Members of the Bowling Green Community Greeters Newcomers Club are assisting the Manuscripts unit of the Kentucky Library & Museum to celebrate Kentucky Archives Week by working with some of the Warren County court records housed in the Kentucky Building. The group is foldering, identifying and describing Commonwealth court cases, which involve crimes such as larceny, disruption of the peace, road maintenance negligence, swearing, assault and battery, contempt of court, and disorderly conduct. Manuscripts has approximately 3000 of these cases. The Commonwealth cases also contain information about early Grand Juries; this court also issued bail bonds (or recognizance bonds) and peace warrants. An example of the later is found in December 1817 when Abram Lawrence came before John Keel, a justice of the peace, stating that he was “afraid that William Hammett, James Hammett, and Daniel Welch will wound, beat, abuse or kill him or injure and destroy his property†and thus came and “prayed surety of the peace against them.†Each of the feared men appeared before Keel and promised to not injure the said Lawrence or his property and each proffered a bond acknowledging the same. The cases date from 1799 to the 1920s.
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Manuscripts Celebrated Kentucky Archives Week
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Spinning at the Kentucky Library & Museum
Joanne Seiff helps a member of the Sunday Spinners learn how to use a drop spindle. Come join the group at their October 14 meeting.
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Brigid Kaelin Performed at Java City in Helm Library
Folk Rock/Country Artist Brigid Kaelin performed at noon at Java City in the WKU Helm Library on October 2, 2007. The performance is part of the WKU Libraries’ Live Entertainment event series. Visit the Java City in Helm Library web site to get a full list of the performances.
View our YouTube web page to see a video clip of her performance. Visit her MySpace for more information.
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William Woys Weaver Presented American Appetite
On Friday, September 28 at the Kentucky Library & Museum, internationally known food historian, author and “seed saver” of heirloom vegetables, William Woys Weaver, presented “An American Appetite: The Material Culture of Food.”
Weaver has authored fourteen books, on topics such as heirloom vegetables, herbal remedies, gardening and cooking. He currently serves as Contributing Editor to Gourmet, and Contributing Editor to Mother Earth News. “An American Appetite” explores the trends and ideas in the development of American cuisine over the past three centuries using archival material, old menus, and culinary ephemera to illustrate ways we can better understand where we have come from and where we are headed.
If you missed out the presentation, you may listen to the audio file here or get this Podcast RSS to listen on the go.
To learn more about William Woys Weaver visit: http://www.americanprofile.com/article/2028.html and http://www.pbs.org/pov/borders/2004/earth/earth_int_garden.html.
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Caves Exhibit Opens
Have you spent time underground exploring an unknown world and finding water-sculpted stone, crystalline formations and unusual wildlife? Do you enjoy taking photographs under unusual or challenging conditions? Come check out the “Caves: A Fragile Wilderness” at the Kentucky Library & Museum.
In addition to 39 photographs taken in caves from Alaska to Malaysia, the exhibit also includes historic caving items and mineral and plant specimens loaned by Mammoth Cave National Park as well as images from the collection of the Kentucky Library & Museum.
The exhibit runs through November 24.
“Slow Time” Exhibit at Kentucky Library & Museum
The Works of Charley, Noah & Hazel Kinney, is on exhibit at the Kentucky Library & Museum now through November 17.
This exhibit was organized by the Kentucky Folk Art Center and presents more than 80 works. It is said that the “Kinney family’s creative expressions epitomized the traditional arts of East Kentucky….” The family’s works include paintings, three dimensional works and carvings.
For more information visit http://www.wku.edu/Library/kylm.
Made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius, the Judith Rothschild Foundation and the Kentucky Arts Council.
Folk Art on Display
Do you love art but find the old masters a bit too high brow for you? Come experience the joy and mystery of the more than 80 paintings, sculptures and drawings in the“Slow Times: The Art of Charley, Noah and Hazel Kinney” exhibit. The exhibit at the Kentucky Library & Museum runs through February 10, 2008.
Make your own sculpture or get a special take on the exhibit from artist-in-residence Lynne Ferguson.
Far Away Places: the Sahara
David Keeling, Head of Geography and Geology, talked about the Sahara in this week’s Far Away Places Series on Thursday, September 20th at Barnes & Noble.
Keeling traveled to the Sahara last October and November as Expedition Lecturer for the American Geographical Society’s educational expedition programs.
You may revisit the event by viewing a Flickr photo album and a YouTube movie clip, or by listening to/synching to a podcast of Dr. Keeling’s speech.
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Dementia Cookie Box Performed at Java City
Today, the WKU Libraries presented Dementia Cookie Boxed at Java City in Helm Library. The duo band performed “The Cookie Crunch of Grunge.” You may find out more about the event by visiting a photo album on Flickr.
To learn more about the band, visit its My Space, web site, and YouTube.
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Kitchen Kitsch
On Saturday, August 18 area collectors participated in Antique Appraisal Day. The theme of this year’s event was “Kitchen Kitsch†with “Treasurers in your Attic†personality Joe Rosson returning as the featured appraiser.
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