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Interview With Reubin Vincent (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1987

Interview With Reubin Vincent (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Reubin Vincent conducted by Kelly A. Lally on 26 August 1987. From folk studies student project about the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, and concerning experiences of twenty former CCC enrollees from the four camps at Mammoth Cave and five other related people.

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Interview With Donald Hazellett Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1987

Interview With Donald Hazellett Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an oral history interview done with Donald Hazellett regarding Mammoth Cave, particularly the "New Discovery" of portion of the cave in the late-1930s.

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Interview With Kathryn Kadel Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1987

Interview With Kathryn Kadel Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an oral history interview done with Kathryn Kadel in 1987 related to her husband's work in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Mammoth Cave in the 1930s. Her husband, Richard Kadel, was commander of Camp 516.

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Interview With Albert "Shorty" Coats Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1987

Interview With Albert "Shorty" Coats Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an oral history interview done with Shorty Coats in 1987 related to his work in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Mammoth Cave in the 1930s.

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Interview With Gilbert Sanders Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1987

Interview With Gilbert Sanders Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an oral history interview done with Gilbert Sanders in 1987 related to his work in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Mammoth Cave in the 1930s.

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Interview With George Childress Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1987

Interview With George Childress Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an oral history interview done with Georgie Childress in 1987 related to his work in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Mammoth Cave in the 1930s.

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Interview With Sherman Moffitt Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1987

Interview With Sherman Moffitt Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an oral interview done with Sherman Moffitt related to his work in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Mammoth Cave in the 1930s and his subsequent career as a minister.

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Interview With Vernon Wells Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1987

Interview With Vernon Wells Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an oral interview done with Vernon Wells, b. 1914, as part of a project entitled "A History of the Civilian Conservation Corps at Mammoth Cave National Park" (FA 81). Wells discusses his experiences as a CCC worker. He served as a park ranger. He also discusses the various methods of land purchases used to acquire property for Mammoth Cave National Park. The transcription of tape 2 of this interview is attached under "Additional Files."

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Interview With H. B. Jackson (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1987

Interview With H. B. Jackson (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with H. B. Jackson conducted by Kelly A. Lally on 9 July 1987. From folk studies student project about the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, and concerning experiences of twenty former CCC enrollees from the four camps at Mammoth Cave and five other related people.

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Interview With Ellis M. Jones (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1987

Interview With Ellis M. Jones (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Ellis M. Jones conducted by Kelly A. Lally on 1 July 1987. From folk studies student project about the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, and concerning experiences of twenty former CCC enrollees from the four camps at Mammoth Cave and five other related people.

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Interview With B. B. Oliver, Beverly Oliver, Rusty Oliver, And Benjamin "Ted" Vontress (Fa 80), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 1987

Interview With B. B. Oliver, Beverly Oliver, Rusty Oliver, And Benjamin "Ted" Vontress (Fa 80), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with B. B. Oliver, Beverly Oliver, Rusty Oliver, and Benjamin "Ted" Vontress conducted by Kenneth Todd Gipson r on 30 June 1987. From folk studies student project concerning Carroll Monument Company employees, their occupation and related stories.

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Interview With James Dennison (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 1987

Interview With James Dennison (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with James Dennison conducted by Kelly A. Lally on 27 June 1987. From folk studies student project about the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, and concerning experiences of twenty former CCC enrollees from the four camps at Mammoth Cave and five other related people.

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Interview With Charles Hobert Vincent (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 1987

Interview With Charles Hobert Vincent (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Charles Hobert Vincent conducted by Kelly A. Lally on 24 June 1987. From folk studies student project about the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, and concerning experiences of twenty former CCC enrollees from the four camps at Mammoth Cave and five other related people.

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Interview With Smith Meredith (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 1987

Interview With Smith Meredith (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Interview conducted by Kelly Lally with Smith Meredith about his work with the Civilian Conservation Corps at Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. This interview is a part of Folklife Archives Project 81.

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The Blankety-Blank Of Bear Creek Camp: A Rhetorical Analysis Of A Folk Drama, Gregory Hansen Mar 1987

The Blankety-Blank Of Bear Creek Camp: A Rhetorical Analysis Of A Folk Drama, Gregory Hansen

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A rhetorical theory of folklore was used to interpret how summer camp staffers use a folk drama as a means of identification and as a type of artistic expression. The performance was analyzed for ethnographic information using Kenneth Burke's theory of dramatism and for artistic techniques using Burke's theory of the psychology of audience. The dramatistic pentad contextualized the performance, and this information was analyzed for motives through the delineation of dramatistic ratios. The skit's syntagmatic structure was outlined using Burke's description of five aspects of form. The analysis demonstrates that meaning is emergent through both the content and form …

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Interview With Kelcy Driskill (Fa 35), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 1986

Interview With Kelcy Driskill (Fa 35), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Kelcy Driskell conducted by Amy Kitchens on 26 September 1986. From folk studies student project with an interview with Kelcy Driskell concerning agriculture in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Interview With Irene Taylor Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1986

Interview With Irene Taylor Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Irene Taylor conducted by Christopher Carey for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." In this brief interview Taylor discusses a general store in Hancock County, Kentucky called the Duncan store as well as one-room schools and the consolidation of schools. She also mentions the Chestnut Grove school in Hancock County.

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Interview With Mittie Dame Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1986

Interview With Mittie Dame Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Mittie Dame conducted by Judi Hetrick for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Dame discusses her life and times including information about growing up in Calhoun, McLean County, Kentucky, her early marriage, entertainment, rural electrification, radios, refrigerators, social life and customs, Halloween pranks, moonshining, and farming.

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Interview With Oda Shouse, Sr. And Clara Shouse Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1986

Interview With Oda Shouse, Sr. And Clara Shouse Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Oda Shouse, Sr. and Clara Shouse conducted by Keith Smith for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Mr. Shouse does most of the speaking. He discusses his life and times including information about floods, the Great Depression, tobacco farming, rural medicine, rural electrification, automobiles and telephones.

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Interview With Mary Bryant (Benton) Fitts Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1986

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.

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Interview With Gwendolyn Johnston Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1986

Interview With Gwendolyn Johnston Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Gwendolyn Johnston conducted by Keith Smith for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949."   Johnston discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in West Louisville, Kentucky, education, games, a tornado that struck Louisville in the 1890s, automobiles, the Ku Klux Klan, Ronald Wilson Reagan, and parochial schools.

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Interview With Allyene Gregory Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1986

Interview With Allyene Gregory Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Allyene Gregory conducted by Steve Vied for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Gregory discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Sorgho, Daviess County, Kentucky, education, childhood games, her father's farm, African Americans, social customs and historic events in the community, as well as her teaching career.

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Interview With Lattie Edds And Essie Thomason Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

Interview With Lattie Edds And Essie Thomason Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Lattie Edds and Essie Thomason conducted by Judi Hetrick for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." They discuss their life and times, including information about growing up in McLean County and Hancock County, Kentucky, social life and customs, weaving, childhood chores and games, teachers and teaching, one-room schools, farms and farming, courtship, televisions, radios, the Great Depression, floods, and influenza.

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Interview With Lena Stolsworth Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

Interview With Lena Stolsworth Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Lena Stolsworth conducted by Kim Parson for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Stolsworth discusses her life and times, including information about growing up on a farm in Ohio County, Kentucky, education, social life and customs, floods, the Great Depression and World War II.

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Interview With Otis & Essie Stevens Regarding Their Lives (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

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.

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Gregory, Corinne Taylor, B. 1904 (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

Gregory, Corinne Taylor, B. 1904 (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Corinne Taylor Gregory conducted by Charlotte Postlewaite for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Gregory discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Ohio County, Kentucky, the Great Depression, horse racing, company stores, coal towns, courtship, and social life and customs.

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Interview With Charlie Earl Coy Regarding His Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

Interview With Charlie Earl Coy Regarding His Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Charlie Earl Coy conducted by Keith Smith for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Coy discusses his life and times, including information about his childhood in Daviess County, Kentucky, farms and farming, the Great Depression, tobacco, social life and customs, airplanes, radios, television, tractors and other farm equipment, women's suffrage and influenza.

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Interview With Gayle Carver Regarding His Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 1986

Interview With Gayle Carver Regarding His Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Gayle Carver conducted by Joe Adams for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Carver discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, education, businesses, childhood chores, his phonograph record collection, World War II, the 1937 flood, the Great Depression, the first automobile and airplane he remembered and information about popular music of the era.

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Horn, Sandra (Simunaci), B. 1946 (Fa 125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 1986

Horn, Sandra (Simunaci), B. 1946 (Fa 125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid, full-text scan of paper, and interview (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 125. Interview with psychic practitioner, Terry Langford of Bowling Green, Kentucky, discussing supernatural occurrences in the Kentucky Building at Western Kentucky University. Includes attachments.

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Roberts, Lynne (Fa 128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 1986

Roberts, Lynne (Fa 128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 128. Pictorial essay about the art of Bertha T. Skaggs, dollmaker and quilter of Hart County, Kentucky.

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