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Kentucky Live! presents Chef Albert Schmid
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“Set the Night on Fire” – Art by Tom Poole
One of the most popular recent art additions in the Helm-Cravens Library is “Set the Night on Fire,” a tribute to Jim Morrison of the rock group, The Doors. Born James Douglas Morrison in Melbourne, Florida in 1943, Morrison was a singer-composer-poet whose band became an icon of the late 1960s with hits like “Light My Fire” which in 1967 became the number one song of the “summer of love.” After completing his seventh album, a documentary film, three collections of poetry and a screenplay Morrison was discovered dead in his Paris apartment on July 4, 1971. He’s buried at Paris’s Pere Lachaise cemetery near the graves of Moliere, Balzac, Edith Piaf, Chopin and Oscar Wilde. See Jerry Hopkins entry in American National Biography Online, a WKU e-book.
Poole is an award winning Kentucky artist who paints with watercolors, acrylics, oils, pastels and mixed media. His work has appeared in many state, regional and national exhibitions. He’s a signature member of the Louisiana and Kentucky Watercolor Societies and the International Society of Acrylic Painters. Tom was a huge fan of The Doors and Jim and viewed his death at 27 as a great tragedy. His poem below is used with permission:
Dance with the Shaman
Can’t you reach a little higher?
Take a trip to hide the pain
Don’t you know
Cocaine is just another chain?
Spin and swirl
Dance with the Shaman
You are approaching your tortured destruction
Death is doing His best seduction
Reach out…your friend is here but The End is coming
C’mon…break on through…Transcend!
Spin and swirl
Dance with the Shaman
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Far Away Places presents Sarah D. Phillips
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Kentucky Live! Presents Mark Wetherington
On September 9, 2010, the Executive Director of the Filson Historical Society in Louisville was the opening speaker in WKU Libraries’ eighth annual Kentucky Live Series. The series took place in Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Bowling Green, KY. The topic of his talk was “Steamboating on the Western Waters: Bicentennial Reflections.” At the end of the talk he signed his book.
He says he was most influenced by the southern sense of place, southern history and southern literature. His love of history came from reading and hearing older people talk about people and the past. His research has focused on people and their lives in the area he grew up in (Piney Woods, Georgia) from about 1850-1910. In his first book The New South Comes to Wiregrass Georgia, 1860-1910 published by the University of Tennessee Press in 1994, he explored the transformation of an area characterized by pine forests, northern tourists and health seekers to one of cotton production and tenancy. It won the American Historical Association’s Herbert Feis Award. His most recent book plain folk’s fight: The Civil War & Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2005 and won an Award of Excellence from the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office. In it he examines the effects of the Civil War on the rural Southern home front in the wiregrass region of southern Georgia.
A native of Tifton, Georgia Mark grew up in Milan, Georgia where he attended public schools and thought about being an archaeologist or maybe a lawyer. After a stint in the US Navy he enrolled at Georgia Southern College from where he received his BA and MA in history before transferring to the University of Tennessee at Knoxville for his PhD.
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John Grismore, Bowling Green Artist
WKU Libraries has recently acquired “Garden Poetry” a work on paper by Bowling Green artist John Corry Grismore. A WKU graduate (but not in art), John began dabbling in abstract oil painting some eight years ago but soon switched to creating sculptures from driftwood collected on the shores of Barren River Lake. This year his sculpture “Versus” won first place in the 2010 US Bank Celebration of the Arts Show at the Kentucky Library and Museum. “Garden Poetry” involved picking, drying, arranging and pasting flower petals from his garden to paper. He used a technique which he developed himself, after numerous experiments, which allows the flower petals to retain most of their color. The end result allows us to enjoy the beauty of the flowers long after the plants have died. When not creating sculptures or other works of art John manages Western’s Postal Services Department. You can check out this eternal remembrance of a summer garden in Cravens 100.
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New Compact Shelving on Cravens 5th Floor
Installation of a new compact shelving unit on Cravens fifth floor has been completed. The unit is manually operated using hand cranks, and provides space for an additional 3000 volumes on that floor. The unit was funded through a Classroom Improvement Grant from the Provost’s office. The additional shelf space will help alleviate overcrowding on that floor. Allison Sircy and Jessica Simpson (pictured) oversaw the shelving of volumes on the new unit and will work with student assistants and staff this summer shifting volumes throughout the fifth floor.
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Canadian Library Grant 2009-2010
WKU Libraries has recently received a 2009-2010 Canadian Studies Library Support Program Grant in the amount of $2,411. The funds support acquisition of library materials (books, films, CD’s) published by Canadian publishers which expand our knowledge of Canada and Canadian culture. This is our 14th grant. The grant was announced by Dennis Moore, Public Affairs Officer at the Consulate General of Canada in Detroit.
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“Mountains and Valleys”
The WKU Bookstore sponsored a gathering of local authors at WKU Libraries on Tuesday, April 20 at 7:00 p.m. in the Helm Reading Room. Arranged by Sarah Fricks and entitled “Mountains and Valleys” it included selected readings on themes of struggle and hope, friendship and endurance. Tom Hunley, poet and Associate Professor of English at WKU read poems from his books My Life is a Minor Character, Still There’s a Glimmer and his newest book Octopus and even shared a new poem recently accepted for publication by The Louisville Review. Craig Dehut, who joined WKYU-PBS in April of 2009, read from his autobiography Her Little Soldier which chronicles the struggles he faced after he found out he had Juvenile Diabetes at age 10. Dehut has also worked on several feature and short films and is a graduate of the Art Institute of Atlanta. Mark Shine is a former Army journalist whose writings have appeared in Back Home in Kentucky and Kentucky Afield. He lives near Nolin River Lake, Kentucky. He read from his first novel Shine about the friendship between a middle class fisherman and an old moonshine man. David J. Bell, who teaches English and creative writing at WKU read from his newest novel, a thriller A Girl in the Woods. A large crowd enjoyed the evening. A book signing followed.
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“Travel in Time”: Historical Fiction
(L to R: Roger Brucker, Brian E. Coutts [moderator], Brigid Pasulka, Patti Lacy, Ann Gabhart, Mary Calhoun Brown. )
“Travel in Time”: Historical Fiction
One of the featured panels at this year’s Southern Kentucky Bookfest held at the Carroll Knicely Conference Center in Bowling Green on April 17 focused on historical novels. Ann H. Gabhart, a native of the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky and the author of 19 books for adults and young adults talked about her newest book The Believer, the second in her new “Shaker Series” set in “Harmony Hill” in the 1820s and 1830s. Roger Brucker, intrepid cave explorer and author spoke about his newest book Grand Gloomy and Peculiar: Stephen Bishop at Mammoth Cave which tells the tale of a slave who gained fame as a guide in the 1840s and 1850s. Brigid Pasulka, who teaches high school English at a Chicago Magnet School, talked about writing her extraordinary first novel A Long Time Ago & Essentially True which contrasts a grandfather’s and granddaughter’s experiences growing up in a small village and the city of Krakow, Poland on the eve of World War Ii and fifty years later as democracy is reborn. The book won this year’s Hemingway/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction. Patti Lacy, a native Texan spoke about her two newest novels An Irish Woman’s Tale, a story of betrayal and forgiveness, and What the Bayou Saw which describes how an attack on one of an Illinois college teacher’s African American students triggers her memories of segregation, a blood oath and a dead body in a Louisiana bayou. Mary Calhoun Brown from Huntington, West Virginia talked about her first young adult novel There Are No Words, which tells the tale of a 12 year old girl with autism who finds her voice by traveling back in time to 1918 and a train wreck near Nashville, Tennessee. Brian Coutts, Head of Library Public Services at WKU served as Moderator.
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Far Away Places – John Moore, the Road to Santiago & Pilgrimage
Our Far Away Places series featured John Moore on the evening of March 25 at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Bowling Green, Kentucky. He gave a talk entitled “The Road to Santiago and Pilgrimage.”
John is a Road Scholar with the Alabama Humanities foundation, and in May of this year he will lead a group of students on “The Road to Santiago.” It is the famous walk across Spain sometimes called the French Road to Santiago de Compostela where some believe the remains of the first martyred apostle of Jesus, St. James are housed. People have been following this pilgrimage route since the medieval period. It’s now designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
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