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"Realize I Don't Want To Be A Miser": Giving Up Power, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

Oftentimes, 'the visitor is sovereign' is used as a crib notes version of, "the customer is always right." That's not what it was intended to mean. That is a gross bastardization of the concept, in fact. David Larsen in Meaningful Interpretation characterizes it succinctly: "it is the audience that will ultimately decide if they've had a meaningful experience, connected emotionally and intellectually, and believe the place is worth caring about and for." [excerpt]

The Grizzly, February 2, 2012, Liz Kilmer, Nick Pane, Caroline Edler, Melissa Rutkowski, Lisa Jobe, Lauren Goldstein, Sara Hourwitz, Sarah Bollert, Taylor Sparks, Kyu Chul Shin, Kelsey Mahaffey, Sarah Godfrey, Keith Baker, Matthew Johnston, James Wagner

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Birk Launches Graphic Novel at UC • Myrin Welcomes New Library Intern • Resumania Preps Students for Job, Internship Fair • Organic Farm Names New Student Director • Ursinus Introduces Zumba Class for Students • Jablonowski Gains Experience at Academy of Natural Sciences • St. Christopher's Offers Volunteer Opportunity for UC Students • Opinion: SOPA had Right Idea, but was Misguided; Major and Minor Expo Offers Great Information • Senior Spotlight: Sean Whelan, Football • Buckley's Bears Battle Through Adversity • Ursinus Community Remembers Daniel Glover

Lg Ms 021 Maine Civil Rights March & Rally Committee Archives Finding Aid, Maeve Wachowicz

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The Maine Civil Rights March & Rally Committee was formed in response to the February 1998 repeal of the civil rights law which had been enacted in May 1997. They organized a march, rally and fundraising entertainment event on Oct. 18, 1998. They followed these events with a vigil in memory of Mathew Shepard, with services held in several parts of the state on Oct. 18, 1998. The Committee also sponsored an "Interfaith Vigil Against Hate Violence" in Bangor on Oct. 7, 1999. The Archives contains some records of the Committee, blank cards representative of an effort to have …

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Feb. 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

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Ferguson, W. H. (Sc 354), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 354. Photocopy of Ferguson’s note, deposited in the post of a portico then under construction at a house on South Cherry Street, Greenville, Kentucky. It lists his various landlords in Greenville and notes the names of some engaged couples as well as some young ladies he calls his “heart’s treasures.” Also included is information about the construction of the house.

Kentucky Folklore Society (Sc 353), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 353. Manuscript minute book of the Kentucky branch of the American Folklore Society, 1912?-1953; loose sheets of reports of various meetings and financial reports, letters, etc., 1917-1957.

Black Heritage Stamp Series: John H. Johnson, United States Postal Service. Stamp Division

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Informational pages for John H. Johnson Commemorative stamp – Black Heritage Series, includes images of the stamps, information about the physical stamps and biographical information for John H. Johnson. First issued January 31, 2012, 35th in a series.

Minute Books - Sunday Schools (Sc 350), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 350. Book of the recording secretaries for Salem Baptist Sunday School, 1856-1857, and for Lebanon Baptist Sunday School, 1859-1862, both of Butler County, Kentucky.

Hay, Vincent Smiley, 1808-1863 (Sc 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 352. Agreement to teach school, 1829; Civil War letter written from camp near Corinth, Mississippi, 1862; manuscript book which contains record of John F. Hines’ estate of which Hay was administrator, 1859 – noted is commissioner’s fee for selling slave, 1861, and writings of Rebecca Hay Gray on various subjects—spiritualism, religion, friendship, etc., and recipes, 1876-1881.

Morehead House Hotel - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 390), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 390. Hotel registers (9) from the final years of the Morehead House Hotel, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The Morehead House was one of the city's oldest and longest running hostelries.

Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 - Relating To (Sc 255), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 255. Photocopies of a notarized statement and two letters concerning the site where the Thomas Lincoln family crossed the Ohio River in 1816 from Cloverport, Breckinridge County, Kentucky, to Indiana. Also, information related to plans to survey the Lincoln Trail.

Buckner Family Papers (Sc 257), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 257. Letter, 17 November 1847, written by Simon B. Buckner, Mexico, to his cousin Mary E. Leedom, Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky, relating some of his activities while serving in the Mexican War; his 1878 condolence letter to his cousin in Elizabethtown; letter, 1914, written by Delia (Claiborne) Buckner, Buckner’s second wife, acknowledging expression of sympathy received after his death; six funeral announcements, 1842-1862, chiefly of the Leedom family; two photographs of Buckner and one of his daughter, Lily.

Bowdon, Travis, 1773-1862 (Sc 256), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 256. Document by which a thirteen-year-old African-American enslaved girl was deeded by Travis Bowdon, Graves County, Kentucky, to his granddaughter, Julian Jones and her husband, Robert. Signature of John Anderson, first clerk of Graves County, is on the deed.

Strahm, Franz Joseph, 1867-1941 (Sc 258), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Mansucripts Small Collection 258. Letter written by Franz Joseph Strahm, music department faculty member, Western Kentucky State Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Mrs. Joe Bryant Helm, Smiths Grove, Warren County, Kentucky, declining an opportunity to play the piano in Louisville owing to his ill health.

Younglove, Joseph Isaiah, 1818-1894 (Sc 260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 260. Three letters of Joseph I. Younglove, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his brothers, David and James, and sister, Jane, New York state, relating news of his drugstore, of his upcoming marriage to Sarah Morehead, and the effect of the Civil War on conditions in Bowling Green; a candy order for the drugstore, 1847; and a certificate attesting to his business integrity, presented by the Merchants Protective Association.

Bullitt County, Kentucky (Sc 259), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 259. Photocopy of a post note issued by the Bank of Shepherdsville, Bullitt County, Kentucky, to J. Gore, 1819, for $5.00; photocopy of ledger pages detailing the salt made and sold by John Graham, 1 January 1824 to 1 January 1825, at the furnaces of Joseph A. Brooks, Bullitt County.

Silva, Ann (Fa 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 53. “A History of the Logan County Tobacco Festival” Paper written about an annual festival celebrating tobacco culture held in Russellville, Kentucky. Paper was written for a history class at Western Kentucky University.

Leslie, Preston Hopkins, 1819-1907 - Relating To (Sc 254), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 254. Photocopies of sketch written about Preston Hopkins Leslie in 1910, and a letter, 16 August 1969, written by Mary (Leslie) Ford, Helena, Montana, to Tim Cantrell, Henderson, Kentucky, related to Cantrell’s interest in writing a book about Preston Hopkins Leslie, Ford’s grandfather. Leslie was governor of Kentucky from 1871 to 1875, and governor of Montana from 1887 to 1889.

Jeffries & Myers (Sc 289), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 289. Daybook, 1834-1840, of James Jeffries and Harvey Myers, leather dealers at Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky. Also includes a booket of notes due labeled, “Jeffries & Bush, Note Book, Nov. 4^th, 1837.”

Mcreynolds Store (Sc 290), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 290. Account book, 1883-1888, of a general store at Lewisburg, Logan County, Kentucky. Some pages have been used as a scrapbook and include clippings of poems and essays, and colored cards.

Fairleigh Family Papers (Sc 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 349. Class book, 1839-1844, of the Methodist Church, Brandenburg, Kentucky, containing membership list, 1843-44, and some notations of contributions. Also, it contains law and minutes of the Belles Lettres Society, 1849-1850, and of the Union Debating Society, October 1852. The book was kept by Thomas Fairleigh and other Fairleigh family members.

Sit Down And Cry: Why Our Favorite Joke Is Demeaning, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

A family of visitors walks up to the information desk and smiles at the interpreter. "We have 15 minutes," the father says, "What should we do?"

The interpreter replies with a curt smile: "Sit down and cry." [excerpt]

The Grizzly, January 26, 2012, Liz Kilmer, Nick Pane, James Noebels, Melissa Rutkowski, Lisa Jobe, Michael Schmidt, Sarah Bollert, Lauren Goldstein, Julia Fox, Sabrina Mcgettigan, Sara Hourwitz, Kyu Chul Shin, Victoria Cameron

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Ursinus Celebrates Dr. King's Life • CAB Sponsoring New Spring Events • Alumnus Loses Battle with Cancer • Grizzly Update • Psychology Major Interns at Yale • Student Organization Raises Awareness About Safe Sex • UTD Finale Event Tonight • Collegeville Area Offers Dining Variety • Opinion: Facebook and Cell Phones Impede Learning; Mitt Romney Favorite for GOP Nomination • Life on the Road: Men's Basketball Travels to Las Vegas • Graduating Athletes Focus on Healthier Lifestyle

Volkerding Family Papers (Mss 385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 385. Letters written chiefly by Herman Frederick Wilhelm Volkerding, of Louisville, Kentucky, to his wife Mary Elizabeth (Hauber) Volkerding while traveling as a salesman for the John T. Barbee distillers. Volkerding pines for home and describes the scenery, hotels, amusements and rail travel in the western United States.

Beech Grove, Kentucky - Records (Sc 348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 348. Letters, legal papers, and receipts, 1902-1916 (52), of Beech Grove, McLean County, Kentucky; and journal containing the town’s ordinances, 1894-1901, minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1894-1901, accounts received and expended, and listing of road hands, 1895.

Donaldson, William M. (Sc 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 346. Circular letter written by in behalf of Henry E. Youtsey who was imprisoned for his actions in the murder of Governor William Justus Goebel. Signatures on a petition were to be obtained with petition being returned to Mr. Donaldson, Newport, Kentucky.

Southern Normal School And Business College - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 253), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 253. Unsigned letter written 7 June 1885 on the stationery of the Southern Normal School and Business College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Joe E. Rudolph, Hazelwood, Ballard County, Kentucky, relating students’ activities while the writer was enrolled in the college.

Bowling Green And Northern Railway Company (Sc 249), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 249. Warren County, Kentucky Court proceedings, January to March, 1889, concerning a proposed subscription for capital stock in the Bowling Green and Northern Railway Company. Includes the results of the vote by the legal voters of Warren County on the proposal.

Philips, Emanie Louise (Nahm) Sachs Arling, 1893-1981 (Sc 251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 251. Correspondence of Mrs. Sachs, writer, and native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly with Mary T. Moore, librarian, Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, related to a book on the history of Kentucky that Sachs was researching.

Campbell, Marie, 1907-2003 (Sc 252), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 252. Correspondence of Marie Campbell, author and teacher, with Elizabeth Coombs, librarian, Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, concerning Miss Campbell’s writing and publishing efforts.