Knox County (Ky.) -- History.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Alan J. Crain Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0113 SAA 113
Abstract
A sociologist by training, Alan J. Crain taught at Allegheny College in western Pennsylvania. During the 1970s, he developed an ongoing interest in southeastern Kentucky through the Appalachian Semester at Union College in Barbourville. This was a summer-long program that introduced students to the culture and traditions of Knox County and the surrounding area. Over a period of about ten years he made extended visits to Knox County, at times living in homes of residents of the Trosper...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1975-1982
Mabel Martin Wyrick Local History Collection
Collection — 1
Identifier: BCA 0039 SAA 037
Abstract
Mabel Martin Wyrick (1913 – 2003) was a Kentucky writer. Her published books include If Quilts Could Talk... I'd Listen, Tales of the Rails, How to Bury a Drifter, The Ultimate Irony, Factual Folklore, and Land Beneath the Lake.
Wyrick also wrote weekly newspaper columns including "If...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1854 - 1893; Other: Majority of material found in 1854-1893, 1983