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Simpson, Sarah (Middleton), 1903-1987 (Sc 1939), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1939. Cassette tape "Vines and Branches" in which Sarah (Middleton) Simpson relates some Middleton and Simpson family history for her grandchildren.

Harris, Hilary (Fa 461), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 461. DVD: "Circle of Friends: Life and Times of Girls Scouts" produced by Hilary Harris for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

Walking Box Ranch Planning And Design Quarterly Progress Report: Period Ending July 10, 2009, Margaret N. Rees

Walking Box Ranch

• UNLV participated in the 100% Design Concept Plan meeting, June 10-12, 2009 at the BLM Las Vegas Field Office and Walking Box Ranch (WBR), and provided comments toward proposed concepts for the museum and field, research, and training center at Walking Box Ranch.
• A request for funding for road construction and repair at WBR was submitted to NDOT (6/24/09).
• UNLV participated in the following meetings related to the search for renewable energy funding for the ranch: ARRA Implementation Workshop sponsored by Senator Reid (4/16); UNLV Stimulus Funding Workshop (4/17), Renewable energy meeting with UNLV engineering faculty (4/21), Harry Reid Center …

Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 1692), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1692. Letter, 9 March 1922, from Lida (Calvert) Obenchain, Dallas, Texas to high school student Pearl Lowe, Bowling Green, Kentucky providing information for a paper Lowe was writing about Obenchain. Includes some biographical information about Lowe.

Womi (Radio Station) - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 1943), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1943. Program Verification card sent from WOMI, Owensboro, Kentucky to Harold Gentry, Haworth, Oklahoma.

Porter, Elvis Hines, 1850-1935 (Sc 1950), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1950. Reference letter written by staff members of the "Bowling Green Democrat" for Elvis Hines Porter.

Sexton, Alma Lorene (Smith), 1922-2002 (Sc 1947), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1947. Letter, 2 December 1943, written by Alma Lorene Sexton, Siloam, Greenup County, Kentucky to her husband Earl Sexton who is in military service during World War II. She discusses Thanksgiving and expresses her concern for her husband's hygiene.

Watson, Robert Clark, 1914-1987 (Sc 1940), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1940. "History of the Watson Family" by Robert Clark Watson; also relates some local history of Summer Shade, Metcalfe County, Kentucky.

Underwood, John Cox, 1840-1913 (Sc 1938), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1938. Letter, 25 March 1900, from John Cox Underwood, New York City, to Charles S. Sweet, Chicago related to a missed appointment with Robert Todd Lincoln; letter is on stationery of the Confederate Memorial Association.

Pioneer Cemetery - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1949), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1949. Correspondence and a news clipping related to the use of tombstones in a proposed sidewalk at Pioneer Cemetery, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Walker, Marion (Kumler), B. 1864 (Sc 1948), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1948. Letter to prospective sales agents and promotional material for a beauty aid product produced and distributed by Mrs. Marion Walker of Louisville, Kentucky.

Eversole, Margaret B., B. 1927 (Sc 1941), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1941. Brief interview with Margaret B. Eversole conducted by Sue Lynn McDaniel about her remembrances of U S. Congressman William H. Natcher.

Bush, Margaret S. (Sc 1942), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1942. Information chiefly related to Margaret S. Bush's tenure as director of the Lewis B. Hershey Museum at Tri-State University in Angola, Indiana. also inlcudes letters from former presidetns Truman and Johnson thanking her for providing information about the Hershey Museum.

Easton, John C., 1816-1898 (Sc 1953), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1953. Letter from John C. Easton, Taylorsville, Spencer County, Kentucky, to his brother, James D. Easton, Peru, Huron County, Ohio, discussing politics and the presidential election. Includes disparaging remarks about Richard Mentor Johnson (1781-1850).

Religion And Immigration, Old And New, Mark A. Granquist

Faculty Publications

Two great waves of immigration since the middle of the nineteenth century have had great impact on United States culture and religion. While there have been tensions and conflicts, the benefits to both the civil and religious communities continue to be striking.

The Octofoil, July/August/September 2009, Ninth Infantry Division Association

The Octofoil

The Octofoil is the offical publication of the Ninth Infantry Division Association, Inc., an organization formed by the officers and men of the 9th Infantry Division in order to perpetuate the memory of fallen comrades, preserve the esprit de corps of the Division, promote peace and serve as an information bureau about the 9th Infantry Division. The Association is made up of 9th Infantry veterans from WWII and Vietnam, spouses, widows and lineal descendants.

Errands Into The Metropolis: New England Dissidents In Revolutionary London, Jonathan Beecher Field

Publications

Errands into the Metropolis offers a dramatic new interpretation of the texts and contexts of early New England literature. Jonathan Beecher Field inverts the familiar paradigm of colonization as an errand into the wilderness to demonstrate, instead, that New England was shaped and re-shaped by a series of return trips to a metropolitan London convulsed with political turmoil. In London, dissidents and their more orthodox antagonists contended for colonial power through competing narratives of their experiences in the New World. Dissidents showed a greater willingness to construct their narratives in terms that were legible to a metropolitan reader than did …

Traces Volume 37, Number 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter

Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 32, Number 3 & 4, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Government And Politics Newsletter, Issue 5, Sacred Heart University

Government and Politics Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Famous Mayfield Artists

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Famous Mayfield Artists

Sandra Blythe

Of Unsound Mind: A Brief Look Back At Mental Health Services In Western Kentucky

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Of Unsound Mind: A Brief Look Back at Mental Health Services in Western Kentucky

Cecelia Edwards, MS

Book Review: Blood River To Berlin: The World War Ii Journal Of An Army Medic

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Book Review

Blood River to Berlin: The World War II Journal of an Army Medic

Dr. Marvin Downing

Additional Pictures Of The Fountain Avenue United Methodist Church Congregations, Classes, Bulletins, And Official Messenger

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Additional Pictures of the Fountain Avenue United Methodist Church Congregations, Classes, Bulletins, and Official Messenger

Edited by Melissa Earnest

Grades 4-5 The Iroquois, Dana Stabile

Social Studies

This is a social studies lesson for fourth and fifth graders on the Iroquois. . Through the lesson, students will understand where the Iroquois Tribe of the Eastern Woodlands lived in relation to modern day New York. Students will also be able to understand the practices, values, traditions, and daily life of the Iroquois tribe. In addition, students will understand the contributions these tribes have made to our nation today. This lesson spans over ten days and offers a variety of projects using a tic-tack-toe chart on three tiered levels where students can choose their favorite activity in each subject …

History Of The Fountain Avenue United Methodist Church

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History of the Fountain Avenue United Methodist Church

John and Margaret Robertson

History: A Fulton County Kentucky Chapter

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History: A Fulton County Kentucky Chapter

Sarah Strange

Past Presidents In Attendance, Picture At 50th Anniversary Celebration

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Past Presidents in Attendance, Picture at 50th Anniversary Celebration

Edited by Melissa Earnest

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Roll Call Of Presidents

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Jackson Purchase Historical Society Roll Call of Presidents

Edited by Melissa Earnest

Our New Court House

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Our New Court House

Sheila Caudle Rogers