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Folklorist In The Parks (Fa 608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklorist In The Parks (Fa 608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 608. Project conducted in communities surrounding Jenny Wiley, Kenlake, Natural Bridge, Pennyrile Forest and Pine Mountain State Resort Parks to identify and utilize local folk artists and performers. Materials include administrative papers and slides.
Folklorist In The Parks - Pine Mountain State Resort Park (Fa 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklorist In The Parks - Pine Mountain State Resort Park (Fa 607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archves Project 607. Project conducted in Bell County, Kentuky and Pine Mountain State Resort Park to identify and utilize local folk artists and performers. Materials include field notes, a daily activity log, and audio interviews on cassette tapes with traditional artists.
Folklorist In The Parks - Natural Bridge State Resort Park (Fa 605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklorist In The Parks - Natural Bridge State Resort Park (Fa 605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 605. Project conducted in Powell, Wolfe and Lee Counties and Natural Bridge State Resort Park to identify and utilize local folk artists and performers. Materials include fieldnotes, promotional materials, and audio interviews on cassette tapes with traditional artists.
Folklorist In The Parks - Kenlake State Resort Park (Fa 604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklorist In The Parks - Kenlake State Resort Park (Fa 604), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid for Folklife Archives Project 604. Project conducted in Marshall County and Kenlake State Resort Park to identify and utilize local folk artists and performers. Materials include a project summary, programming information, biographical sketches, a directory of folk artists/performers, public relations materials, audio interviews on cassette tapes with traditional artists, as well as illustrative material. The interview with Glen Gough (Box 2 Folder 12) can be accessed by clicking on the "Additional File" below.
Warren County Kentucky Homemakers Project (Fa 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County Kentucky Homemakers Project (Fa 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 82. These interviews examine the lives of rural women through their membership in the Warren County Homemakers Extension Program. Former extension agents and members recall their experiences in the organization and the significance of the education programs in preparing them to adapt to new technologies and to move from farm life to public work.
Folklorist In The Parks - Jenny Wiley State Resort Park (Fa 603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklorist In The Parks - Jenny Wiley State Resort Park (Fa 603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 603. Materials documenting "Folklorist in the Parks,” a project conducted In Floyd, Johnson and Pike counties and Jenny Wiley State Resort Park to identify and utilize local folk artists and performers. Materials include informant data sheets, field notes, audio interviews, photograph negatives and slides with indices and administrative papers.
Ravelings (Fa 752), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ravelings (Fa 752), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 752. Clippings of "Ravelings" column from "Harland (Kentucky) Daily Enterprise" and "Corbin (Kentucky) Daily Tribune" with collected mountain superstitions, customs, and folkways.
Leeds, Steven, B. 1968 (Sc 864), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Leeds, Steven, B. 1968 (Sc 864), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 864. Letter, 24 May 1996, written by Steven Leeds, Lantana, Florida, to Kentucky Library and Museum, Bowling Green, Kentucky, detailing the finding of Indian burial sites in Bracken County, Kentucky, and giving other data about the burial sites. May be viewed by administrative permission only.
Folk Arts In Rural Libraries Project (Fa 602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folk Arts In Rural Libraries Project (Fa 602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 602. Materials documenting the Folk Arts in Rural Libraries Project conducted in the central Kentucky. Materials include lists of folk artists, slides documenting folk art festivals, slide inventories and administrative papers.
Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Mss 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Mss 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 445. Correspondence, published and unpublished writing, and research of Alexander Gordon Wilson, faculty member in the English department of Western Kentucky University from 1915-1959. Includes genealogical and autobiographical material as well as extensive research data and writing on the ornithology of Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky, on folklore and linguistics, and on the ornithology and folkways of the Mammoth Cave region of Edmonson County, Kentucky.
Brown, Mark, B. 1976 (Fa 751), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown, Mark, B. 1976 (Fa 751), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and photograph for Folklife Archives Project 751. Interview conducted by Mark Brown with luthier Steve Cooley, Louisville, Kentucky. Cooley discusses how he makes and repairs guitars and banjos at the Guitar Emporium in Louisville. He also relates information about playing with Bill Monroe and other musicians in Kentucky.
Burgoo Project, 1995-2005 (Fa 600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Burgoo Project, 1995-2005 (Fa 600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 600. This collection consists chiefly of video documentation related to the preparation of burgoo, a stew generally consisting of vegetables and wild game. Several of the videos included were filmed at Claylick United Methodist Church in Anderson County, Kentucky. The collection also includes slides taken at a burgoo dinner at Claylick Church as well as a professionally produced DVD titled “Burgoo!: Mythical Stew of Kentucky.” Lawrenceburg, Kentucky is the site of the annual Anderson County Burgoo Festival.
Williams, Donna (Fa 595), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Williams, Donna (Fa 595), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 595. Paper titled “Turning Legend to Song,” written by Donna Williams for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. The paper analyzes the propensity of songwriters to rely upon tales and legends for inspiration in the composition of songs. Williams focuses on Boone County, Kentucky’s legend of Skull Bone Cave.
Thornton, Rachel (Fa 596), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thornton, Rachel (Fa 596), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 596. Paper titled “Quilting” written by Rachel Thornton for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Williams details the quilting methods used by Barren County quilter Marlene “Chris” Woods. Thornton conveys Woods’ passion for hand quilting rather than machine quilting as well as the intimate connection and personal meaning that quilts embody for those who make and use them.
Parsley, Rachel, B. 1991 (Fa 593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Parsley, Rachel, B. 1991 (Fa 593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper and two transcripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project FA 593. Paper titled “Folk Medicine in the Mammoth Cave Area” written by Rachel Parsley for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Parsley details folk remedies and folk medicine of the communities in the Mammoth Cave Region of south central Kentucky. Parsley’s research centers around interviews with her father, Andrew G. Parsley, Jr., and an Edmonson County resident, Bertha Skaggs, a well-known local practitioner of folk remedies. In addition to her interviews, Parsley relies on information collected by a …
Williams, Camilla Reynolds, 1923-2005 (Sc 790), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Williams, Camilla Reynolds, 1923-2005 (Sc 790), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 790. Photocopies of story written by Camilla Reynolds Williams entitled, “Ma Motley’s Robbery Tale,” 1863?, which supposedly occurred in Warren County, Kentucky. She won second place in the 1971 Kentucky Woman’s Club Folklore Contest for this entry. Also Hays family genealogical chart prepared by Joseph S. Hays.
Arnold, Andrew (Fa 592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Arnold, Andrew (Fa 592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 592. This paper, titled “Raising Tobacco”, was written by Andrew Arnold for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Arnold details the process of raising tobacco from selecting the proper location for the crop to delivering the final product to market. The paper is largely based upon Arnold’s personal interview with Lewisburg, Kentucky farmer, Thomas Nelson.
Squires, Bailey Marie, B. 1989 (Fa 589), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Squires, Bailey Marie, B. 1989 (Fa 589), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 589. [Folklore materials classified by genre] Information collected by Bailey Marie Squires related to folklore genres for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Hanratty, Suzanne (Funk) (Fa 588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hanratty, Suzanne (Funk) (Fa 588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archvies Project 588. Maydelle (Johnson) Funk, registered nurse, and her husband, physician Jesse Trusdale Funk, detail their genealogy and personal history in interviews conducted by their daughter, Suzanne (Funk) Hanratty. The Funks lived and worked in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes transcription and news clippings about a Girl Scout troop in Bowling Green led by Mrs. Funk.
Funk, Jesse Trusdale, 1912-2001 (Fa 587), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Funk, Jesse Trusdale, 1912-2001 (Fa 587), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 587. Doctor Jesse Trusdale Funk outlines his genealogy and recalls family history and his personal history from childhood through retirement. Funk also details his experiences as a medical student at Vanderbilt University Medical School and his fifty-five years of medical practice in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes transcription.