Faculty, staff, and students enjoyed the annual Halloween Party held in Cravens 111 during lunch. Several people entered the costume competition.
Winners included: First place- Crystal Bowling as a Weeping Angel from Dr. Who, Second Place- Jeanie Butler as Swamp Queen from Swamp People on the History Channel, and Third place- Allison Salmon as Grumpy Cat.
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Event Location: Clay Motley @ Far Away Places, Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 1680 Campbell Lane.
Perhaps no other place in America is as singularly linked to its music history as this small southern city on Highway 61 seventy-seven miles south of Memphis. Here, since the early twentieth century, an astonishing number of significant musicians were born or lived from W. C. Handy, Son House, John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters to Sam Cooke and Ike Turner while Influential blues artists like Charles Patton and Robert Johnson played in its juke joints, and some argue the first rock and roll song was written and rehearsed in 1951.
The “Delta Avenue” and “Blues Alley” street corner.
Clarksdale, Mississippi Population: 17,733
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WKU Libraries faculty, staff, students, and friends enjoyed a presentation on Tuesday, October 22 in Helm 100 with Jonathan Jeffrey, WKU Special Collections Library Professor and Manuscripts/Folklife Archives Coordinator. Jeffrey took participants on a journey around the state through his visual display and discussion on “Housing the Dead: Grave Houses in Kentucky.” The grave house images illustrated the various types of resources used by families to build them and several came with unique stories shared by Jeffrey from his research. He explained the largest house was built in eastern Kentucky for four children who passed away from the same family and another house was built to keep a family member dry who had died in a body of water. At the conclusion of the program, a reception followed.
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Come to the Libraries: Open House this Saturday, 10 – 11:30am
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David Bell
WKU’s bestselling author David Bell, an Associate Professor of English, makes a return visit to WKU Libraries Kentucky Live! Southern Culture At Its Best series on Thursday, November 14th at 7:00 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 1680 Campbell Lane. He’ll be talking about the “key elements” in writing a good mystery novel and how they differ from regular fiction and reading from his newest novel. A book signing will follow.
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Samuel Marder, violin virtuoso
WKU Libraries and WKU’s Departments of Music, Sociology and Philosophy & Religion will host presentations Oct. 17-18 by Samuel Marder, professional violinist, author and Holocaust survivor. Marder will discuss his new book Devils Among Angels: A Journey From Paradise And Hell To Life at 7 p.m. Oct. 17 at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1680 Campbell Lane. Admission is free, open to the public, and a “swipeable” event for WKU students.
Marder was born in Czernowitz (Chernivtsi) in Romania where he lived with his sister and parents. He began studying the violin at age 6 in 1936. Three years later the Nazis invaded Poland and Romania joined the Axis. At the age of 10 he was living in a concentration camp in Transnistria, Ukraine where he was sharing a tiny room with 50 others, only 12 of whom would survive the ordeal. His father died of typhoid fever.
He, his sister and his mother were liberated after three and a half years’ incarceration eventually making their way to West Germany and then to New York to join his mother’s brother. After graduating from the Manhattan School of Music he became concertmaster and Assistant Conductor of the Leonard Bernstein Gala Orchestra and has since played with many orchestras and been a soloist at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall. He’s toured though Europe, South America, Israel and Korea and has been playing in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular orchestra since 1968. His arrangement of Canon in D Major by Johan Pachelbel for violin and piano is widely performed around the world.
Samuel Marder, present day
Devils Among Angels is a collection of short stories and poems inspired by memories of Marder’s childhood years before, during and after World War II and the Holocaust. He uses prose and poetry in both fiction and non-fiction to reflect on good and evil in the past and present.
Bryan Carson reviewed his book for the Sunday, October 13, 2013 Daily News.
Far Away Places event flyer
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An interesting 1965 children’s book, Meet John F. Kennedy, by Nancy Bean White has been recently donated to the WKU Special Collections Library. The book is filled with more than fifty, real-life photographs related to John F. Kennedy, his family, and his presidency. The book presents a realistic timeline of JFK from his childhood, the presidency, the family, and his tragic death.
The donor of this treasured book is Mary Bennett who lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Mrs. Bennett participated in the JFK Memory Project at WKU and was interviewed by the Manuscripts and Folklife Archives Librarian, Jonathan Jeffrey. Mrs. Bennett was shopping in downtown Dallas, Texas at the time of President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade on November 22, 1963. The Bennett family could not see the actual assassination from their location in the crowd, but Mr. Bennett and a fellow trucker friend were able to communicate with each other by “walkie talkies” to safely escape the chaotic events following the president’s assassination. President Kennedy’s traumatic assassination and the televised funeral procession prompted Mrs. Bennett to collect many memorable JFK items over the years.
The JFK Memory Project at WKU is currently collecting remembrances of Kennedy’s assassination, if anyone would like to contribute their memories of where they were on that fateful day when they first learned of President Kennedy’s death or watched the news and funeral on television. The JFK Memory Project at WKU is still collecting information about President John F. Kennedy’s visit to Bowling Green on October 8, 1960. If you or your family, friends, and neighbors remember President Kennedy’s visit to Kentucky or the JFK assassination events, please contact Jonathan Jeffrey at 270-745-5265 or jonathan.jeffrey@wku.edu to share your personal memories of these historical events.
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Marc Murphy, Editorial Cartoonist for the Courier-Journal of Louisville, KY
Marc Murphy is a native of Ashland, Kentucky where he grew up in the Appalachian steel and coal country. His father was a native of Prince Edward island, Canada while his mother’s family were of Slovenian heritage. His father was a TV and radio personality and his mother an accordion player. They met while both were performing at a TV station in Charleston, W.V.
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Banned Books Week display in the
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Banned Books Week is an annual event promoted by the American Library Association (ALA) celebrating the freedom to read. WKU Libraries celebrates 2013 Banned Books Week by encouraging patrons to “Jump on the Banned Wagon!” and read banned or challenged books.
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Courier-Journal editorial cartoonist Marc Murphy from Louisville, Kentucky will be speaking at Barnes & Noble on Thursday, October 10 as part of WKU Libraries’ Kentucky Live! lecture series. Murphy’s cartoons are nationally distributed and are published five times per week in the Courier-Journal.
Murphy’s works are now online in digital animation through the work of Digital Graphic Artist Chris Feldmann at the Courier-Journal. Murphy describes Feldman’s process as taking his art and “combining Steven Spielberg and Walt Disney.” Murphy says, “if you liked today’s cartoon, or more particularly…if you absolutely hated it, if you want to hate it even more, go to the Courier-Journal website and see it in all its animated glory.”
Samuel Marder, professional violinist and Holocaust survivor, will be speaking at Barnes & Noble on Thursday, October 17, on his recent book Devils among Angels: A Journey from Paradise and Hell to Life.
Devils among Angels is a collection of short stories and poems inspired by memories of Marder’s childhood years before, during, and after World War II and the Holocaust. He uses prose and poetry in both fiction and non-fiction to reflect on good and evil in the past and present.
Distinguished Professor of History Lisa Rosner, Ph.D., from Stockton College, writes about Marder’s book. “This is a transformative book in so many ways,” says Rosner. “Sam Marder takes the harrowing images of his childhood, shattered by the Nazis, and his experiences in concentration and refugee camps, and transforms them into stories, poems, and music. The reader is transformed by Marder’s striking images of angels and devils at work in human lives—and his calm reassurance of the ultimate victory of the angels. This book is required reading for anyone interested in the resilience of children, and creative genius, in the face of the Holocaust.”
Both programs will be held at 7 pm at Barnes & Noble Booksellers on Campbell Lane in Bowling Green, Kentucky. These are free events for anyone in the community. For more information, go to wku.edu/library.
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