Tobacco Culture

John Van Willigen, Susan C Eastwood

• Paperback | Engels | Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History
• Whereas most crops drive farmers apart as they compete for the best prices, the price controls on tobacco bring growers together. The result is a cult... Lees meer

Washington's Iron Butterfly

Donald A Ritchie, Terry L Birdwhistell

• Hardcover | Engels | Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History
• Had Elizabeth "Bess" Clements Abell (1933--2020) been a boy, she would likely have become a politician like her father, Earle C. Clements. Effectively... Lees meer

Crawfish Bottom

Douglas A Boyd

• Hardcover | Engels | Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History
• A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. "Craw's" rep... Lees meer

Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950

John Van Willigen, Anne Van Willigen

• Paperback | Engels | Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History
• The foods Kentuckians love to eat today -- biscuits and gravy, country ham and eggs, soup beans and cornbread, fried chicken and shucky beans, and fri... Lees meer

Conversations with Kentucky Writers

• Paperback | Engels | Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History
• With a foreword by Wade Hall Photographs by Susan Lippman Whether they left Kentucky and returned, as Wendell Berry did, or adopted the Commonwealth a... Lees meer

Voices from the Peace Corps

Angene Wilson, Jack Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History
• President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961. In the fifty years since, nearly 200,000 Americans have served in 139 countrie... Lees meer

Crawfish Bottom

Douglas A Boyd

• Paperback | Engels | Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History
• A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. "Craw's" rep... Lees meer

Bert Combs the Politician

George W Robinson

• Paperback | Engels | Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History
• Bert T. Combs was governor of Kentucky from 1959 to 1963, but his impact on the Commonwealth continues to be felt. The state sales tax, toll road expa... Lees meer

Voices from the Peace Corps

Angene Wilson, Jack Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History
• President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961. In the fifty years since, nearly 200,000 Americans have served in 139 countrie... Lees meer

Freedom on the Border

Catherine Fosl, Tracy E K'Meyer

• Paperback | Engels | Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History
• Memories fade, witnesses pass away, and the stories of how social change took place are often lost. Many of those stories, however, have been preserve... Lees meer

Barry Bingham

Barry Bingham

• Paperback | Engels | Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History
• Barry Bingham, Sr., was one of this country's most influential journalists. Under his half-century of leadership, the Louisville Courier-Journal becam... Lees meer

Burley

Ann K Ferrell

• Paperback | Engels | Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History
• Once iconic American symbols, tobacco farms are gradually disappearing. It is difficult for many people to lament the loss of a crop that has come to ... Lees meer

Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky

Nora Rose Moosnick

• Hardcover | Engels | Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History
• Some Americans continue to perceive Arab and Jewish immigrants and their descendants as outsiders-outsiders who belong to two distinct groups with a h... Lees meer

Burley

Ann K Ferrell

• Hardcover | Engels | Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History
• Once iconic American symbols, tobacco farms are gradually disappearing. It is difficult for many people to lament the loss of a crop that has come to ... Lees meer

Barry Bingham

Barry Bingham

• Hardcover | Engels | Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History
• Barry Bingham, Sr., was one of this country's most influential journalists. Under his half-century of leadership, the Louisville Courier-Journal becam... Lees meer

This Is Home Now

Arwen Donahue

• Hardcover | Engels | Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History
• The term "Holocaust survivors" is often associated with Jewish communities in New York City or along Florida's Gold Coast. Traditionally, tales of Ame... Lees meer

Conversations with Kentucky Writers II

• Hardcover | Engels | Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History
• In this sequel to Conversations with Kentucky Writers, L. Elisabeth Beattie brings together in-depth interviews with sixteen of the state's premiere w... Lees meer

Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky

Nora Rose Moosnick

• Paperback | Engels | Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History
• Outwardly it would appear that Arab and Jewish immigrants comprise two distinct groups with differing cultural backgrounds and an adversarial relation... Lees meer

This Is Home Now

Arwen Donahue

• Paperback | Engels | Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History
• At the end of World War II, many thousands of Jewish Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United States from Europe in search of a new beginning. Mos... Lees meer