Tony Thurman, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and principally to his involvement in the Boy Scouts, his awards, merit badges and other certifications, and his achievement of Eagle Scout status. Also includes a childhood letter to President Gerald Ford, items related to Thurman’s BB gun shooting competitions, and a Christmas greeting on a phonograph record.

Pearley, Lamont Jack, B. 1974 (Fa 1426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1426. Audio interviews by WKU student Lamont Pearley of the husband-and-wife proprietors of Need More Acres Farm in Scottsville, Kentucky. They discuss their lives as farmers, agricultural practices, and sustainable farming. One interview includes a transcript and the other includes an index/log.

Smith, Justin, Jr., B. 2000 (Fa 1423), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1423. Audio interviews by WKU student Justin Smith, Jr. of two informants who discuss the African-American experience at Western Kentucky University during the 1970s. Includes transcripts and indexes/logs; also includes Smith’s brief summary and reflections on the project.

Birthdays (Sc 3694), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3694. Embossed note paper bearing a handwritten quotation about the meaning of birthdays, dated 23 November 1884.