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Whitley County (Ky.) -- History.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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

William Sears Home and Field Recordings Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0130 SAA 130
Scope and Contents This collection consists of (1) video and audio home recordings, (2) radio programs 1950s - 1970s, and (3) video field recordings, 2008, documenting a wide range of singers and instrumentalist from Whitley, Knox, and McCreary counties, Kentucky and just over the border in Tennessee. Especially notable are performances by fiddlers Claude Harmon and Marion Pridemore, and numerous other local musicians on the Country Music Express radio programs. ...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950-2008