Tommy McMullin discusses the history of his family farm in Madison County. Topics include when his father started farming, changes in crops, tobacco farming, raising beef cattle, hogs, government farm assistance, county tax assessment, the Tobacco...
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...
The Community Memories Oral History Project explores African American life in Frankfort and Franklin County and was conducted in conjunction with the earlier photographic project collecting family photographs of the members of this community. The...
Mr. Klingenfus has taken a leadership position in the state and particularly in his community to try to serve the social justice needs of the rural population. This interview deals with the organizations started by the Kentucky Council of Churches...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Edward Fretwell Prichard, Jr. recalls his experiences as a student at Princeton University and Harvard Law School. During the Princeton segment, Prichard discusses his life at Princeton, remembering such topics as his professors and classmates,...
1982-11-15
Edward F. Prichard, Jr. Oral History Project, 2003OH01
From Yvonne Giles and Thomas Tolliver: Children are Jennie V. Wendell, left, and Dan Hunter. From a Lexington Herald Leader article, February 16, 1913: Photograph was taken as part of an advertisement for the People’s Pharmacy, 118 North...
1913
Kentucky Historical Society, Thomas T. Wendell Collection, MSS 167
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...
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...
Edgar Puckett discusses farms owned by his family and his wife's family. Topics include crops and livestock raised by his father, what he raises now, changes in tobacco prices, farm equipment, the Government Welfare System and its effects on...
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
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...
The Community Memories Oral History Project explores African American life in Frankfort and Franklin County and was conducted in conjunction with the earlier photographic project collecting family photographs of the members of this community. The...
Ira Massie was the name most associated with tobacco in the state of Kentucky. These interviews are probably the best in the collection and full of detailed information. Mr. Massie was not universally loved in the tobacco community, but that was...
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...
"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...
