Oral History

My Great-Great-Great Chicken Lived There!

April 20, 2022

An oft-told family story is the shock and vertigo experienced by my mother when she moved to my father’s hometown. The paternal side of my family takes its cousins VERY seriously – even today. Her mother-in-law, trying to acclimate her to life in the community, introduced her around, but it was all a bewildering maze (read more)

Categories: Kentucky history, Oral History

Tags: #familystories, #kentuckyarchitecture, #kentuckyhistory, #oralhistory

Lynch Oral History Project, September 25-27, 2017

September 14, 2017

What makes place so important to some people? And what is it about some places in Kentucky that draw former residents home, again and again? Learning about the connection between people and communities, people and place is one of the perks of my job, and one that I will be exercising soon during an oral (read more)

Categories: Architecture, Harlan County, Historic architecture, Kentucky architecture, Kentucky history, Oral History

Tags: Appalachia, Coal mining, Lynch, oral history

Flowers for Decoration Day

May 30, 2017

There is a very short and magical period in the Bluegrass where, if you are a gardener, all is right with the world. For me, that time is right now. The aching heat of summer has not yet engulfed us; the frenetic activity associated with the vegetable garden has not yet begun; the nights are (read more)

Categories: Cemeteries, Gardens, Kentucky agriculture, Kentucky Gardens, Kentucky history, Montgomery County, Oral History

Tags: Anne Kenney Prewitt, Blue Grass Seed farming, Decoration Day, Kentucky gardens, Machpelah Cemetery, Memorial Day, World War I

Tell Your Story with StoryCorps: March 16-April 14, 2017

March 14, 2017

StoryCorps is coming back to town! The nonprofit organization that helps people record stories about their lives and “leave a legacy for the future” will return to Lexington, Kentucky on March 16, parking their  MobileBooth — a sleek Airstream trailer  converted to a recording studio — at Phoenix Park next to the downtown library. I visited the (read more)

Categories: Kentucky history, Oral History

Tags: NPR, oral history, StoryCorps, StoryCorps MobileBooth, WUKY

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