Louisville native and WKU graduate Tyrone Cottton entertained the crowd at Java City today with his unique musical style. Despite the closure of the shop’s coffee-service, Tyrone managed to enchant his audience with his thoughtful lyrics, soulful voice and masterful guitar.
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Tyrone Cotton Performs in Java City
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It’s Not News, It’s FARK
WKU Libraries presented Dew Curtis, founder of the acclaimed Fark.com on the evening of October 23, 2008 at Barnes & Noble Booksellers. Dew talked about “how mass media tries to pass off crap as news,” a topic that constitutes the title of one of his books. After his presentation, he signed the book for its buyers.
This presentation was part of the talk series known as “Kentucky Live! The Best of the Southern Culture.” For future presentations, please visit www.wku.edu/library/events/kylive/.
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Faraway Places Presented Dr. David Keeling
This Thursday, October 16, 2008, Dr. David Keeling, Head of Geography and Geology, talked about Cambodia in our Faraway Places series at Barnes and Noble.
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Faraway Places: Panama
Aristófanes Cedeño, Associate Professor of Spanish, Director of the Panamanian Studies Program and Academic Dean of the Kentucky Governor’s Scholars Program at the University of Louisville, talked about Panama in the Faraway Places Series on Thursday, September 18th at Barnes & Noble.
Born and raised in Panama, Dr. Cedeño earned a law degree at the University of Panama before moving to the U.S. and obtaining his Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from Michigan State University. Recently he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Humanities Council, and was named one of the twenty-five most influential Hispanics in Louisville because of his contributions to education in Kentucky and to the Latino Legal Clinics organized by the Louisville Bar Association.
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Kentucky Live: Lonesome Cowgirls
WKU Libraries’ Kentucky Live! presented Kristine McCusker who spoke about her new book “Lonesome Cowgirls & Honky-Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio,” at Barnes and Noble on September 11 2008.
Popular between the two world wars, American barn dance radio evoked comforting images of a nostalgic and stable past for listeners beset by economic problems at home and worried about totalitarian governments abroad. Sentimental images such as the mountain mother and the chaste everybody’s-little-sister “girl singer” helped to sell a new consumer culture and move commercial country music from regional fare to national treasure. Kristine M. McCusker examines the gendered politics of these images through the lives and careers of six women performers.
Kristine M. McCusker is an associate professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University. She is coeditor of A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music.
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Kentucky Writers Conference (free program)
Free sessions were held at WKU’s South Campus on April 18, 2008. Featured presenters included: Journalist Penny Loeb, Poets John Guzlowski and Lynnell Major Edwards, Fiction Writers Beverle Graves Myers, Deborah LeBlanc and Kathleen Ernst, and Editor Morris A. Grubbs. This was part of the Southern Kentucky Book Fest events.
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Kentucky Live! “Appalachian Home Cooking”
Dr. Mark F. Sohn, a food historian, and Pikeville College professor, presented “Appalachian Home Cooking” at Barnes & Noble on Thursday, April 10, 2008. Dr. Sohn showed how food traditions in Appalachia had developed over two centuries from dinner on the grounds, church picnics, school lunches, and family reunions as he celebrated regional signatures such as dumplings, moonshine, and country ham. This program was part of the “Kentucky Live!†series organized by the WKU Libraries.
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Far Away Places: Easter Island
Dr. Michael Trapasso, professor in the Geography and Geology Department at WKU, talked about Easter Island in the University Libraries’ Faraway Places Series on Thursday, March 20th at Barnes & Noble.
Easter Island has long been known as an Island of Mystery. In reality, scientists have studied this island and its inhabitants for decades and much of the mystery has been cleared away. If you missed out and are interested in learning about the truth behind the mysteries, the following will help you revisit Dr. Trapasso’s talk.
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Kentucky Live! “Derby Legends and Other ‘Truths'”
Ronnie Dreistadt, Outreach Educator at the Kentucky Derby Museum, presented “Derby Legends and Other ‘Truths'” at Barnes & Noble on Thursday March 6th. He covered 134 years of Derby history through stories and legends.
Some of the horses and people he mentioned include Aristides, winner of the first Derby; Outlaw Frank James, one of the first “celebrities” to attend the race; Sir Barton, the first Triple Crown winner; and Secretariat, which still holds the record for the fastest running horse in the history of Derby.
This program is part of the “Kentucky Live!†series organized by the WKU Libraries.
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One Book Author Man Martin in Bowling Green
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.
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