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...
Elbert Arvin gives the history of his farming operations. Topics include acreage purchased and prices, the attitude of the bank, tenant farmers, barns, tractors, other business ventures, crops raised, livestock feed, livestock, beef cattle, hogs,...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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;
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...
Kentucky Historical Society, Watson and Robinson families letters, SC 1261;
Mr. Brewer has been in the farm implement business for over forty years. This interview deals with the equipment that the tobacco farmer uses, how important the tobacco farmer has been to the equipment business, and how the farm downturn has...
Elizabeth (Libby) Jones discusses her relationship with the Kentucky Historical Society, as well as her father, Col. Arthur Lloyd's association with the society.
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;
This collection of oral hsitory interviews is with women who worked at Rookwood from the 1920s to the 1940s discuss their work as decorators, their lives, and their artistic pursuits, including potting, wood carving, clay modeling, and painting.
1988
Kentucky Historical Society, Rookwood Pottery Oral History Project
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
Eva Dean Edwards talks about the history of the Boian family farm in Estill County. Topics include how it has been passed down from her great-grandfather to her, crops and livestock each generation raised, horse drawn farm equipment her father...
