Bob Gates Oral History Project

Five audio oral history interviews and one video oral history interview conducted by Sarah Milligan with Bob Gates about his life in the field of folklore, the beginning of the Kentucky Folklife Program, and programs both himself and Sarah Milligan did with the people of Kentucky documenting their culture. Gates founded the Kentucky Folklife Program, which was once split between KHS and the KY Arts Council before being moved to WKU in 2012. Sarah Milligan conducted these interviews in 2011 and 2012 in order to provide a retrospective about Bob Gates' career. During this time, the folklife program was preparing to be transferred over to WKU, which provided an opportunity to chronicle the history of the folklife program before it left KHS and prior to Gates' retirement in December 2012.

 

Interviews