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

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

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

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

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.

Gamblin, Margaret, B. 1949 (Fa 997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 997. Project titled: “Quilting.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of quilting methods, terms, and patterns in McCracken County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, terms, and a photo of the quilt.

Talley, Martha (Fa 998), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 998. Project titled: “Quilts and Quilting in the Jonesville Community of Hart County, Kentucky.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of quilting methods, terms, patterns beliefs, and superstitions in Hart County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, terms, pattern, and a photo of the quilt.

Porch, Bob, B. 1950 (Fa 993), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 993. Project titled: “Fishing.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of stories, methods, beliefs about fishing in the Penny Royal Region of Kentucky and New Jersey. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and motif index number.

Shidal, Denise (Fa 995), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 995. Project titled: “Quilting.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of quilting methods and patterns in Shelby County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, terms, and a photo of the quilt.

Schweers, Sheila (Fa 992), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 992. Project titled: “Churning and Molding Butter.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of superstitions, proverbs, and songs about churning and molding butter in Logan County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, terms, informant’s name, motif index number, and a photo of a churn or related item.

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

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

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

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

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

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

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

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

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.

Spears, Sandra (Fa 999), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 999. Project titled: “Folk Medicine in Allen County.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of folk remedies and beliefs in Allen County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and the motif index number.

Tichenor, Judy, B. 1951 (Fa 987), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 987. Project titled: “Quilting in Ohio County.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of quilting practices, superstitions, and patterns in Ohio County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, questionnaire answers, informant’s name, terms, implements, and photos of quilts.

Mcmurray, Becky (Fa 988), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 988. Project titled: “Folk Housing: Deatsville and Bardstown, Kentucky.” Project includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of the informant’s beliefs and superstitions as well as information abpit structures in the Deatsville and Bardstown areas of Nelson County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description, informant’s name, motif index number of the belief, and a photo of the structure.

Pack, Chester (Fa 985), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 985. Project titled: “Chair Making.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of chair making implements of Elliott “Red” Keown in Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, terms, and a photo of the implement or chair.

Wilson, Phillip L., B. 1952 (Fa 986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 986. Project titled: “Folk Structures in My Community.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of structures in Nicholasville, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and a photo of the structure.

Mcguire, Wilma (Wise) (Fa 981), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 981. Project titled: “Ten Broeck and Mollie and the Miller’s Will.” Includes descriptions of the lyrics of the two ballads “Ten Broeck and Mollie” and “The Miller’s Will” collected in Taylor County, Kentucky.

Nunn, Bobby (Fa 977), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 977. Project titled: “The Dairy Barns of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century of Western Metcalfe County.” Project includes descriptions of two dairy barns and agricultural structures in Metcalfe County, Kentucky. Survey sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and a photo or illustration of the barn or structure.

Marsh, Mary (Arnold) (Fa 982), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 982. Project titled: “Collected Stories: John D. Arnold.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of stories about John D. Arnold collected in the Penny Royal Region of Kentucky. Sheets include a description of the story and informant’s name.

Schlotman, Robert (Fa 980), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 980. Project titled: “Adults’ Children’s Lore.” Includes descriptions of song lyrics and rope skipping rhymes with adult connotations sung by children in the collector’s family in Hopkins County, Kentucky.