Datesort descending Interviewee(s) Interviewer(s)
03/19/1984 R. O. Abbott Tom Arnold
03/19/1984 Barnett Abbott Thomas C. Arnold, Jr., Tracy L. Brittain, David N. Heighway
03/19/1984 Elsie Dobbs, Clark Stonewall , Helen Bell, Ed Bell Michael Boggs, Kathy Kerr
03/19/1984 Michael Boggs, Kathy Kerr
03/19/1984 Virgil Anderson Michael Boggs, Kathy Kerr
03/20/1984 Guy Huffaker Thomas C. Arnold, Jr., Tracy L. Brittain, David N. Heighway
03/20/1984 Guy Huffaker Thomas C. Arnold, Jr., Tracy L. Brittain, David N. Heighway
03/20/1984 Virgil Anderson Michael Boggs, Kathy Kerr
03/20/1984 Virgil Anderson Michael Boggs, Kathy Kerr
03/20/1984 Arlie Winchester Thomas J. Blackburn
03/20/1984 Lee Abbott Alice A. Corbin, James E. Spradlin
03/20/1984 Lee Abbott Alice A. Corbin, James E. Spradlin
03/29/1984 Michael Boggs, Kathy Kerr
03/29/1984 Stanley Young Alice A. Corbin, James E. Spradlin
Western Kentucky University, Special Collections Library

Wayne County Project

Repository: 

Western Kentucky University, Special Collections Library

Subjects: 

American Civil War (1861-1865), Young family, Wayne County (Ky.), Banjo music, Bluegrass music, Blues (Music), Boarding houses, Christmas, Farms, Farming, Fiddle tunes, Fiddlers, Folk medicine, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Games, Genealogy, Herbs, Holidays, Musicians, Petroleum industry and trade, One-room schools, Social life and customs, Supernatural, Teachers, Teaching, Water witching

Call Number: 

FA 23
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Oral history interviews with various residents of Wayne County, Kentucky, conducted by Western Kentucky University folk studies students in 1984. Topics include the oil industry, folk medicine, water witching, one-room schools and banjo playing. All of the interviews were recorded on cassette tape; some tapes have an accompanying index and/or transcription.