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Cervelli, Luanne Beth (Fa 376), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 376. Interview with John Buell Edmonds conducted by LuAnne Beth Cervelli on 18 September 1988. Edmonds, a notable gospel singer from Bowling Green, Kentucky discusses his experiences performing gospel music, his involvement in recording and promoting gospel groups, his relationship with the local choir, and the current state of gospel music.

Miller, Marcia (Fa 1126), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1126. Student paper titled “Farm Methods” in which Marcia Miller speaks with Henry Oliphant, a Bowling Green, Kentucky, native, about traditional farming practices . Topics covered include raising tobacco, harvesting hay, clearing top fields, and breaking new ground. Paper includes typed transcript of recorded interview.

Alexander, Patricia (Fa 1123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1123. Student paper titled “Folk Beliefs” in which Patricia Alexander gathers together a collection of old wives’ tales, proverbs, and superstitions. Beliefs were provided by Alexander’s grandmother, Rebecca Alexander, who was a Warren County, Kentucky native.

Hester, Lanny Ray, 1950-2015 (Fa 1120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1120. Student folk studies project titled: "Traditional Farming Methods & Tools," which includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of traditional farming using horses or mules in Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a description of the traditional tack or implement, photo, informant's name, and text classification.

Cavin, Debbie And Sharman Mullins (Fa 1119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1119. Student paper titled “The Stewart Farm” in which Debbie Cavin and Sharman Mulls provide an expansive look at the homestead of Garrett Graham Stewart, a native of Warren County, Kentucky. The log house, which was built by Stewart in 1850, was originally part of a 400-acre farmstead. Cavin and Mullins collected their historical data from Bill and Bell Muth, a couple who were in the process of renovating and restoring the Stewart home. In addition to a history of the land, Cavin and Mullins also provide commentary on the home’s various architectural …

Johnson, Melinda (Fa 1115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1115. Student folk studies project titled: “Techniques and Tools in Making Fishnets with Emphasis on the Hoop Net,” which includes descriptions of the traditional process to make hoop fish nets in McLean County and Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of a type of fishnet, traditional practice, tool, illustration, photo and informant’s name.

Leopold, Beth (Fa 1113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1113. Student folk studies project titled: Smith’s Grove and Miscellaneous Tales” which includes survey sheets with descriptions of the traditional belief about the naming of Smiths Grove in Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of the belief, informant’s name, address, and motif index classification. A second small project by Leopold includes survey sheets of folk tales told by her grandmother, Rosa Leopold, in Jefferson County, Kentucky.

Chance, Nancy Fowler (Fa 1110), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1110. Student folk studies project titled: “Butter making” which includes survey sheets with descriptions of the traditional butter making process in Allen County and Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of pictured equipment, traditional practice, belief and motif index number.

Hensley, Jennifer Lynn (Fa 351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 351. Paper titled "The Music Barn" in which Lynn Hensley discusses the founding of The Music Barn, a local music venue in Warren County, Kentucky. Hensley's main informant is Joe Marshall, a country music artist, community organizer, and owner of The Music Barn.

Harrison, Joyce (Fa 1067), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Folklife Archives Project FA 1067. Paper titled “Designs and Ornamentation in Local Commercial Architecture” in which Joyce Harrison explores the architectural styles and patterns of small-town business exteriors. Paper is based on information collected by Harrison from Frank D. Cain, Jr., a locally registered architect, and contains color photographs of building exteriors in several counties across south central Kentucky.

Woolsey, Kennaird E. (Fa 1093), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1093. Student folk studies project titled: “Epitaphs,” which includes survey sheets of gravestone epitaphs organized by theme in Barren County, Edmonson County and Warren County, Kentucky. Survey sheets may include the epitaph, location and text classification along with the rubbing.

Taylor, Emmie (Fa 1087), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1087. Student folk studies project titled: “Saw Filing,” which includes a description of filing tools and their uses in Warren County, Kentucky. Survey sheets include a photo, name, use, description, and text classification.

Beckner, Azle Hill (Fa 1083), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1083. Student folk studies project titled: “Shoe Repairing: A Folk Craft,” which includes a description of shoe repair practices along with photos of tools in Warren County, Kentucky. A second student project has survey sheets that may include informant’s name and address, superstitions, riddles, tales or rhymes.

Robinson, David (Fa 1071), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1071). Paper titled “A Study of Graveyards in Kentucky” by David Robinson based on a survey of five cemeteries in Warren County, Logan County and McCracken County, Kentucky. Robinson makes general statements about each cemetery and the people buried there based on the cemetery’s location, monuments, epitaphs, and knowledge of the families buried there.

Stinnett, Glee (Fa 1073), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project FA 1073. Paper titled “Quilting” by Glee Stinnett based on interviews with three Kentucky quilters. They answer basic questions about quilting, quilt patterns they have made, and how they learned to quilt. The project includes over thirty photos of quilts made by these three women, some fabric quilt squares, and a drawing of a quilt frame.

Mullins, Sharman (Fa 1062), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1062. Paper titled “At Rest” in which Sharman Mullins collects inscriptions found on gravestones in family plots, as well as church cemeteries and public cemeteries in Warren County and Logan County in Kentucky. Mullins also discusses aesthetics and the recurrent religious and familial themes inscribed upon the grave markers.

Sutherland, David (Fa 1056), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1056. Student folk studies project titled: “Ghost Stories Western Students Tell,” which includes survey sheets with ghost tales in Fayette County, Indiana and in Allen County, Jefferson County, Warren County and Webster County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a ghost story, informant’s name and address, and motif index number.

Starks, Rick (Fa 1052), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1052. Paper titled “Early Farm Tools and Implements” in which Rick Starks visits the Penns Chapel community, a rural hamlet located near Bowling Green, to witness how residents use traditional farming equipment such as plows, wagons, and mills to create sustainable and cooperative environments.

Withers, Martha L. (Fa 1046), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1046. Short paper titled “Epitaphs” in which Martha L. Withers discusses her efforts to collect epitaphs from several small cemeteries in Ohio County and Warren County, Kentucky. The only ones in the collection are from Trinity Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery on Three Springs Road in Warren County, Kentucky.

Hager, Anne Rogers (Fa 1025), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1025. Folk studies student project titled: “The Art of Quilting,” which includes interviews and survey sheets about quilting in Edmonson County and Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets may include brief descriptions of quilts, beliefs, informant’s name, and photos.

Bain, Jan (Fa 1023), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1023. Folk studies student project titled: “[Tales and Song],” which includes survey sheets of two tales and one song from Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets include tale or song, informant’s name and information, and motif index number.

Bain, Jan (Fa 1021), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1021. Folk studies student project titled: “[Housing],” which includes brief descriptions and photos of “I” houses in Warren County, Kentucky.

Wilson, Daniel J. (Fa 1014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1014. Student folk studies project titled: “Weaving.” Project includes survey sheets with a description of the weaving process in Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of belief, traditional practice, or tool, informant’s name, woven swatch, and photo.

Whittington, Greg, B. 1950 (Fa 1000), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1000. Project titled: “Traditional Methods Used in Making Replicas of Early Flintlocks and Caplocks.” Includes interviews with brief descriptions of the history and process to build flintlock and caplock rifles in the Penny Royal Region of Kentucky. Interviews may include a brief description, informant’s name, terms, and a photo of the rifle or gunsmith tool.

Hooe, Laura (Fa 996), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 996. Project titled: “Candy-making and Candy Pulling.” Includes survey sheets with recipes and brief descriptions of methods and superstitions regarding candy-making in Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description and informant’s name.

Chatelain, Marcia Anne (Fa 994), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Folklife Archives Project 994. Project titled: “Folklore in Cookery.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of beliefs, superstitions, proverbs, tales, riddles, songs and recipes of food preservation in Franklin County, Jefferson County, Oldham County, Pulaski County, and Warren County, Kentucky and Missouri. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and motif index number.

Roush, Selby (Fa 989), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 989. Project titled: "Superstitions and Beliefs Among the Basketball Team of WKU." Includes a brief narrative followed by collected superstitions and beliefs of Western Kentucky University basketball team members. Each superstition or belief is listed on separate collection sheets along with the

informant's name and home town. The author

also supplies brief biographical sheets for each

informant with a small photo.

Stewart, Karen (Fa 984), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 984. Project titled: “Funeral Beliefs, Customs, and Tombstone Art in Western Kentucky.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of funeral beliefs and customs and tombstone art in the Pennyroyal Region of Kentucky. Sheets can include a brief description, informant’s name, motif index number, and a photo of a tombstone.

Castillo, Jesse (Fa 983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 983. Project titled: “Folklore Collection.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of folk remedies, sayings, and ghost stories from Warren County, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Texas.

Mcgown, Joe (Fa 991), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 991. Project titled: “"Funeral Customs" compiled by Joe McGown for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes individual survey sheets listing a single funeral custom, the informant, date, and location. A large number of photographs, documenting tombstones, are included in the collection. The location of the tombstones is not included, but most of the survey work was done in Warren County, Kentucky.