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Community Scholars Program - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Fa 724), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2014

Community Scholars Program - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Fa 724), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Porject 724. This collection contains information and documentation about Community Scholars Program’s workshops held in Bowling Green, Kentucky during the spring and summer of 2005.


Martin, Jerry W. (Sc 2871), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2014

Martin, Jerry W. (Sc 2871), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2871. “A Dark and Bloody Ground: A Synopsis of the Lives of Micajah and Wiley Harpe,” by Dr. Jerry W. Martin. The illustrated paper, the basis for a presentation to the E.Q.B. Club of Bowling Green, Kentucky, recounts the lives of Kentucky outlaws Micajah and Wiley Harpe.


Barbecue In Western Kentucky (Fa 673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2014

Barbecue In Western Kentucky (Fa 673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives project 673. This collection features oral history interviews conducted by Robin Borczon about the methods of preparing barbecue in western Kentucky for a WKU foodways class project.


Jfk Memory Project At Wku (Mss 491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2014

Jfk Memory Project At Wku (Mss 491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and full text of remembrances (Click on Additional Files), photographs, and oral history interviews for Manuscripts Collection 491. Materials collected during a commemorative project related to a campaign visit John F. Kennedy made to Bowling Green, Kentucky in October 1960 and to his November 1963 assassination. The core of the collection is a set of remembrances that were sent into the Department of Library Special Collections, WKU about both events. Other items include oral history interviews (8), photos (36), contemporary news clippings as well as clippings about the project, a scrapbook of post-assassination clippings, and assorted other ephemera …


A Spatial Assessment Of The Go Bg Transit Services In Bowling Green, Kentucky, Frank Aryee May 2014

A Spatial Assessment Of The Go Bg Transit Services In Bowling Green, Kentucky, Frank Aryee

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The decision to live in a particular place, accept a job at a distant location, where to go shopping or purchase groceries, and many other similar decisions are all largely influenced by the availability of transportation. As such, it is important that everyone who requires transportation can have access. However, certain population segments, such as low income earners, are less likely to own cars due to the cost involved. There are others who may be impaired physically or have other difficulties that may prevent them from driving. Access to transportation is essential for people of all backgrounds and social statuses. …


Bundles For America - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2813), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2014

Bundles For America - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2813), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2813. Meeting minutes of Bundles for America, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from 24 January to 14 March 1945. Includes a draft thank-you letter to a sponsor summarizing the organization’s accomplishments since 1941; also includes a 1943 clipping outlining the history and work of the organization in knitting garments, salvaging metal and clothing, and making up toiletry kits for British and American soldiers and their families.