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Laurel County (Ky.) -- History.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Appalachian Historic Forest Conditions Oral History Project

 Collection
Identifier: BCA 0286
Scope and Contents This oral history collection consists of interviews (mostly during 1996) with eighteen elder (over 65) Appalachians about their recollections of the forest in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. While the interviews focus on their experience of the forests, their stories also intersect with other aspects of their experience and contributions such as music and art. Interviewees: Giles Rainey Minnie Yancey Zan White Ernest Kinnaird William...
Dates: 1996

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