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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 17, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 8, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Ua1d Mary Clarke, Wku Human Resources

WKU Administration Documents

Personnel file of professor Mary Clarke, includes correspondence and newspaper clippings.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 72, No. 49, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Regular features include:

• Just a Second
• Campus Line
• For the Record / Crime Reports
• People Poll
• Sports
• Diversions
• Movie Reviews
• Classifieds

Articles in this issue:

• Pretrial Postponed Because of Psychiatric Evaluation – Ray Biggerstaff
• Olmsted, Mikki. Two Western Employees Arrested – Eric Lindgren, Beverly Pruett
• Lynn, Kelley. Family Bluegrass Band – The New Generation Bluegrass Band, Whittinghill Family
• Batcheldor, Matt. Student Government Association Candidates Preparing for Elections
• Lanter, Charlie. Sorority’s Showcase Spotlights Western Student’s Talent – Delta Sigma Theta
• Higher Education Plan Can Work
• Brown, Karen. Returning to Church, …

June Gutmanis's Review Of Gloria L. Cronin's Edition Of Harriet Ne's Tales Of Molokai: The Voice Of Harriet Ne. Collected And Prepared By Gloria L. Cronin, June Gutmanis

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

"Parting Friends": Southeastern Kentucky Funeral Customs. 1880-1915, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel (Mcguire)

SCL Faculty and Staff Publications

At the turn of the twentieth century, southeastern Kentucky remained a sparsely settled region where traditional values abounded. Throughout society, funeral rites and changes in them evince values of family, community, and religion. Visitors to the area, whether settlement-school teachers, preachers, or researchers, vividly described deathbeds, burials, and funeral occasions which illuminate local values.

Reflecting the writers' urban prejudices, these Journals and publications along with contemporary newspaper accounts provide insight into southeastern Kentucky mourning customs during the years 1880 to 1915. Although the turn of the twentieth century brought change in the way urban dwellers dealt with mourning, their mountain …

Ua68/6/1 Broomsedge Chronicles: Farm Living In South Central Kentucky, Wku English, Wku Glasgow

WKU Administration Documents

A collection of essays written by English 100 Freshman Composition and English 200 Introduction to Literature students attending WKU Glasgow from 1983 through 1992 taught by Loretta Murrey. Student authors are: Joyce Alford, Joyce Amer, Jeff Ballard, Sandie Barrick, Jerry Bean, Shela Bingham, Brent Bledsoe, Steven Bunch, Billy Carver, Angela Cowan, Karen Decker, Betty Dillahay, Dibbie Dilley, Amy Doyel, Jeff Duncan, Craig Emmitt, Barbara England, Kathy Fancher, Amanda Gillon, Michelle Glover, Jeanelle Gooch, Faye Johnson, Celena Martin, Sonia Martin, Tracy Mathews, Ila Moody, Angela Morris, William Myatt, Judy Parker, Dorothean Powell, Maria Pulanco, Diane Rather, Jennifer Reneau, LaDarra Rich, Pam …

Folk Custom As A Barometer Of Social Change In A Tennessee Community, Chad Berry

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Using the techniques of oral history, residents of the Cypress Creeks area of southwestern middle Tennessee were questioned about their perceptions of the social change since 1940. In that year, the National Park Service hired men in the area to help snake out logs for the Natchez Trace Parkway's right-of-way. For most men in the area, the temporary positions on the Trace were the first "public" jobs they ever had. After these positions were no longer needed, outmigration brought residents north to factory-cities; thus, the building of the parkway remains a watershed in residents' memories as the benchmark when change …

Interview With Mary Bryant (Benton) Fitts Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Mary Brant (Benton) Fitts conducted by Karen Owen for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Fitts discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Utica and Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky, her children, social life and customs, race relations, World War II, and sundry other topics. Mrs. Fitts was a housewife and mother of two.

Interview With Otis & Essie Stevens Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Essie (Crawford) Stevens and Otis Stevens conducted by Charlotte Postlewaite for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." The Stevens discuss their life and times, including information about growing up in Ohio County, Kentucky, education, one-room schools, farms and farming, teaching in a one-room school, food preservation and preparation, laundering, death, telephones and radios.

Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - F Topics, Lowell Harrison

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Notecards created by Lowell Harrison while researching his book Western Kentucky University. The cards transcribed below are for 259 topics beginning with F ranging from Faculty - Hunt to Future of Education.

Expressions Of Grief In South Central Kentucky, 1870-1910, Sue Lynn Arnold

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Through the ages, survivors have experienced loss due to the deaths of their contemporaries. Between 1870 and 1910, the people of south central Kentucky (Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Logan, Monroe, Simpson and Warren counties) used significant expressions of grief. Combining oral history with primary correspondence, journals, scrapbooks and mementos, this study determines the importance that area residents placed on deathbed accounts, the care given the deceased's body, the funeral service, obituaries, resolutions of respect, memorial poetry, condolence letters, photography, memorial cards and pictures, hair wreaths, mourning attire and jewelry, the gravesite, and the tombstone. In almost every instance, south central …

Ronald S. Jackson's Review Of Brian Sutton-Smith's A History Of Children's Play: The New Zealand Playground, 1840-1950, Ronald S. Jackson

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

A Sourcebook For The Interpretation Of Traditional Dance By Outdoor Museums & Historic Sites, Jan Alm

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Folklife scholars often produce work which is valuable to outdoor museums and historic sites. Folklife scholars deal with functional, contextual, emic, and interdisciplinary studies--all approaches which produce valuable interpretive data for museums and sites. This thesis is an example of folklife work designed for use in the museum field.

Outdoor museums and historic sites are increasingly involved with the interpretation of social and emotional life. Because it is a social and emotional event, dance can be a valuable part of this interpretation.

Sites and museums developing programs of traditional dance interpretation may find it helpful to follow several steps: 1.) …

Tinsley Bottom Tennessee: An Historical Reconstruction Utilizing Oral Narrative Traditions, Rebecca Morse

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Tinsley Bottom lies adjacent to the Cumberland River in Jackson and Clay Counties in north central Tennessee. The rich rolling bottomland totaling approximately two thousand acres on the south bank of the Cumberland River lured several families to purchase land and take residence there in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

The history of Tinsley Bottom is not found in written records or annals of Tennessee history. No person of reknown sprang from the cultural context of this community. Yet tales are told of how Daniel Boone hunted in the Bottom and slept in a cave overlooking the River, and …

The Paper Repertoire Of The Students In One Elementary School, Ruby Rufty

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This collection project is concerned with traditional paper objects made by students in fifteen classes in one elementary school in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Chapter I describes the school and classroom environments and the procedures followed during the collection project. Chapter II differentiates between the play and ornamental items collected, describes the different items and their variants made by the students, and attempts to show what persons (relatives, teachers, other children) or other factors (mass media, the students' environment) affected the paper items made by students. Chapter III statistically evaluates the collected paper items according to the sex, race, and grade …

The Oral Folk History Surrounding The Life Of William Bernard "Big Six" Henderson, Peggy Boaz

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The oral folk history of William Bernard "Big Six" Henderson is unique in that Henderson himself has been a contributing factor in keeping the tales of his moonshining experiences in the oral traditions of distinct areas of Kentucky, especially Cumberland County. Interviewing Henderson and apprehended and non-apprehended moonshiners allowed speculation into the concept that Henderson was indeed a folk hero. Using Dixon Wector's requirements for heroes, the hero performing unselfish service, acquiring a nickname, obtaining sympathy for handicaps, struggles, and failures, and reaching hero status after death, and providing examples of Henderson's encounters with moonshiners, verifies Henderson's hero status, except …

Ua1d Kenneth Clarke, Wku Human Resources

WKU Administration Documents

Personnel file of professor Kenneth Clarke, includes correspondence and newspaper clippings.

The Carter Family: Traditional Sources For Song, Margaret Bulger

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The recorded repertory of the original Carter Family was analyzed for traditional influences. Of the 119 songs examined, it was found that fifty-five, roughly one-fourth of their total repertory, have definite roots in one or more traditional sources. The Carters employed traditional texts within their repertory throughout their professional career. Three genres of song were analyzed: sentimental songs, religious songs, and ballads. Of these, sentimental songs was the largest category with 113 songs. These songs were found to be remarkably similar in thematic content and moral sensibilities to Victorian parlor songs (ca. 1860-1910). The religious songs were shown to be …

Tobacco Farming: The Persistence Of Tradition, Eugene Umberger Jr.

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The culture of tobacco has been associated with the history of Kentucky almost from the beginning and remains to this day a vital force in the state’s economy. In this age of scientific and technological advances – of increasing automation – we find that in tobacco farming, hand labor still figures prominently in the production of a major staple crop. This has resulted in the retention of traditional method, technology and terminology, long since lost in the culture of other crops which lent themselves more easily to mechanization.

The study is divided into three parts. Chapter I deals briefly with …

The Cedar Grove Community In Oral Folk History, Ada Parker

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The thesis was originally done for the Center for Intercultural & Folk Studies which no longer exists.

The Beeson Farmstead: A Study Of The Functional Aspects Of A Black Farm In The Richland Community, Annelen Archbold

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study documents the lifestyle on a small, prosperous black farmstead in the Richland community of Butler County, Kentucky. It is based on extensive fieldwork and interviews conducted with Percy Beeson, owner of the farm for aver fifty years. The result of the fieldwork and interviews was the documentation of how this farmstead, maintained without mechanical farm equipment, worked as a functional unit on a year-round basis.

As a functional unit, the Beeson farmstead is described in terms of the Beeson family and their ownership of the farm and the breakdown of the property into two dependent units. In the …

Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 40, No. 2, Wku Alumni Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Quarterly magazine created for WKU alumni. Regular features are Hilltopics, Sports, Alumni Newsgrams and Notes and In Memoriam. This issue includes:

• Graduate School (College) is On Its Way
• Evening Class is Thataway
• The Hilltopper Hundred to the Rescue
• ETV - Keep Watching, It's All in Color
• Student Interns Learn How Government Works
• Significant Statements: The New Year Begins
• Good News for Fishermen: Reservoir Research
• There it Was! Your Homecoming - 1971
• Performing Arts Illuminate the Campus Scene
• Discovery 1 - Uncovering the Kentucky of Antiquity
• Discovery 2 - Reviving the Heritage of Kentucky
• Discovery 3 - The Intercultural Studies Program …

Letter From Harold C. Shank To Alfred L. Shoemaker, January 18, 1961, Harold C. Shank

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from Harold C. Shank addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated January 18, 1961. Within, Shank provides personal stories surrounding the holidays in Berks and Lancaster counties, including "Belsnickles," annual auctions, cherry trees and Santa Claus.

Note On Amish "Old Christmas", January 6, 1961, Unknown Author

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten note on the reverse of a newspaper clipping from the Ohio Daily Record entitled, "'Old Christmas' Today Is Serious 2nd Holiday For Amish Residents Of Area", by Clif Bushnell and dated January 6, 1961. The note speculates about whether the Amish have always used this date or whether it was influenced by changes in the calendar.

Outline For An Article On Apple Butter, Alfred L. Shoemaker

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten outline composed by Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated circa 1961. The list compiles various aspects of apple butter ranging from terminology and history to uses and appearances in rhymes and other literary forms.

Letter From Florence Baver To Alfred L. Shoemaker, August 10, 1960, Florence Baver

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed letter from Florence Baver to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated August 10, 1960. Within, the author provides various anecdotes from the Lehigh County region, including humor stories and naming lore.

Letter From W. A. Weller To Alfred L. Shoemaker, March 28, 1960, W. A. Weller

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from W. A. Weller addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated March 28, 1960. Within, Weller details the harmful consequences of working the farm on Ascension Day and Good Friday.

Letter From Lois Springer To The Pennsylvania Dutch Folklore Center, February 16, 1960, Lois Springer

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed letter from Lois Springer addressed to the Pennsylvania Dutch Folklore Center, dated February 16, 1960. Within, Springer inquires about an Amish bell she possesses in her personal collection and whether it found potential use in religious observations.

Notes From "Now And Then" Columns And The Devil In Bucks County, Alfred L. Shoemaker

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A set of handwritten notes from a newspaper column and The Devil in Bucks County, compiled and transcribed by Alfred L. Shoemaker, dating from circa 1960. Within, Shoemaker details a variety of topics ranging from a character known as the "rag peddler" to an old verse from Dr. Thomas Wood's lecture book.