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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.

Anderson, Linda Allen (Fa 130), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 130. "The People of the Capitol", an oral history project describing the history of Frankfort, Kentucky, and the citizens of the state capitol. This paper includes information about the Frankfort Penitentiary (1800-1937), the role of the state government in the lives of the people, and the various ethnic groups who settled there.

Interview With Rhonda Sue Kinchlow (Fa 12), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Rhonda Sue Kinchlow conducted by Gina Lloyce Kinchlow on 26 October 1984. From folk studies student project with interviews of three Kinchlow family members concerning African American middle class family life and Easter customs in New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana during the 1960s and 1970s.

Interview With Alex Mercedes Kelley (Donna Maria Kinchlow) (Fa 12), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Alex Mercedes Kelly (Donna Maria Kinchlow) conducted by Gina Lloyce Kinchlow on 26 October 1984. From folk studies student project with interviews of three Kinchlow family members concerning African American middle class family life and Easter customs in New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana during the 1960s and 1970s.

Interview With Fannie Lou (Wood) Kinchlow (Fa 12), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Fannie Lou (Wood) Kinchlow conducted by Gina Lloyce Kinchlow on 24 October 1984. From folk studies student project with interviews of three Kinchlow family members concerning African American middle class family life and Easter customs in New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana during the 1960s and 1970s.

Interview With Sarah Alice Marcum Roemer (Fa 7), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Sarah Alice Marcum Roemer conducted by Thomas Collier Hines, Jr. on 16 October 1984. From folk studies student project with interview of Alice Roemer discussing her life, including her childhood, education, work and family experiences, with special emphasis on Thanksgiving customs.

Interview With Carolyn Kay Williams Alexander (Fa 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Carolyn Kay Williams Alexander conducted by Gina Lloyce Kinchlow on 4 October 1984. From project about the experiences of Carolyn Kay (Williams) Alexander discussing education, family, social life, segregation, and "Juneteenth" and Emancipation Day celebrations in Texas. The audio interviews are archived in the Sound Archives.

Arnold, Thomas Cleveland, Jr., B. 1957 (Fa 102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 102. Project and paper entitled "Miss Mattie Makes Music." Paper and interviews, November 8 & 22, 1983, with black guitarists Mattie (Thomas) Crumbold Baldry, b.1895, of Adairville, Kentucky in Logan County. Includes information on her band, employment and family life.

Interview With Esther Magers Isbell (Fa 13), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Esther (Magers) Isbell conducted by Teresa Dolores Klimowicz on 27 September 1983. From project focusing on Esther Isbell, a folk artist and native of Barren County, Kentucky, with special attention on her biblical themed quilts. Isbell also discusses her various occupations and participation in community affairs.

Lewis, Lisa Claire (Fa 193), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 193. Paper written by Lewis entitled "Mur and Granddaddy: An Elderly Couple Adjusting to the City." Concerns her grandparents moving from their Todd County farm to Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, No. 1, Monroe H. Fabian, William T. Parsons, Robert F. Ulle, Karl J. R. Arndt, Barbara Reimensnyder

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Sulfur Inlay in Pennsylvania German Furniture
• "Orders What's to be Done at the Plantation": The Isaac Norris Farm Accounts, 1713-1734
• Blacks in Berks County, Pennsylvania: The Almshouse Records
• Teach, Preach, or Weave Stockings? The Trilemma of a Pennsylvania Scholar
• Annotated Bibliography of Pennsylvania Folk Medicine
• Pictures in the Home: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 49

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 25, No. 2, Marshall Joseph Becker, Robert F. Ulle, Victor C. Dieffenbach

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Shingle-Making: An Aspect of Early American Carpentry
• Popular Black Music in Nineteenth Century Philadelphia
• Powwowing among the Pennsylvania Germans
• Time in Traditional Culture - The Year Cycle: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 42

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 …

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 50, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

WKU Administration Documents

Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This show included Earl Moore, Gordon Wilson, William Lukes, Dale Grabill, Jimmie Arnold, Randall Atcher, Lavelton Dye and Jimmie Rutan.