"This collection documents changes in health care during the twentieth century in the rural counties of Pulaski, Wayne, and McCreary. They discuss how a health care system based in the home and community slowly changed to one administered by...
This collection preserves the reminiscences of the survivors of the Bataan Death March who were in the 192nd Tank Battalion of the Kentucky National Guard in Harrodsburg. They discuss their Army experiences in the United States, their arrival in...
1961; 1982
Kentucky Historical Society, Harrodsburg Tank Battalion : Bataan Death March Oral History Project
The Mighty Brickhouse was a community social club that supported a softball team and contributed to many community and charitable activities. Back row: Ike Yett, Jerry Wade, Rick Yett, Eugene White, L. Brown, George Gipson, Richard Hawkins;...
1982
Community Memories: A Glimpse of African American Life in Frankfort, Ky., 1995PH02; Contributed by John Sykes
By Geo. O. Barnes, "the mountain evangelist," Kentucky, U.S.A. Added title page includes illustration of author. Includes "short biography of George Owen Barnes, the mountain evangelist of Kentucky, U.S.A." KHS: Listed in Coleman (#884).
This letter is part of a collection of correspondence. The Watson family letters (most by Isabel/Isabella Watson) originate in Mississippi City, MS and include news of people's health and illnesses, activities, church and religion, the enslaved...
1846
Kentucky Historical Society, Watson and Robinson families letters, SC 1261;
This letter is part of a collection of correspondence. The Watson family letters (most by Isabel/Isabella Watson) originate in Mississippi City, MS and include news of people's health and illnesses, activities, church and religion, the enslaved...
1850
Kentucky Historical Society, Watson and Robinson families letters, SC 1261;
This letter is part of a collection of correspondence. The W W Ware family of Brandon, Mississippi writing to Will Kilbrew on business matters, contains a letter from Mary E Ware to her "dear old servant" and includes news of people's health and...
1850
Kentucky Historical Society, Watson and Robinson families letters, SC 1261;
Miss Orr is most likely Susan Eleanor Orr who married Valentine Peers in 1791. Letter provides news of a general and personal nature. Some of the topics included concern music, tea parties, wine and romance.
This letter is of a very general nature, providing news of health, home and family. In one part, Powell mentions that she is having her house painted and mentions the colors being used.
The Kentucky Oral History Commission , in cooperation with the Kentucky Heritage Council Main Street Program, initiated the Main Street, Kentucky Oral History Project in 1993. The project supports the collection of oral history interviews that...
William Bass discusses his experiences in the C.C.C. from 1934-1937. He was at Warm Springs, Chipley, and Fort Benning. He reminisces about seeing Franklin D. Roosevelt at Warm Springs, the projects he worked on, food in the camp, recreation, and...
1990-06-06
C.C.C. (Civilian Conservation Corps) Oral History Project, 1992OH03;
Charley Crawford, a coal miner for twenty-five years, discusses the coal industry, coal mining in Eastern Kentucky, coal camps, and changes in mining practices.
1977-05-12
Coal in Kentucky : Emergence of an Industry Oral History Project, 1977OH01
The music played by traditional fiddlers in the Appalachian region of Kentucky originated in the British Isles in ancient times. The musicians interviewed for this series learned to play their instruments before recording and broadcasting...
1985
Kentucky Historical Society, Vintage Fiddling in Eastern Kentucky Oral History Project
Carl Short taught mining courses to coal miners in eastern Kentucky. He discusses his education, the classes he taught, the process of becoming a mine foreman, changes in coal mining methods, mine safety, race relations, living in a coal camp,...
1977-05-11
Coal in Kentucky : Emergence of an Industry Oral History Project, 1977OH01;
Between 1955 and 1972 Frankfort's "Bottom" or "Craw" community, an integrated working-class neighborhood, was systematically destroyed by the urban renewal process in the capital city. In a series of interviews former residents describe their...
One of the state's most influential leaders in politics and education, Edward F. Prichard, Jr. and his associates discuss Prichard family history and politics, Bourbon County life in the 1920s, Prichard's early interest in the law, the Ku Klux Klan...
