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Ua12/2/1 Basketball Section, Wku Student Affairs Oct 2013

Ua12/2/1 Basketball Section, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Special edition of the College Heights Herald featuring basketball.

  • Aulbach, Lucas. Expect Big Things from Both WKU Teams This Year – Basketball
  • Players to Watch: Lady Toppers – Chastity Gooch, Chaney Means, Bianca McGee, Alexis Govan
  • Players to Watch: Toppers – T.J. Price, George Fant, Brandon Harris, Aleksey Rostov
  • Lashbrook, Tyler. English Forward Ben Lawson Brings Unique Skill Set to WKU – International Students
  • Aulbach, Lucas. Toppers Beginning Quest for Third Straight Sun Belt Title
  • Williams, Kyle. Alexis Govan or Go Home
  • Williams, Kyle. Lady Toppers Not Sneaking Up on Anyone This Season
  • Lashbrook, Tyler. Point Taken: Ray Harper Looks …


Ua12/2/1 Bright Lights, Red City, Wku Student Affairs Oct 2013

Ua12/2/1 Bright Lights, Red City, Wku Student Affairs

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Special homecoming edition of the College Heights Herald.

  • Duvall, Tessa. The Best Homecomings Are Yet to Come
  • Crumbie, Trey. #RedCity Homecoming Theme Embraces the Big City
  • Koch, Cameron. Homecoming Parade Continues to Grow In Size
  • Osborne, Sam. Former Refrigerator Bowl Team Remains Close After 61 Years – Football
  • Mathews, Mackenzie. Alums Set to Get Married on Campus Homecoming Weekend – Kyle Norris, Azlisya Ismail
  • O’Neal, Arla. Give Me Justin Moore: Rising Country Artist Headlines Homecoming Concert
  • WKU Homecoming 2013 Schedule
  • WKU to Induct Four Members to Athletics Hall of Fame – Romeo Crennel, James Edwards, Brandi Carey, Curtiss Long
  • French, …


Allen County, Kentucky - Tax Records (Mss 483), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Allen County, Kentucky - Tax Records (Mss 483), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 483. Tax records for Allen County, Kentucky for 1821, 1824 and 1831, showing taxpayer’s name, categories of taxable property, assessed value, and militia district captain.


Street, James William, 1858-1944 (Mss 478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Street, James William, 1858-1944 (Mss 478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 478. Account books and journals of James William Street, recording his activities and local events, primarily in Henderson and Lyon counties in Kentucky. He also records the 1908-1909 activities of the Night Riders in the region.


Graham, Robert Duke, 1900-1984 (Mss 473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2013

Graham, Robert Duke, 1900-1984 (Mss 473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 473. Correspondence and scrapbooks of Robert D. Graham, Democratic mayor of Bowling Green, Kentucky from 1960-1963 and 1968-1971. The materials mostly document his public career, but some personal papers, including those of his wife Edith, are included.


Poe Family Papers (Sc 1116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2013

Poe Family Papers (Sc 1116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1116. Chiefly letters to James E. Poe, a Warren County, Kentucky native, who later lived in Colorado and Washington Territory, from his family in Kentucky. They write of crops, weather, and their health. They also ask Jim to lead a sober life and consider returning home. Evidently Poe went west after a run-in with the law concerning the making of illegal alcohol. Also, data related to the collection.


Artists In Residence - Union County (Fa 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2013

Artists In Residence - Union County (Fa 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 612. Project conducted in Union County, Kentucky to identify and utilize local folk artists in county elementary schools. Folklorist Amy Davis and fieldworker/folk artist Sue Massek interviewed local folk artists and performers. Afterwards they made presentations in schools about the information they collected and invited some of the artists to perform and/or demonstrate.


Parks, Sherman, B. 1890? (Sc 1006), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Parks, Sherman, B. 1890? (Sc 1006), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1006. Letters, 1933 (2), written by Sherman Parks, Madisonville, Kentucky, to Joseph F. Garnett, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Parks, as an officer in the Hopkins County and Kentucky Colored Independent Voters Leagues, requests assistance, including monetary aid to promote the recruitment of African- Americans to Kentucky’s Democratic Party.


Carter, Chillon Conway, 1830-1891 (Mss 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Carter, Chillon Conway, 1830-1891 (Mss 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescripts of selected material for Manuscripts Collection 112. Correspondence, chiefly written by Monroe County, Kentucky native Chillon Conway Carter, to his wife, Lucinda E. and his two daughters Nancy G. and Louisa A., during the Civil War. Also includes letters written to Carter by his brother, John B. Carter, who lived in White County, Illinois.


Boaz, Peggy Bradley, B. 1951 (Sc 979), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Boaz, Peggy Bradley, B. 1951 (Sc 979), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 979. Thesis titled, “The Oral Folk History Surrounding the Life of William Bernard ‘Big Six’ Henderson,” written by Peggy Bradley Boaz for Western Kentucky University’s Folk Studies Program, 1976. Also associated newspaper clippings, 1978, 1987 (2).


Ua12/2/33 Whips & Chains, Wku Association For The Study Of African American Life & History Feb 2013

Ua12/2/33 Whips & Chains, Wku Association For The Study Of African American Life & History

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Invitation to first WKU Association for the Study of African American Life & History event entitled Whips & Chains.


Ua12/2/33 Black History Month, Wku Association For The Study Of African American Life & History Feb 2013

Ua12/2/33 Black History Month, Wku Association For The Study Of African American Life & History

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Poster announcing events scheduled for Black History Month at WKU.


Green County, Kentucky - Records (Sc 775), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Green County, Kentucky - Records (Sc 775), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 775. Photocopies of Kentucky state militia captaincy commission of Daniel Williams, which was signed by Governor Christopher Greenup, 1805; and broadside informing slave owners to enroll their slaves in Greensburg, Kentucky, 1863.


Ua1b1/7 Wku Ceremonies, Dedications, Groundbreakings, Wku Archives Jan 2013

Ua1b1/7 Wku Ceremonies, Dedications, Groundbreakings, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records regarding special ceremonies, dedications, groundbreakings not already housed in a particular office.