Copyright (c) 2013 Western Kentucky University All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist Recent documents in FA Oral Histories en-us Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:38:19 PDT 3600 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/62 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/62 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:05:12 PST Transcription of an interview conducted by Elizabeth Mosby Adler with Thomas Lengal for an oral history and cultural project titled EthniCity: Contemporary Ethnicity in the Inner Bluegrass.

]]> Manuscripts & Folklife Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/61 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/61 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:56:53 PST Transcript of an interview of Randall and Ginnie Mae Grider conducted by Nancy Clay Hundley about the float building tradition at Tompkinsville High School in Tompkinsville, Kentucky. The Griders describe the whole float making process and the activities created through the building of a float. The emotions of the people involved in the process were also discussed. This project was completed as part of a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

]]> Manuscripts & Folklife Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/60 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/60 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:56:52 PST Transcription of an interview conducted by Elizabeth Mosby Adler with Nirmala Sathaye for an oral history and cultural project titled EthniCity: Contemporary Ethnicity in the Inner Bluegrass. The interviewee discusses her life in India, including her education, family life, and cultural traditions. She also explains doll costumes she has made.

]]> Manuscripts & Folklife Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/59 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/59 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:56:50 PST Transcription of an interview conducted by Elizabeth Mosby Adler with Hazel Forsythe for an oral history and cultural project titled EthniCity: Contemporary Ethnicity in the Inner Bluegrass. The interviewee discusses her multi-cultural background in Guyana and how it has affected her connection to music, food and the people around her.

]]> Manuscripts & Folklife Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/58 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/58 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:56:32 PST Transciption of an interview conducted by Elizabeth Mosby Adler with Veena Bonsal for an oral history and cultural project titled EthniCity: Contemporary Ethnicity in the Inner Bluegrass. Interviewee discusses her life in India and the U.S. as it relates to traditions of language, family, food, clothing, body art, etc.

]]> Manuscripts & Folklife Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/57 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/57 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:32:47 PST Transcription of an interview with Michael Patrick Carroll conducted by Xiaoge Cai for a folk studies class project titled "Mr. C.'s Coffee House as Clientele." Carroll discusses his work as the owner of a coffee house/bar called Mr. C's Coffee House in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He discusses his life and relevant problems with his work including dealing with minors and issues with radio broadcasting. This project was completed in fulfillment of the requirements for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

]]> Manuscripts & Folklife Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/56 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/56 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:58:59 PDT Transcription of an interview with Pearl Perguson conducted by Kevin Eans for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Perguson discusses her life and times, including information about social life and reactions to national events in the small town of Horse Branch, Ohio County, Kentucky.

]]> Manuscripts & Folklife Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/55 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/55 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 07:43:15 PDT Transcription of an oral history interview done with Troy Davis related to his work in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Mammoth Cave in the 1930s.

]]> Manuscripts & Folklife Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/54 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/54 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:46:35 PDT Transcription of an oral history interview done with Joe Kulesza related to his work in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Mammoth Cave in the 1930s.

]]> Manuscripts & Folklife Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/53 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/53 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:46:33 PDT Transcription of an oral history interview done with Henry Scott related to his work in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Mammoth Cave in the 1930s.

]]> Manuscripts & Folklife Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/52 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/52 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:36:11 PST Transcription of an interview conducted by Joseph Carl Ruff with Herbert Alexander Oldham on 15 May 1993 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. They discuss African American education in Bowling Green, Kentucky, integration, and segregation. They also discuss Oldham's education at St. Augustine College in Raleigh, North Carolina, his teaching career and education administration positions in Bowling Green, his family backgound, and his experiences as an African American youth in Bowling Green.

]]> Manuscripts & Folklife Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/51 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/51 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:37:55 PDT Transcription of an interview conducted by Margaret (Bulger) Kohn with Freeman Kitchens in Drake, Kentucky on 22 September 1974. They discuss the store, Kitchens's phonograph collection and his association with the Carter Family (musical group).

]]> Manuscripts & Folklife Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/50 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/50 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:58:47 PDT Transcription of an interview conducted by Ron Morrison with Freeman Kitchens at Kitchens Groceries in Drake, Warren County, Kentucky in March 1978. They discuss the store, Kitchens's phonograph collection and his association with the Carter Family (musical group).

]]> Manuscripts & Folklife Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/49 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/49 Sat, 09 Jul 2011 07:10:09 PDT Transcription of an oral interview with Virginia Pannell about her life and times conducted by Charlotte Postlewaite for an oral history project titled "Do You Remember When, 1900-1949." In the interview Pannell discusses her life in Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. She talks about teachers and teaching, schools, education, politics, health care, World War I, World War II, Influenza, radios, B. Mathis, coal mines and mining, strikes, telephones, vigilantism, Prohibition, rationing and religion.

]]> Manuscripts & Folklife Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/48 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/48 Sat, 09 Jul 2011 07:10:07 PDT Full-text transcription of an interview with Ruby Stephens Ingram about her husband and architect, James Maurice Ingram, conducted by Kevin Hunter on 8 October 1982 in Louisville, Kentucky. She discusses Mr. Ingram's work in Bowling Green, Kentucky and the rest of the state.

]]> Manuscripts & Folklife Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/47 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/47 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:53:19 PST 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.

]]> Manuscripts & Folklife Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/46 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/46 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:18:13 PST 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.

]]> Manuscripts & Folklife Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/45 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/45 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:09:09 PST 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.

]]> Manuscripts & Folklife Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/44 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/44 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:25:49 PST 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.

]]> Manuscripts & Folklife Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/43 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/43 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:25:47 PST 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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