R.E. Wilkerson, Blacksmith, Carriage Painting and Repair, S.W. Corner of Main and Kentucky Streets, Bowling Green, circa 1900. Photo courtesy The Kentucky Museum, Western Kentucky University |
Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky
This project highlights the history of Bowling
Green and Warren County, Kentucky, with a potpourri of materials
relating to its traditional culture and teaching of that history
and culture to Kentucky school children as part of their
curriculum. Included with the project are:
An Educator's Guide
To Kentucky Museums;
Hand-Me-Down History, Local Resources
for the Classroom;
Reflections of the Past: Archival and
Other Supplementary Resources for the Classroom;
Bowling
Green-Warren County Operation Pride for Kids, a Teacher's Resource
Guide;
Bowling Green's Historic Depot: Operation Pride:
Old L & N Train Station;
Architecture of Warren
Country, Kentucky, 1790-1940; a Kentucky Museum Coloring Book
with historical content; an Early Kentucky Folklife Interpretive
Manual for the Felts House, an 1830 log cabin on the grounds of
Western Kentucky University; a Felts House Food Manual, detailing
open-hearth cooking techniques; a collection of letters,
advertisements, newspaper articles on transportation by rail and
steamboat in 19th-century Kentucky; a book entitled
Children
& Childhood in the 19th Century; a collection of
photographs of children and childhood in 19th-century Kentucky by
staff of the Kentucky Museum and the accompanying teachers' guide;
Growing Up Victorian: a Family Activity Book; a family
photo album of Victorian families compiled from photos at the
Kentucky Library by Kentucky Museum staff; a videotape entitled
"Over Here, Over There: Warren Countians Remember World War II"; a
report entitled "First American Roads, Rails, and Rivers: Warren
County Then and Now" and an accompanying Teacher's Guide;
Main
Street: Mirror of Change, an exhibition catalog of early
photos of Bowling Green; a collection of oral history
audio-cassette tapes from the African-American history project; and
miscellaneous flyers, booklets and handouts on historic Kentucky
architecture, folklife and foodways.
Originally submitted by: Jim Bunning, Senator.
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The Local Legacies project provides a "snapshot" of American Culture as it was expressed in spring of 2000. Consequently, it is not being updated with new or revised information with the exception of "Related Website" links.
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