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New Chautauqua characters (left to right): Lily May Ledford, Alben W. Barkley, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sallie Ward

Kentucky Humanities Council Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau August 1,1999 - July 31, 20.00

Contents

Credits 1

Introduction 2

Featured Speakers 3

Kentucky Chautauqua 14

More Speakers 19

Speakers Bureau Travel Map 23

Application Instructions 24

Application Forms insideBack Cover Credits

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1999-2000 KHC Speakers Bureau Introduction Welcome to the fourteenth edition of the Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau catalog! In 1999-2000, we're proud to bring you the biggest and best Speakers Bureau ever. We always say that, of course, and it's always true. This catalog includes twenty-two Featured Speakers, another thirty-seven speakers on our More Speakers roster, and seven Chautauqua characters. These sixty-six presenters are offering more than 130 programs for you to choose from. Your favorites are here, plus new talks on a stunning variety of subjects ranging from African-American music to Appalachian food to Admiral Husband E. Kimmel. We hope you enjoy our latest speakers smorgasbord, and we thank you for using the Speakers Bureau so enthusiastically and for supporting it so generously.

Important points to remember about the Speakers Bureau: >• Our programs are free to community groups anywhere in Kentucky. Minimum audience size: 25 adults for talks; 40 adults for Chautauqua. > The Speakers Bureau is not available free for classroom or student programs or to college sponsors. It is available at cost ($225 for speakers; $350 for Chautauqua) to these groups and to for-profit organizations. There is no limit on the number of programs a sponsor can purchase. >• A nonprofit organization is limited to two free Speakers Bureau pro grams, including one free Chautauqua performance, each year (August through July). There is a $35 application fee, which covers up to two free programs per sponsor. This fee is nonrefundable if the program you selected is available. It will be returned if your program is not available. > Admission to Speakers Bureau programs must be free. (You may charge admission to talks or Chautauqua performances your group has purchased through KHC.) > KHC pays each speaker's honorarium and travel directly. Sponsors are responsible for overnight accommodations, if needed. > All Featured Speakers and Chautauqua performers will travel statewide. Those listed under More Speakers may, as noted in the listings, restrict their travel to certain regions. > Speakers Bureau funding runs out quickly, often before September 1. Please apply early, even for programs late in the funding period. Application instructions and forms are at the back of this catalog. > If you have questions or problems, please call Cathy Ferguson at the Kentucky Humanities Council, 606/257-5932.

1999-2000 KHC Speakers Bureau Featured Speakers

African-American musical traditions

African and African-American Musical Connections in Appalachia In this talk/demonstration. Bullock traces the development of African-American music in Appalachia. Beginning with the African musical heritage, she moves to this side of the Atlantic to look at folk songs, spirituals, work songs, blues and gospel music. Asshe explores the connections between the African tradition and the new American experience. Bullock shows how this music is a path to a better understanding of African-American culture in Appalachia and America. Kathy W. Microphone. Half-inch VCR and monitor, CD or tape player, and piano are Bullock helpful but not necessary. Ifno piano, please provide an outlet for an electric keyboard and a small table to put it on. Associate Professor of Music Singing in the Spirit: African-American Sacred Music Tradition BereaCollege Spirituals and gospel music are much more than pleasing, comforting sounds— 1020Moonlight Drive they are a powerful reflection of the triumphant spirit and faith of African-Ameri Berea, KY 40403 cans. This talk/demonstration includes audience participation. Home: 606-986-6088 Microphone; CDor tape playerand pianoare helpful but not necessary. Ifno Fax:606-986-6115 piano, please provide an outlet for an electric keyboard and a small table to put it

on.

Tales of heaven and earth

Seasons of Celebration Many traditional holidays originated in the seasonal changes of earth and sky. FromGroundhog Day to Halloween, our holidays hearken back to ancienttimes, reflecting the rhythms of nature. Burnes explores these connections through songs and stories from the Appalachian and European folk traditions. Microphone; slide projector and screen.

Roberta M. Simple Gifts: Songs of the Shakers Burnes The Shakers had a remarkable influence on the economic and religious life of Kentucky. Dressed in 19th-century costume, Burnes uses Shaker songs and dances Performing artist/educator to reveal the human side of these intensely spiritual people.

154 Hamilton Park Microphone on stand. Lexington, KY 40504 Home; 606-225-3866 Star Stories and Comet Tales For thousands of years, people have been watching the stars and tellingstories of the constellations. Burnes brings the human fascination with the heavens alive in this program of star lore from around the world. Microphone; slide projector and screen.

1999-2000 KHC Speakers Bureau Featured Speakers

From mind maps to Okieville

Mind Mapping: The Consequences of Contemporary Neuroscience The neurosciences are in the middle of a miraculous, and frightening, revolution. Soon, thanks to mind mapping, it will be possible to manipulate a person's thoughts and emotions, raising ethical, spiritual and political dilemmas much thornier than any we've faced before. Microphone; carousel slide projector with remote control, stand, and screen.

Michael Why IWas Bornin Okieville: The Dust Bowl and Western Migration Campbell Campbell, born in southern California, is a descendant of the migrants called Okies. In this talk, he puts what he calls his "odd family history" into the historical Assistant Professor and cultural context of the 1930s, when refugees from the drought-ravaged Mid of English west — the Dust Bowl — flocked to California. Department of English Microphone; carousel slide projector with remote control, stand, and screen. Georgetown College Georgetown, KY 40324 Country Music: How it Got to Be"Country" Office: 502-863-8090 Why is country music called country? How did early fans see it as different from Home: 606-381-9460 other kinds of music, and where does it get its hallmark quality, authenticity? These are some of the questionsCampbellwill explore as he digs into the history of this hugely popular music. Microphone; tape or CD player.

The Appalachian melting pot Aliens in Appalachia: Immigrant Life in the Coal Fields Beginning in about 1870, people from all over the world started arriving in eastern Kentucky to work in the coal mines. Italians, Hungarians, Poles, Arabs, Mexicans, Russians, and many others turned up in the mountains — it wasn't uncommon to find twenty or more languages spoken in a single coal camp. In this talk, Cantrell will discuss the various immigrant groups and the communities they created to adjust to life in the coal fields of eastern Kentucky. Douglas E. No equipment required. Cantrell Himlerville:AHungarian Villagein EasternKentucky Associate Professor of In Martin County, a group of Hungarian immigrants launched a unique History experiment in cooperative capitalism when they founded a town and a coal Department of History company named after their leader, Martin Himler. Himlerville was like a village Elizabethtown Community in Hungary — traditional dress and language were standard. More important, the College Himler Coal Company was collectively owned by its workers, who, in addition to 600College St. Road wages, got dividends on the stock they owned. Cantrell will tell the colorfulstory Elizabethtown, KY 42701 of Himlerville, which ended in bankruptcy in 1929. Office: 270-769-2371, No equipment required. ext. 402

1999-2000 KMC Speakers Bureau Featured Speakers

Exhibiting women

The Fair Ladies The Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 featured a Women's Building celebrating the endeavors of American women. In this slide-illustrated talk, Crowe Carraco recounts how the talents of three Kentucky women — Bertha Palmer, Sadie Price, and Enid Yandell — helped make the exhibit a success. Lectern; carousel slide projector with remote control, stand, and screen.

Carol Crowe Edward Hicks and the World of the Peaceable Kingdom Carraco An early nineteenth-century minister, carriage painter, and folk artist, Edward Hicks envisioned a world in which the lion and the lamb, not to mention other Professor of History animals, would lie down in harmony. Using slides, Crowe Carraco will discuss History Department Hicks' values and attitudes as revealed in his paintings. Western Kentucky Lectern; carousel slide projector with remote control, stand, and screen. University Bowling Green, KY42101 Simple Silver: Antebellum Southern Kentucky Silversmiths Office: 270-745-5728 Antebellum silver artifacts from southern Kentucky, unlike those from the Blue- Home: 270-842-8804 grass, are scarce. That scarcity, and the simple design of the pieces that do exist, reveal much about life in southern Kentucky in the years before the Civil War. Lectern; carousel slide projector with remote control, stand, and screen.

Rivers run through it

The Rivers of Kentucky Kentucky has more miles of streams than any state except Alaska. To get to know Kentucky's soul, it's been said, visit its rivers,of which there are almost forty. Dick's talkexplores how rivers connect us with our past, presentand future. Lectern.

Home Sweet Kentucky David A sequel to The Quiet Kentuckiaus, Dick's new book, co-written with Eulalie Dick, includes visits with more memorable Kentuckians — real people with real values. Dick Lectern. Author; former CBS News correspondent You Can Go Home Again, and Probably Should Home, says Dick, is still the repository of our memories and values, but it is also, 1101 Plum Lick Road thanks to technology, a new frontier of opportunity for the individual. Paris, KY 40361 Lectern. Home: 606-383-4366 The Scourges of Heaven The historical novel The Scourges ofHeaven is Dick's latest book. It tells the story of the first of the devastating cholera epidemics that swept through Kentucky in the nineteenth century. Lectern; half-inch VCR with monitor.

1999-2000 KHC Speakers Bureau Featured Speakers

The plagues that bug us

History, Misery and Microbes Of history's ten greatest calamities, five were epidemics. In this talk, Doyle will survey the impact of epidemics on human institutions, including warfare, popula tion movements, art, organized labor, and religion. Was an epidemic one of the causes of the Reformation? Did the Black Death pave the way for modern English? Microphone; carousel slide projector with remote control, stand, and screen.

Ron J. Plagues and Painters Doyle Sickness and suffering have inspired a lot of great art. Painters have responded to the widespread misery of plagues and epidemics with many masterpieces. Professor of Biochemistry Medieval art is rich in scenes of plagues and other horrors. So is the art of later Dept. of Microbiology centuries. And sometimes a sick painter, such as Goya, produced a great work out University of Louisville of personal illness and despair. Health Sciences Center Microphone; carousel slide projector with remote control, stand, and screen. Louisville, KY 40292 Office: 502-852-5350 Plagues and Pestilences in the Bible Home; 502-267-6336 The Bible describes numerous devastating epidemics. In this talk, Doyle will put the biblical descriptions under the microscope, revealing what the diseases in question may have been. From anthrax to typhus, it's an all-star cast of microbes. Microphone; carousel slide projector with remote control, stand, and screen.

Dissecting a disaster

Inside the Beverly Hills SupperClub Fire For his book Inside the Bei'erly Hills Supyper Club Fire, Elliott interviewed many survivors of the May 28,1977 disaster. This talk takes you "inside the fire" to experience, first hand, the horror and heroism of that fateful evening in Southgate, Kentucky. Carousel slide projector with remote control, stand, and screen.

Ronald E. Who Shot Bill Goebel? Elliott Of all the episodes of violence in Kentucky history, the assassination of Gover nor William Goebel is the most politically significant. Elliott, author of Assassina Author tion at the State House, describes the political climate surrounding the shooting and 592 Garriott Lane its aftermath, which caused Kentucky politics to be called "the damndest." Harrodsburg, KY40330 Carousel slide projector with remote control, stand, and screen. Office: 606-259-2323 Home: 606-865-4018 Admiral Kimmel's Story When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Admiral Hus band E. Kimmel, a native of Henderson, Kentucky, was in command of the U. S. Na\ y's Pacific fleet. He was soon relieved of his command. This is the story of Kimmel's fight to defend himself against charges that he had been negligent. Carousel slide projector with remote control, stand, and screen.

1999-2000 KHC Speakers Bureau Featured Speakers

The reading life I Cannot Live Without Books: Confessions of a Bibliophile "People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." So said one of the many book lovers quoted in Kevin Graffagnino's 0/i/y in Books: Writers, Readers & Bibliophiles on Their Passion. An unrepentant bibliophile himself, Graffagnino drav^^s on a quarter-century of experience as bookseller, librarian, collector, historian, and author for this amusing talk on the glorious past, impressive present, and uncer tain future of the book. "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend; inside of a J. Kevin dog, it's too dark to read." (Groucho Marx) Graffagnino Lectern. Director The Powerofthe PioneerPress: Early Printersand Printing in Kentucky Kentucky Historical Society Kentucky's early printers produced books, pamphlets, and newspapers that had 100 W. Broadway considerable impact on the politics, religion, and society of the Commonwealth in Frankfort, KY 40601 its formative years. In this slide-illustrated talk, Graffagnino combines images of Office: 502-564-1792 early Kentucky imprints with an analysis of the role books and printing played in Kentucky life between 1792 and the Civil War. Lectern; carousel slide projector with remote control, stand, and screen.

The road to freedom

The Underground Railroad in Kentucky West of the Appalachians, the Ohio River was the border between slavery and freedom. Thousands of slaves crossed it each year, many with the assistance of the Underground Railroad. Hudson will explore the operations, notable events, and fascinating personalities connected with the Underground Railroad in Kentucky. Lectern; microphone.

J. Blaine Kentucky During the Era of Segregation; 1865-1950 Hudson Racial attitudes hardened and racial conflicts intensified in Kentucky following the Civil War. Black Kentuckians were free, but they faced formidable obstacles in Associate Professor their struggle for a better life. This talk is an overview of African-American life in and Chair Kentucky during the era of legal segregation. Dept. of Pan African Studies Lectern; microphone. University of Louisville Louisville, KY 40292 The Civil Rights Era in Kentucky: 1950-1970 Office: 502-852-5506 The dismantling of legal segregation was as dramatic in Kentucky as it was in the rest of the nation. Hudson will survey the civil rights era, then conclude with an assessment of the current status of African Americans and race relations in the

state. Lectern; microphone.

1999-2000 KHC Speakers Bureau Featured Speakers

Mammy's story

Hattie McDaniel and the Making of Gone With The Wind Hattie McDaniel, who played Mammy in Gone zuith the Wind, was the first African-American to win an Academy Award. In this talk, based on his biography of McDaniel, Jackson tells how she came to play Mammy, and describes some of the arrangements she and other black actors in the movie insisted on. Lectern.

Carlton From Comrade to Citizen: Joseph Gavi of Louisville Jackson This is the story of Joseph Gavi's two lives: his current one as a Louisville restaurateur, and his former life in the Soviet Union. A native of Minsk, he fought Professor of History the Germans in the Minsk ghetto in World War II. Later he became a mountain History Department climber and a physiologist. Gavi emigrated to the United States in 1978. Western Kentucky Lectern. University Bowling Green, KY42101 Martin Ritt and the Making of Social Film in the United States Office; 270-745-5730 Based on Jackson's biography of Martin Ritt, Picking Up the Tab, this talk ex Home; 270-526-6045 plores the work of a film director whose movies have taken on the major social issues of our time. Ritt's films include Hiid, Norma Rne, Sounder, Conrack, The Great White Hope, and The Spy Who Came infrom the Cold. Lectern.

Let there be light

A Revolution in Lighting: The Springfield Gas Machine at Ashland At Ashland, Henry Clay's estate in Lexington, archaeologists have recently sq uncovered a self-contained gas lighting system called the Springfield Gas Machine. Such systems allowed homes and businesses beyond the reach of municipal gas works to get in on the lighting revolution that began in the mid-nineteenth century. Linebaugh will explore the great impact gas lighting had on American social and economic life. Donald W. Lectern; carousel slide projector with remote control, stand, and screen. Linebaugh The Early Chesapeake: Everyday Life in 17th-century America Director In this talk, Linebaugh will describe the life styles of some rich but not so famous Program for Archaeological Virginians. Recent archaeological investigations have shed new light on the liv^es of Research the early settlers at such sites as Jamestown and Williamsburg. It turns out that University of Kentucky they often lived a lot better than we thought they did. 1020A Export Street Lectern; carousel slide projector with remote control, stand, and screen. Lexington, KY40506-9854 Office; 606-257-1944 Fax; 606-323-1968

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Folk tales: Stories we live by

Kentucky Ghostlore In this latest update of his popular talk, Montell describes the abundance of folk beliefs and stories surrounding the final sickness, burial, and death of human beings, and of spirit returns of the deceased as ghosts. He'll also answer the question, "What are ghosts?" Lectern and microphone.

Lynwood Stories About Home Montell Thanks to traditional stories and legends, Kentuckians maintain strong ties with the place where they were born and perhaps grew to maturity. Numerous ex Emeritus Professor amples will show how traditional stories nurture generational continuity and of Folk Studies create a strong sense of place. Western Kentucky Lectern and microphone. University 3673 Gott-Hydro Road Kentucky Folk Architecture Oakland, KY 42159 Folk architecture consists of buildings constructed for local people, by local Office; 270-745-6478 people, using local building materials. Montell will show color slides as he de Home: 270-563-4373 scribes Kentucky buildings, including many pre-World War II houses and barns, that fit this definition. Lectern and microphone; carousel slide projector with remote control, screen.

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Kentucky Women: Two Centuries of Indomitable Spirit and Vision Women, says Potter, are the missing element in Kentucky history, trapped by poverty, privilege, war, illiteracy, and religion. In this talk, based on her book Kentiicki/ Women: Two Centuries of Indomitable Spirit and Vision, Potter celebrates Kentucky women for their pride, perseverance, strength, and dignity. This pro gram includes slides, and can be tailored to audiences on the basis of region, age, and other factors. Genie K. Carousel slide projector with screen. Potter Eastern Kentucky Women: A Lasting Legacy Writer Listen to the stories of women who, faced with much adversity, still achieved

2 Rebel Road great things, improving the quality of life and promoting the culture of eastern Louisville, KY 40206 Kentucky. From Mary Breckinridge, founder of the Frontier Nursing Service, to Home: 502-896-2626 legendary traditional singer Lily May Ledford, to Belinda Mason, whose eloquence was a beacon for her fellow AIDS sufferers, this slide-illustrated talk reminds us of what courage and perseverance can accomplish. Carousel slide projector with screen.

1999-2000 KHC Speakers Bureau Featured Speakers

A Kentucky empire

Falls of Rough: A Feudal Estate in Nineteenth-century Kentucky In the early nineteenth century, Willis Green created an empire at Falls of Rough in Grayson and Breckinridge counties. In this talk, which draws on more than 10,000 pieces of Green family personal and business correspondence, Ridenour tells how Green succeeded spectacularly as a landowner, businessman, and politician (he was a friend of Henry Clay). Ridenour will also discuss the colorful career of Green's nephew and heir, Lafayette. This presentation features a display Hugh of Green family memorabilia, including photos, clothing, ledger books, and letters. Ridenour No equipment required. Writer; retired teacher A Surgeon's Tale: Life and Death in the Orphan Brigade 1715 Stagecoach Road As a surgeon attached to various regiments of the famous Orphan Brigade, John Hanson, KY 42413 Orlando Scott practiced his trade at numerous Civil War battles, including Shiloh, Home; 270-825-1533 Hartsville, and Stone's River. A native of Franklin County, Kentucky, Scott eventu ally settled in Texas, where he became a prominent member of the United Confed erate Veterans. This talk is based on articles he wrote about his war experiences and on scrapbooks he and his daughter kept for half-a-century. Ridenour will display several of these remarkable scrapbooks. No equipment required.

They made our world

The Greatest Generation in Kentucky and America In his bestselling book, journalist Tom Brokaw praised the men and women who came of age during the Depression and World War II as "the greatest generation any society has ever produced." Share's talk will focus on that generation in Kentucky, highlighting the challenges it faced and the contributions it made. Lectern.

Allen J. Henry Clay: Kentucky's Most Influential Politician Share Henry Clay was a major player in our national politics for over forty years. This talk will explore the life and legacy of the most influential politician in the history Instructor of Histor\' of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, University of Louisville Lectern. Jefferson Communitv College The Titanic Disaster in American Culture 1711 Meadovvgate Lane The success of the recent movie about the Titanic proves just how deeply this Louisville, KY 40223-1113 disaster is embedded in our culture. Share will look at how Americans of the time Home: 502-429-5965 interpreted the Titanic disaster, and used it in debates over the most important issues of the age. Lectern.

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The writing Life

Write When You Get Work: The Struggles of a Kentucky Novelist Before he became a novelist, Sherburne toiled in the advertising vineyards. He tells how he escaped and went on to publish ten successful historical novels and murder mysteries. He'll also discuss the craft of fiction writing and the writer's market today. Lectern.

James R. McCarthyism in Kentucky: Remembering Louisville's Br^den Case Sherburne In 1954, amid the anticommunist hysteria whipped up by Senator Joseph McCarthy, radical Louisville journalist Carl Braden was convicted of sedition Novelist and Playwright against the state of Kentucky. Working in Louisville at the time, Sherburne was a 128Chautauqua Avenue close observer of the case, which he calls "witch-hunting at its most emotional." Lawrenceburg, KY40342 Lectern. Home: 502-839-4256 Kentucky History: Center Stage! For six years Sherburne and his late wife, actress Nancy Sherburne, roamed Kentucky from Pikeville to Paducah, presenting one-character historical dramas. He relates some of their adventures, and offers advice on creating local historical plays. Lectern.

What's for dinner

Appalachian Foods: Defining a Culture Sohn says there's a world-class cuisine in Appalachia, and he's written an award-winning cookbook to prove it — Mountain Country Cooking. He's also food and cooking editor of the Enci/clopedia of Appalachia. This talk will describe the mountains and people of Appalachia, but it's mainly about their food. Chef Sohn will have your mouth watering for apple butter, soup beans, stack cakes, gritted corn bread, chocolate gravy, fried ramps, liver mush, slick dumplings, pot likker, Mark F. buttermilk, cream pull candy, shuck beans, and much more. Don't come hungry! Sohn In addition to giving a talk about food, Sohn could help your group prepare an Appalachian dinner from Mountain Country Cooking. Don't forget to ask him about Television chef and this option when you call to book this talk. . cookbook author; Professor of Psychologv Food and the French: The History of a Great Love Affair PikevilleCollege He wrote the book on Appalachian cooking, but Mark Sohn also knows French 103Honeysuckle Drive food. In fact, he is a Paris-trained chef and visits France to study and eat. In this Pikeville, KY 41501 talk, Sohn will show how the de\'elopment of French cuisine is related to French Home: 606-437-6467 history and culture. Fax;606-437-7837 Lectern; carousel slide projector and screen.

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Rituals of love and death

All Dressed in Black: Victorian Death, Grief, and Sentimentality In the nineteenth century, life was different, and so was death, which was surrounded by elaborate rituals that by now have been greatly altered or dis carded altogether. Dressed in mourning attire. Stone will teach you how our Victorian ancestors mourned. She will describe Victorian funerals and their symboHsm, and show the kinds of photographs, jewelry, invitations, and mementoes that families would have used in their mourning. Sue Lynn Lectern; six-foot table for display. Stone Miss Fannie the Flirt University Archivist Born in 1870, Fannie Morton Bryan grew up in Russellville and graduated from The Kentucky Building Logan Female College. At age eighteen she began to keep a diary. Drawing on that Western Kv. University diary as well as contemporary magazines, newspapers, and etiquette manuals. Bowling Green, KY42101 Stone explores Fannie's world of adolescents who pass the time in courtship and Office; 270-745-4793 flirting. Stone illustrates this talk with slides, and will wear an 1890s costume. Home; 270-781-2336 Lectern; carousel slide projector with remote control and screen.

From Appalachia to academia Turning Obstacles into Opportunities: An Appalachian Upbringing How does a child born in a two-room cabin in a Clay County hollow grow up to be a university professor with a Ph.D.? In this talk, Thompson will tell how he did it, with emphasis on the richness as well as the difficulties of his mountain up bringing. Touching on topics that include Appalachian history and customs, race relations, familv influences, and education, this is an uplifting storv, spiced with humor and with lessons in life for any Kentuckian of any age. Aaron No equipment required.

Thompson Four Steps to Living an Unbiased Life Associate Professor Deli\ ered in a fun yet provocati\'e manner, this talk takes an audience through a of Sociology four-step process of freeing themselves from unwanted bias toward those who are Eastern Kentucky "different." Thompson has gi\'en this presentation widely and it is especially University popular with organizations and institutions that want to expand the diversity 839 Three Forks Road within their walls. Richmond, KY 40475 No equipment required. Office; 606-622-1358 Home: 606-623-5325 Fax: 606-622-5887

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Potions and Plows

Take a Feather from a Ground Hog: Eastern Kentucky Folk Medicine Tucker, who's working on a book about folk medicine, has interviewed thousands of eastern Kentuckians about how they treated themselves and their animals when they were sick or injured. This talk will include not only the remedies Tucker uncovered, but the wonderful stories that went with them as well. Lectern and microphone.

Ernest M. Tools, Implements, and Devices from Kentucky's Immediate Past Tucker Tucker has collected hundreds of tools, implements, and devices used by Kentuckians on farms and in shops, mines and kitchens. Including spinning Professor of History wheels, wool winders, blacksmith tools, woodworking tools, and much more, the Ashland Community collection illustrates how much things have changed in rural Kentucky over the College past century. The presentation features an impressive display of tools and lots of 510 West Pamela Drive humor. Ashland, KY 41102 Lectern and microphone; five long tables for displays. Office; 606-329-2999 Ext. 233

The battle for Kentucky's soul How the South Won the War after the Shooting Stopped During the Civil War, Kentucky sent many more soldiers into the Union Army than into the Confederate Army. But after the shooting stopped, the predominance of Union sympathies ended too. Southern sympathizers and Confederate veterans, says Wetherington, won the postwar battle for the hearts and minds of Kentuck ians, and the state was soon much more Southern in outlook than it had been when the war started. Mark V. Lectern.

Wetherington Kentucky: America's Forgotten West Director During the late 1700s, Kentuckv was the American West, and it had all the right Filson Club Historical stuff — buffalo, cattle drives, forts, frontiersmen, and Indians. The frontier soon Society moved farther west, but e\'en in the late 1800s historians recalled Kentucky's 1310 South Third Street important role as the "first West," Now, though, awareness of Kentuckv's part in Louisville, KY 40208 the nation's westward push has been overwhelmed in the popular imagination by Office; 502-635-5083 the cowboy stereotype. In this talk, Wetherington asks "Wliat happened?" Lectern.

1999-2000 KMC Speakers Bureau 13 FOUR NEW CHARACTERS FOR 1999-2000! Kentucky Chautauqua Bringing History to Life

The Kentucky Humanities Council is proud to present Kentucky Chautauqua, featuring historically accurate impersonations of seven fascinating characters from Kentucky's past. A unique combination of education and entertainment, Kentucky Chautau qua performances are available through the 1999-2000. Speakers Bureau. Please read these instructions carefully! • KHC is offering 104 free Chautauqua performances in 1999-2000. First come, first served. •A nonprofit sponsor is limited to one free Kentucky Chautauqua program during the year. No exceptions. • Chautauqua is intended for audiences of forty or more. Please do not schedule for smaller groups. •A sponsor who applies too late or desires additional Chautauqua performances can purchase them at our cost — $350 per program. You may charge admission to performances your group has purchased. • All Kentucky Chautauqua performances, whether free or paid, will be scheduled through the usual Speakers Bureau application process. • Please remember, you must contact the performer and confirm arrangements for free or paid programs before submitting an application. If you don't, your program will not take place as you planned. • Questions or problems? Please call Cathy Ferguson at KHC, 606-257-5932.

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Alben W. Barkley The Veep 1877-1956 His rEACiiERS predicted he would be president, but Alben Barkley had to settle for the vice-presidency. The greatest legislator and orator Kentucky produced in the 20th century, Barkley was the son of Portrayed by: Graves County tobacco farmers. After college, he read law, passed the DonaldJohnson bar, and opened an office in Paducah. His political career started when Living History Presenter he was elected McCracken County attorney in 1906, and climaxed 43 years later when he was sworn in as Harry Truman's vice president — 337 West Willow Drive "The Veep." By that time — 1949— this Paducah Democrat had spent Mayfield, KY 42066 Home: 270-247-1973 14 years in the U. S. House and 22 years in the Senate, where he rose to be majority leader and worked closely with President Roosevelt. Requirements: 10' x 10' Taking advantage of Barkley's vast experience. President Truman playing area; podium included him in high-level deliberations, making him the first real working vice president in American history. Barkley went out in style, dying of a heart attack while giving a speech in April, 1956.

Simon B. Buckner n General and Governor 1823-1914 SIMON Boi-Ivar Blcknek got around. He was aConfederate general, but he was a pallbearer at the funeral of Ulysses Grant as well as that of Jefferson Davis. A native of Hart County, Kentucky, Buckner Portrayed by: was an 1844 graduate of West Point, where he and Grant became Duane Murner friends. Buckner pursued a military career until 1855, then resigned to Living History Presenter help manage his wife's family's extensive business interests in Chicago.

8502 Todds Point Road By the time the Civil War started, he was back in Kentucky. He tried to Crestwood, KY 40014 preserve the state's neutrality, but when that failed he rejected a Home: 502-241-5971 commission in the Union Army and joined the Confederacy, rising to the rank of Lieutenant General by war's end. In 1887, Buckner was Requirements: 10' x 10' elected governor of Kentucky, one of a long line of Democrats with playing area Confederate tics who held the office in the post-War years. He retired from politics after running for vice-president of the U. 5. in 1896 on a third-party ticket headed by a former Union general.

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Henry Clay Kentucky's Great Statesman 1777-1852 Above all, Hemky Clay wanted to be president of the United States. L Despite never quite making it — he came very close— Clay made an indelible mark on the history of his country, which he served Portrayed by: as a Senator, as Speaker of the House, and as Secretary of State. Born George McGee and educated in Virginia, Clay moved to Kentucky and set up a law Director of Theatre, practice in Lexington in 1797. Elected to the state legislaturein 1803, he Georgetown College won a seat in the U. S. House in IBIL For the next forty years, he was a 2025 Longview Drive major player on the national political scene. Slavery posed a great Georgetown, KY 40324 political and personal quandary for Clay. A slaveholder himself, he Office: 502-863-8162 advocated gradual emancipation and colonization in Africa. In Con Home: 502-863-9542 gress, he opposed extension of slavery into the new western states. Married to Lucretia Hart in 1799, Henry Clay fathered eleven chil Requirements: 10' x 10' dren. He died in Washington and is buried in Lexington Cemetery. playing area

Lily May Ledford Coon Creek Girl 1917-1985 WHEN Lily May Ledford was ayoung girl in the Red River Gorge in eastern Kentucky, she wanted a fiddle so badly that she traded Portrayed by: her most precious possession — a box of crayons — for a broken-down instrument that didn't have strings or tuning pegs or a bow. It turned Sandy Harmon out to be a good deal because that fiddle helped launch a career that Living History Presenter gave Ledford and her Kentucky mountain music a national audience. In 1936, Ledford went to Chicago to perform on WLS Radio's National 843 Watson Lane Barn Dance. The next year Ledford's manager, John Lair, assembled a Henderson, KY 42420 string band featuring Ledford's distinctive banjo style. Named the Home:270-827-2983 Coon Creek Girls, it was the first all-female string band. In 1939, the Requirements; 10' x 10' Coon Creek Girls began an 18-year run on the Renfro Valley Barn playing area Dance radio show. That same year the group played at the White House for President and Mrs. Roosevelt and their guests, the King and Queen of England. The Coon Creek Girls disbanded in 1957.

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Simon Kenton

Frontiersman 1755-1836 SIMON Kenton, thinking he had killed another boy in afight over a girt fled west from Virginia at the age of 16. He was wrong — he Portrayed by; had only knocked his rival unconscious — but the incident launched him on a life of high adventure. By the time he was 20, Kenton had Mel Hankla fetched up on the Kentucky shore of the Ohio River in what is now Educator and Mason County. From there he proceeded to car\ e out a remarkable flintlock gunsmith career as an explorer and frontiersman. A compatriot of Daniel Boone 106 Bunny Trail "Trails End' and George Rogers Clark, Kenton was a legendary Indian fighter and Jamestown, KY 42629 became Kentucky's self-appointed welcomer-in-chief. From his post in Home: 270-343-3081 Mason County, he personally greeted many of the early arrivals in what was then the far west. Requirements: 10' x 10' Kenton married twice and had ten children. He became a wealthy playing area man, but lost his land. Unable to read or write, he spent his final years in poverty in Ohio.

___ , Miss , T'l Dinnie Thompson Vo Ordinary Woman 1857-1939 IN ONE SENSE, Miss Dinnie Thompson was ordinary, aworkaday person who was ne\'er rich or famous. But, as a representative of all those black Kentucky women who made good lives in the late 19th Portrayed by: and early 20th centuries despite slavery, prejudice, and hardship, she is Erma J. Bush anything but ordinary. Dinnie was born a slave in the household of a Actress & Playwright member of Louisville's renowned Speed family. Her mother was a freedom-loving woman who took Dinnie along on se\ eral attempts to Contact: Juanita L. White escape across the Ohio River. They were caught everv time. 10203 Cambrie Court After emancipation. Miss Dinnie worked for almost 30 years as a Louisville. KY 40241 laundress. Then, for 26 years, she was a maid at Louisville's Neighbor Home: 502-327-7885 hood House. There she became friends with a young social worker named Elizabeth Wilson. Through their friendship. Miss Dinnie Requirements: 10' x 10' Thompson's extraordinary story has been preserved as a testimony to playing area the memorv of thousands of "ordinarv" women like her.

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Sallie Ward Queen of Society 1827-1896 S ALLIE Ward was born and raised to be aSouthern belle, and she played the role incomparably. The daughter of a wealthy family, Portrayed by; she grew up in a Louisville mansion and, after attending a French finishing school in Philadelphia, embarked on one of the nineteenth Suzi Schuhmann century's most memorable social careers. Pretty, quick-witted, uncon Living History Presenter ventional, and spoiled, Ward enjoyed widespread popularity not only in Louisville but in fashionable haunts in the eastern U. S. and in 1310 Cherokee Road Louisville, KY 40204 Europe. Her behavior could be scandalous — she once wore bloomers Home: 502-454-3042 to a Boston ball — but was often trendsetting — she introduced fancy dress balls and opera glasses to Kentucky, and was the first lady of Requirements: 10' x 10' high station to use cosmetics. Married four times — divorced once and playing area widowed twice — Ward found time to hold frequent benefit balls for the poor. Her doings were hot news for more than half a century. She enjoyed it all, and advised her family not to bury her until three days after her death, in case she was just resting.

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18 1999-2000 KHC Speakers Bureau More Speakers Speakers on these pages are also available through the Speakers Bureau. For those whose travel is regional, please see the map on page 23. When you call these speakers, be sure to ask about equipment they may need, such as a lectern, microphone, slide projector, or VCR. Daytime phone number is listed first.

BELL, KELLY P., 1477 Old Glasgow Road, Edmonton, KY 42120-9061. Travel: Statewide. 270/432-4597. ^ I Am a Kentucky Farmer: The Family Farm in Kentucky ^ Growing Up in Kentucky: Tales of Rural Life

BRADY, ERIKA, Programs in Folk Studies, IWFAC 251, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green KY 42101. Travel: Region 4. 270/745-5902. ^ For Every III a Cure: Kentucky Folk Medicine, Yesterday and Today The Fruit of the Family Tree: Harvesting Your Family Folklore

CARTER, ROBERT E., 6571 Perryville Road, Danville KY 40422. Travel: Statewide. 606/238-7099. ^ Politics and Religion in Kentucky Higher Education ^ Ephraim's Older Brother; Colonel Joseph McDowell's Story

CALHOUN-FRENCH, DIANE, Jefferson Community College-Southwest, 1000 Community College Dr., Louisville, KY 40272. Travel: Statewide. 502/935-9840 (x. 3201); 502/833-2334. Manners and Morals in Murder Mysteries ^ The Five Books Every Woman Must Read

CANON, BRADLEY C., Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0027. Travel: Regions 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 606/257-4895; 606/278-6155. ^ The Affirmative Action Debate: An Analysis of the Arguments ^ Religion and the Constitution in the 1990s

CLAYPOOL, JAMES C., History Department, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights KY 41099. Travel; Statewide. 606/572-5373; 502/431-1341. Kentucky is Our Land: A Musical Journey Throughout the Commonwealth The Derby: A Celebration of Kentucky and its Heritage

CRAIG, BERRY, 409 Highland Street, Mavfield KY 42066. Tra\'ei: Statewide. 270/554-9200 (ext. 6177); 270/247-8960. •'• The Three Bs of Kentucky Politics: Bombast, Burgoo and Bourbon ^ Stovepipe Johnson and the Great Newburgh Raid of 1862

1999-2000 KHC Speakers Bureau 19 More Speakers Speakers on these pages are also available through the Speakers Bureau. For those whose travel is regional, please see the map on page 23. When you call these speakers, be sure to ask about equipment they may need, such as a lectern, microphone, slide projector, or VCR. Daytime phone number is listed first.

CLARK, THOMAS D., 175 Kentucky Avenue, Lexington KY 40502. Travel: Inquire of speaker. 606/255-9139. i*- Kentucky: A Look Back at the Twentieth Century Kentucky: Some Unfinished Business

DAWSON, NELSON L., 306 Stilz Avenue, Louisville, KY 40206. Travel: Regions 3, 5, 6. 502/635-5083; 502/896-6810. Justice Louis D. Brandeis: Liberal or Conservative? J. B. Matthews: Odyssey of a Fellow Traveler

DEW, ALOMA W., 2015 Griffith Place E., Owensboro, KY 42301. Travel: Statewide. 270/685-2034; FAX 270/926-3196. ^ Mentally Free: Emily Tubman, An Independent Southern Woman ^ Political Activist vs. Southern Belle: Conflicting Views of Women's Suffrage

DEW, LEE A., 2015 Griffith Place E., Owensboro, KY 42301. Travel: Statewide. 270/685-2034; FAX 270/926-3196. ^ Barbecue: It's Not Just What We Eat... It's Who We Are » Agriculture: Kentucky's Least-known Resource

ELLIS, WILLIAM E., 123 Pleasant Ridge Drive, Richmond KY 40475. Travel: Statewide. 606/623-9212. Whither the Kentucky?: The River, The People, The Land The Great Depression: Drought, Flood and Famine Stalk the Land

ESTEVEZ, MILTON, 3008 Bradford Grove Lane, Louisville KY 40220-5711. Travel; 3, 4, 5, 6. 502/499-5949; Fax: 502/493-8616. ^ Shifting Ancestors: Cultural Sources of Music from the Americas ^ Music and History in Ecuador

GIFFORD, JAMES M., Jesse Stuart Foundation, P. O. Box 391, Ashland, KY 41114. Travel: Statewide. 606/329-5232. Appalachian Humor Jesse Stuart: The Man and His Books

HARRISON, LOWELL H., 704 Logan Way. Bowling Green KY 42101-2952. Travel; Regions 2, 3, 4. 270/745-5744; 270/843-1258. ^ Lincoln and Kentucky •"♦ Kentucky's Confederate Government

20 1999-2000 KHC Speakers Bureau HENDERSON, A. GWYNN, Kentucky Archaeological Survey, 1020A Export Street, Lexington, KY 40506-9854. Travel: Statewide. 606/257-1919. i*- Dispelling the Myth: Indian Life in Kentucky, 1600-1800 ^ The Village Near the Ford: Life in the Kentucky River Valley in 1407

HOLLINGSWORTH, RANDOLPH (Ms.), 221 Moloney Building, Lexington Community College, Lexington, KY 40506-0235. Travel: Region 6. 606/257-3635; 606/271-3017. ^ A View from the Pedestal: The Lives of Antebellum Kentucky Ladies Margaret Wickliffe Preston and the Civil War in Lexington

HOLMBERG, JAMES J,, Filson Club Historical Society, 1310S. Third St., Louisville, KY 40208. Travel: Statewide. 502/634-8846; 502/231-9167. The Lewis and Clark Expedition Richard S. Ewell: Confederate General and Prisoner of War

HOOD, J. LARRY, 188 Timberlane Court, Nicholasville, KY 40356. Travel: Statewide. 502/564-4790; 606/223-9825. What is a Kentuckian? ^ Kentucky's Other Grand Sport: Twentieth-century Kentucky Politics

JONES, LOYAL, 111 Forest Street, Berea KY 40403. Travel: Regions 6, 7, 8. 606/986-3406. ^Appalachian Humor and Values Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands

JONES, STEVEN H., 1014 W. Broadway, Mavfield KY 42066. Travel; Regions 1, 2. 270/762-4629; 270/247-0005. The Life of Ellis Wilson: Lessons in Race Relations for the Twenty-first Century

KELLY, ARTHUR L., 196 Blueridge Drive, Frankfort, KY 40601. Travel: Statewide. 502/695-3570. ^ The Human Dimensions of World War II: Survivors' Stories i*- If You Want to Write Your First Book

KLOTTER, JAMES C,, 1087The Lane, Lexington KY 40504. Travel: Statewide. 502/863-8076; 606/277-4572. ^ Looking Backward: The State Historian's View of Changes in Kentucky in the Twentieth Century A Look at A New History of Kentucky

LUCAS, MARION B., History Department, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42101-3576. Travel: Regions 2, 3, 4. 270/745-5736; 270/843-8580. ^ Slavery in Kentucky ^ Kentucky Blacks: Transition from Slavery to Freedom

McKlNNEY, GORDON B,, CPO 2336, Berea College, Berea KY 40404. Travel: Statewide. 606/986-9341, ext. 5141. » The Creation of the Appalachian Stereotype ^ Historical Origins of the Republican Party in Appalachia

1999-2000 KHC Speakers Bureau 21 More Speakers Speakers on these pages are also available through the Speakers Bureau. For those v^hose travel is regional, please see the map on page 23. When you call these speakers, be sure to ask about equipment they may need, such as a lectern, microphone, slide projector, or VCR. Daytime phone number is listed first.

MAY-PLATTNER, ELISSA, Route 1, Camp Springs KY 41059. Travel: Statewide. 502/695-2300; 606/635-9555. «*^The Greatest Game: Kentucky Politics Voices from the Hill Country: My Grandmother's Story

METZMEIER, CLARA L, 1610 Parkview Drive, Campbellsville, KY 42718. Travel: Statewide. 270/789-5242; 270/465-6104. Kentucky Writers Trail: Authors from East to West Janice's Legacy: The Fiction of Janice Holt Giles

MINOR, MARK, English Department, Morehead State University, UPO 605, Morehead KY 40351. Travel: Regions 5, 6, 7, 8. 606/783-2185; 606/783-1805. The Bible as Literature The Concept of the Imagination in Romantic Writers: Helping Us Make a Better World

MOORE, ROY L., 2289Shannawood Drive, Lexington, KY 40513-1333. Travel: Statewide. 606/257-7805; 606/223-3152. A Brief History of Press Freedom in Kentucky Is Privacy Dying?

PILKINGTON, BOB, 4307St. Regis Lane, Louisville, KY 40220. Travel: Regions 3, 4, 5, 6. 502/459-5475; 502/897-9845. George Rogers Clark: The Hero Nobody Knows George Rogers Clark: Frontier Soldier-Psychologist

PRICHARD, JAMES M., Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, 300 Coffee Tree Road, Frankfort, KY 40602-0537. Travel: Statewide. 502/564-8300, ext. 347; 502/633-6256. f* Jesse James in Kentucky: Fact, Fiction, and Folklore Abolitionists in Our Midst: The Doyle Conspiracy of 1848

SPURLOCK, JOHN H., 537 L. C. Carr Road, Bowling Green KY 42101. Travel: Regions 2, 4. 270/745-5770; 270/781-4790. Jesse Stuart, American Educator Jesse Stuart's World

22 1999-2000 KHC Speakers Bureau STAEBELL, SANDRA L., The Kentucky Museum, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42101-3576. Travel; Regions Statewide. 270/745-6260. •* Whoops, Hoops, Hurrah!: Victorian Clothing and the Dress Reform Movement Fabric Footnotes: Kentucky Women and Their Quilts VAN WILLTGEN, JOHN, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506. Travel: Statewide. 606/257-6920; 606/269-8301. ^ Tobacco Culture: Historic Farm Practices in the Burley Belt (with slides) ^ Biscuits and Gravy: Old-time Food Ways of Kentucky Farm Communities

WAGGENER, LINDA MARCUM, 122 East Fortune Street, Box 906, Columbia, KY 42728-0906. Travel: Statewide. 270/384-3603. •* Sentimental Journey: An Aging "Boomer" Looks Back, and Ahead Rural Kentucky Women WEBB, PATRICIA J., Humanities Division, Maysville Community College, 1755 US 68, Maysville KY 41056. Travel: Statewide. 606/759-7648. ^ William Aspenwall Bradley: A Connecticut Yankee in Kentucky's Cumberlands

WESTON, BEAU, Centre College, 600 West Walnut Street, Danville KY 40422. Travel: Statewide. 606/238-5256. t*- Why Conservative Churches Grow and Liberal Churches Don't ^ Doomsday Cults and the Coming Millennium

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