On February 28, 2008, Man Martin, author of Days of Endless Corvette, came to Bowling Green to discuss his book, which is the 2008 “One Book” selection. He spoke and signed his book at the Corvette Museum, WKU’s Helm Library, and Bowling Green Public Library.
This is the fifth annual One Campus- One Community- One Book event sponsored by the Southern Kentucky Book Fest partners. The project is designed to cultivate reading and discussion by bringing the entire WKU campus and the Bowling Green community together around one book.
Participate in Bowling Green’s first annual Gallery Hop! A unique collaboration between the city’s independent Galleries, Non-Profit Galleries and Studio Centers to provide Bowling Green with great artistic opportunities.
At a quilting workshop on Saturday, February 16, participants made a small wallhanging and in the process learned two techniques used by quilt makers – how to paper piece and how to make three dimensional flowers. Both techniques also can be used to accent clothing, home accessories and other sewing projects.
Magical healings, ghostly encounters and alternative perceptions of reality have been a part of the history and culture of America since the settlement. Providing historical research to support personal narratives and field interviews, WKU Associate Professor and Librarian Jack Montgomery takes the reader into a largely hidden community that has its ancient roots in the African, German and Celtic cultures and is still active today despite the presence of our modern post-industrial society.
On the afternoon of February 8, seventeen third graders from St. Joseph’s School in Bowling Green visited the Kentucky Library & Museum to search though our approximately 12,000 photographs. Their mission included looking for pictures of “jobs, transportation, schools and churches” that they could use in preparing a “scrapbook†of pictures depicting the history of Bowling Green.