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Working for women's issues and women's rights.

Willie Coleman Allen discusses the history of several mills along Doe Run Creek and some of her general memories of this area.

Dorothy Barr describes her youth and marriage in Detroit, Michigan. Although her husband's job entailed numerous moves around the central United States, Mrs. Barr has spent the last nineteen years of her life in Louisville. She discusses her children.

Barr describes his youth spent in Detroit, Michigan; work as part of the Civilian Conservation Corps; his thirty-eight years as a General Motors employee; his retirement; and activities at Senior House. Part of a pilot study on oral history and gerontology.

Frank Bauer, a retired Jefferson County police officer, discusses food distribution from Eline's Garage in St. Matthews, the Black people in the Harrod's Creek area, and other ways that food was obtained for the flood victims, as well as his work with the Pennsylvania State Troopers.

Frank Bauer, a retired Jefferson County police officer, discusses food distribution from Eline's Garage in St. Matthews, the Black people in the Harrod's Creek area, and other ways that food was obtained for the flood victims, as well as his work with the Pennsylvania State Troopers.

Baumgarten discusses German-American Music in Louisville prior to 1914. Bertha Baumgarten, who in her early years sang in the German-American Singing Societies, discusses her life with particular emphasis on her German heritage.

Gladys Bernard discusses Jeffersontown, Kentucky; the death of her brother in World War II; her experiences at Louisville Girls' High School; traveling to Florida during the 1920's; her marriage and the births of her four children as a single parent.

Mr. Blalock, a native of Durham, North Carolina, is a graduate of Duke University and Harvard Business School (AMP). He came to Louisville in 1961 as a corporate and public relations executive with Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation, later known as BATUS. Mr. Blalock has performed a wide range of community service for numerous civic, arts, and health care organizations in Louisville, including coordinating a fund drive for the University of Louisville with a goal of $40 million dollars over a five year period, known as the Quest for Excellence. At the time of the interview he was retired, but still serving as a consultant to several Louisville businesses.

Logan Bohannon discusses his life as a child in Eastern Kentucky in the 1920s and his later life in a children's home in Anchorage, Kentucky.

Mary Boklage discusses her family history and her interests in the arts and folk recreation.

Mary Boklage discusses her family history and her interests in the arts and folk recreation.

Interview with bluegrass musician Berk Bryant.

Interview with bluegrass musician Berk Bryant.

Interview with bluegrass musician Berk Bryant.

Interview with bluegrass musician Berk Bryant.

Veterans History Project

Frank Callan describes events leading up to the April 4, 1974, tornado in Louisville, Kentucky. The Callan family and home were involved in this event and this personal experience deals with the tornado itself and its aftermath.

UofL student Nathan Jones interviews his fellow National Guardsmen about their deployment to Ferguson, Missouri during the public unrest after the murder of Michael Brown in August 2014. Index available.

Personal history of Doris Chapman. Relates to Louisville, Kentucky childhood; the Great Depression; the 1937 flood; living in Camp Taylor; World War II; German POWs in Louisville; Okolona; bussing; working at GE; and the 1974 tornado. (Interview index available)

Mr. Clay discusses growing up in segregated Louisville and the influence his mother, a teacher, and his father, who held several jobs, had on his life. He discusses the heyday of the black business district on Walnut Street and the activities he would engage in there as a child. Mr. Clay then discusses his education in Ohio and Louisville, where he attended Bellarmine College. He explains his involvement with the Poverty Project and other community based improvement programs in Louisville. Mr. Clay describes the shop he opened in 1967 called The Corner of Jazz which became an important local center for African American gatherings and discussions. He discusses the events leading up to the civil disturbance on May 29th 1968 and his personal experiences during that event. Summary available.

Mary Ann Cooper relates growing up on the Ohio/Kentucky racing circuit in the 1940s and 1950s. Racetrack superstitions and anecdotes are told; a glossary of racetrack terms and a time index are included.

History of Booker T. Washington Elementary and Jackson Junior High Schools, Louisville, Kentucky. These schools formerly operated on the campus that is now home to Meyzeek Middle School. These schools formerly operated on the campus that is now home to Meyzeek Middle School.

Sean and Ashley Deskins discuss their education, Kentucky life, and regional stereotypes. They talk about why they decided to host visitors for the World Affairs Council and what it is like accepting strangers into their home. Difficulties in language barrier, dietary concerns, and cultural differences are all topics of conversation. Sean and Ashley Deskins live in Louisville, Kentucky. Sean is an attorney, and Ashley is a real estate agent. Sean graduated from the University of Louisville while Ashley graduated form Eastern Kentucky University. They decided to host for the World Affairs Council after Sean received an award for his service to the community by the Council.

Brooksie Dortch discusses her childhood spent with grandparents in Tennessee; work as a domestic servant in Louisville; and her life at Dosker Manor. Part of a pilot study on oral history and gerontology.

History of St. Matthews, KY.

Cynthia Dumas was an Air Force nurse stationed at Cam Rahn Bay, Vietnam from June 1968 to June 1969. She speaks of this experience and her current involvement in Veterans' affairs.

Cynthia Dumas was an Air Force nurse stationed at Cam Rahn Bay, Vietnam from June 1968 to June 1969. She speaks of this experience and her current involvement in Veterans' affairs.

An oral history of St. Matthews, KY.

The narrator discusses life in the St. Matthews area. Interview is on side 2.

Margaret Emmons discusses her life in Louisville during the 1920s and 1930s.

Albert Entwhistle discusses the flood in connection with his job as assistant to the President of the Mengel Company. This company manufactured mahogany veneers, plywood, woodworking, furniture.

Eighty-eight year old J. W. Everett of Indianapolis, IN recalled his childhood and youth in Louisville, KY in the Black Hill and Beecher Terrace neighborhoods in the 1940s and early 1950s. At age eight, his family had moved from sub-standard housing in the area of Eleventh and Magnolia to the brand-new public housing project called Beecher Terrace, which in that era was segregated for African-Americans. Everett recalls his child there as safe and care-free with the community caring for one-another. In addition, he touches on his school years at Coleridge Taylor Elementary, Madison Junior High, and especially Central High, where he experienced lots of activities for youths as well as one especially committed teacher who led students on lengthy Saturday hikes to the Falls of the Ohio. Mr. Everett further describes the vibrant street life including parades and Derby Time along the lengthy segregated “Old Walnut”—now Muhammad Ali Boulevard—business district. He lists specific business and entertainment sites including his visit as a youth to the iconic Top Hat Nightclub. Finally, the interviewee talks of his Air Force years during the Korean War, his subsequent return and brief employment in Louisville, and his multiple jobs in Indianapolis before finally landing for a lengthy employment at Ford Motor Company.

Bobbie Faust, the editor of the weekly newspaper in Benton, Kentucky (The Tribune-Courier), has covered Big Singing Day for the last eight years. Photograph included.

Martha Freeman says that she and her husband lived on South First Street at the time of the flood. Her husband was on of the first to build a boat for rescue operations but in his diary he expresses his feelings of prejudice.

Renee Gambrel was born in France. She came to the United States after World War I with her American husband. Unable to adjust to life in Bell County, Kentucky, she and her husband returned to France where they lived for nineteen years.

James Gibson relates his recollections of the 1920s in the United States. He deals with economic and social factors in these important years before World War I.

Goode discusses growing up in Appalachia. For summary see report in 1987-35's file.

Growing up in Appalachia.

Sister Mary Clement Greenwell discusses her childhood on a farm in Daviess County, Kentucky; her education; her decision to enter religious order; her years as an elementary school teacher; and her present work with the elderly at St. Boniface Church.

Born in 1907 in Coal Creek, Tennessee, Leon C. Guy discusses his early life in Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina; farming, hunting, trapping, and fishing; mining and working in a factory; prohibition and the racial situation before World War II.

Tony Heitzman tells of his childhood and youth in the Belknap neighborhood of the Highlands area of Louisville, Kentucky in the 1930s and 1940s, where his father operated a bakery at the Douglass Loop. He vividly recalls the Roman Catholic ethos of his devout, socially conscious parents as well as student life at St. Francis of Assisi Elementary School. Heitzman tells an interesting anecdote about Kentucky Fried Chicken founder and bakery customer Harland Sanders and explains his lifelong interest in the Von Trapp family singers, refugees from Nazi occupied Austria. He describes his life as a teenager and young adult preparing for the priesthood at St. Meinrad Seminary in the 1940s; as a mathematics teacher and priest at the new Trinity High School; as a coordinator of an anti-poverty program in west Louisville in the 1960s; his decade as a priest at Immaculate Heart of Mary, an all-Black Catholic church in the Little Africa (Parkland) neighborhood; and finally as a priest in the 1980s at St. Barnabas Parish where he left the ministry to marry Judy Cooper, a former church member. He speaks of the impact of Vatican II on his vision of ministry and his earnest struggle to be faithful to his vow of celibacy. Finally, Heitzman describes his later role as a lay Hosparus counselor, he and his wife’s participation in the liberal St. William Parish, and his several retirement interests.

At age ninety-four, Catherine Higgins recalls childhood years in Crescent Hill and Beechmont neighborhoods. She commuted via ferryboat from Jeffersonville to attend Louisville Girls High. She recalls her played basketball and excelled in music and French.

This is a multi-interview series with artist and writer Harlan Hubbard, discussing his life and work.

This is a multi-interview series with artist and writer Harlan Hubbard, discussing his life and work.

This is a multi-interview series with artist and writer Harlan Hubbard, discussing his life and work.

This is a multi-interview series with artist and writer Harlan Hubbard, discussing his life and work.

This is a multi-interview series with artist and writer Harlan Hubbard, discussing his life and work.

This is a multi-interview series with artist and writer Harlan Hubbard, discussing his life and work.

This is a multi-interview series with artist and writer Harlan Hubbard, discussing his life and work.

This is a multi-interview series with artist and writer Harlan Hubbard, discussing his life and work.

Group interview with retired garment workers from the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU).

Clarence J. Laughlin talks about the history of photography.

Lucile Lilly reminisces about Big Sing Day. Part of Deborah Loftis' series on shape-note singing.

Mr. Clay discusses growing up in segregated Louisville and the influence his mother, a teacher, and his father, who held several jobs, had on his life. He discusses the heyday of the black business district on Walnut Street and the activities he would engage in there as a child. Mr. Clay then discusses his education in Ohio and Louisville, where he attended Bellarmine College. He explains his involvement with the Poverty Project and other community based improvement programs in Louisville. Mr. Clay describes the shop he opened in 1967 called The Corner of Jazz which became an important local center for African American gatherings and discussions. He discusses the events leading up to the civil disturbance on May 29th 1968 and his personal experiences during that event. Summary available.

Dr. Hicks describes her experience being the first African American woman to attend Dental School at the University of Louisville. She reflects on starting her own practice and working in a dental clinic on Dixie Highway during the beginning of busing in Louisville.

Meatyard discusses his family's history and then his own. However, the bulk of the interview is dedicated to his career as a photographer. He touches on exhibits, style, technique, imagery and influences.

Women on the Louisville Board of Aldermen. Melissa A. Mershon, President of the Board of Alderman, discusses her political life, goals, and her future. She also discusses issues in politics concerning women and how being a woman has affected her career. She highlights the difference in men's and women's political lives such as the experience expected of both.

Interview with James "Jim" King, World War II veteran and long-time leader of the Thoroughbred Chorus.

Interview with James "Jim" King, long-time leader of the Thoroughbred Chorus.

In addition to speaking about Big Sing Day, Dr. Mofield speaks about early radio in Kentucky (briefly). Photograph included.

An interview about the living conditions in and around Saigon during the Vietnam War.

Martin Moore worked for the Courier-Journal and Louisville Times. During the flood he lived in Crescent Hill and he relates the conditions in his area. He tells about going to Lexington and staying for a period of time to print the newspaper there.

Institutional history of River Region Hospital (formerly Central State Hospital). Morrison was administrator of the hospital in 1975.

Morrison discussed growing up in Old Louisville, attending segregated primary school, being the first Black student in a Louisville Catholic School, and her activism at the University of Louisville.

Ermie Norris describes her childhood in Louisville; her marriage; the difficulties involved in raising a child as a single parent; her experiences in the 1937 flood; and performances she saw at Macauley's Theatre as a youth.

Interview with Louie B. Nunn about the University of Louisville entering the state university system.

Canal Zone experiences, 1918-1950s.

History of St. Matthews, KY.

The narrator discusses life in the St. Matthews area.

Mrs. Roulston talks about Mr. John L. Gruber and the history of the Louisville Conservatory of Music. Gruber was the business manager for the conservatory from 1920 and its president from 1925 until its closing.

History of St. Matthews, KY.

Charles Schumann relates the concerns of the Corp of Engineers before the flood and the problems they were faced with after the flood. Some of the problems they faced were the damage to buildings, area involved and dollar value of destruction.

Lucile Schwein describes her childhood, spent in Central Kentucky; her move to Louisville after graduating from high school in Lexington; her work in various dime stores; her marriage; her life in Washington, D.C., and her retirement at Dosker Manor in Louisville.

Clinton Smoot lived in Anchorage, Kentucky at the time of the flood and his family owned a drug store at 22nd and Broadway. A picture of the articles that were stolen from the drug store is included in the summary. He vividly describes the water and mud.

Raised in West Louisville, Richard Spalding discusses his life as a musician and musical educator. Spalding discusses childhood in family grocery stores in Louisville’s Russell and Portland neighborhoods; family’s interest in music; music education at St. Anthony School and St. Xavier High; industrial life and community among former residents of Marion county, KY; mother’s religious superstitions; excitement and discovery at UofL School of Music, 1941-1943; electronics technician in Army Air Corp during WWII led to assignments in Europe including France; meeting Cecile who became his wife. In the second interview, Spalding recounts meeting and courting his wife, Cecile, in Paris; his discharge from the Army Air Corp after assignment in Germany; return to UofL (piano) under GI Bill; UofL faculty in immediate post-WWII; difficult mail courtship with Cecile; return to France to study at American Conservatory of Music in Fontainebleu and personal piano instruction in Paris; knew Bill Mootz, famous Courier-Journal music critic; marriage to Cecile in Paris; Cecile arrives in Louisville with little English; music teacher in Bardstown public schools (getting there by bus). In the third interview, Spalding talks about Cecile’s introduction to Louisville: Edmund Schlesinger takes her to UofL football game and she speaks to Alliance Francaise; success as choral director at Highland Junior High; part-time music grad student at UofL; job offer at UofL; learning to teach elementary music teachers; training abroad in Orff and similar methodologies; language coach for French operas; leader of Louisville Chorus; leader of summer teaching workshops in Canada; feelings about faculty role at UofL; French in-laws move to Louisville; leader in Sister Cities of Louisville; and his bi-lingual home.

Raised in West Louisville, Richard Spalding discusses his life as a musician and musical educator. Spalding discusses childhood in family grocery stores in Louisville’s Russell and Portland neighborhoods; family’s interest in music; music education at St. Anthony School and St. Xavier High; industrial life and community among former residents of Marion county, KY; mother’s religious superstitions; excitement and discovery at UofL School of Music, 1941-1943; electronics technician in Army Air Corp during WWII led to assignments in Europe including France; meeting Cecile who became his wife. In the second interview, Spalding recounts meeting and courting his wife, Cecile, in Paris; his discharge from the Army Air Corp after assignment in Germany; return to UofL (piano) under GI Bill; UofL faculty in immediate post-WWII; difficult mail courtship with Cecile; return to France to study at American Conservatory of Music in Fontainebleu and personal piano instruction in Paris; knew Bill Mootz, famous Courier-Journal music critic; marriage to Cecile in Paris; Cecile arrives in Louisville with little English; music teacher in Bardstown public schools (getting there by bus). In the third interview, Spalding talks about Cecile’s introduction to Louisville: Edmund Schlesinger takes her to UofL football game and she speaks to Alliance Francaise; success as choral director at Highland Junior High; part-time music grad student at UofL; job offer at UofL; learning to teach elementary music teachers; training abroad in Orff and similar methodologies; language coach for French operas; leader of Louisville Chorus; leader of summer teaching workshops in Canada; feelings about faculty role at UofL; French in-laws move to Louisville; leader in Sister Cities of Louisville; and his bi-lingual home.

Raised in West Louisville, Richard Spalding discusses his life as a musician and musical educator. Spalding discusses childhood in family grocery stores in Louisville’s Russell and Portland neighborhoods; family’s interest in music; music education at St. Anthony School and St. Xavier High; industrial life and community among former residents of Marion county, KY; mother’s religious superstitions; excitement and discovery at UofL School of Music, 1941-1943; electronics technician in Army Air Corp during WWII led to assignments in Europe including France; meeting Cecile who became his wife. In the second interview, Spalding recounts meeting and courting his wife, Cecile, in Paris; his discharge from the Army Air Corp after assignment in Germany; return to UofL (piano) under GI Bill; UofL faculty in immediate post-WWII; difficult mail courtship with Cecile; return to France to study at American Conservatory of Music in Fontainebleu and personal piano instruction in Paris; knew Bill Mootz, famous Courier-Journal music critic; marriage to Cecile in Paris; Cecile arrives in Louisville with little English; music teacher in Bardstown public schools (getting there by bus). In the third interview, Spalding talks about Cecile’s introduction to Louisville: Edmund Schlesinger takes her to UofL football game and she speaks to Alliance Francaise; success as choral director at Highland Junior High; part-time music grad student at UofL; job offer at UofL; learning to teach elementary music teachers; training abroad in Orff and similar methodologies; language coach for French operas; leader of Louisville Chorus; leader of summer teaching workshops in Canada; feelings about faculty role at UofL; French in-laws move to Louisville; leader in Sister Cities of Louisville; and his bi-lingual home.

Senior House Project. Stoll was the original group worker hired at Senior House in 1963. She relates the beginnings of Senior House and its growth since then.

A.J. Thomas describes life in the late 1940s until the early 2000s in Louisville, Kentucky’s Haymarket, a near-downtown retail and wholesale meat and produce sales and distribution center. He discusses the operation and growth of a family-owned meat market on East Jefferson Street between Floyd and Preston Streets founded by his father, a Lebanese immigrant. Thomas vividly describes the crowded covered sidewalk in front of the small business storefronts where produce vendors operated as well as the mostly “victimless” crime that occurred there. In addition, he recalls the relationship and entrepreneurial spirit among the several ethnic and religious groups who either owned or worked in the market. Finally, Thomas describes the changing retail and wholesale customer base that led his family business to ultimately develop into a regional institutional meat distributor. The backdrop for his recollections is the transformation in the early 1960s through the Urban Renewal of the “old” Haymarket into a “modern” form – subsequently demolished.

Jack Trawick served as Director of the Louisville Community Design Center and later as head of the Center for Neighborhoods until his retirement in 2013. A Louisville native, Trawick was raised in the Indian Hills neighborhood and attended Louisville Country Day School for both his elementary and secondary education. In the late 1970s, he was an events coordinator for the Louisville Central Area, a downtown promotional organization. He is a graduate of Kenyon College (BA) and Bellarmine University (MBA). He is married to Patti Clare and has two grown children. Trawick, an Episcopalian, discusses his family roots especially on his paternal grandmother's side -- the Kendrick family-- reaching back two centuries in Louisville. Their Methodist faith led both his Grandfather Trawick--from a line of physicians from Nashville--and his Grandmother Kendrick to serve as Christian missionaries in China in the early 1900s. The narrator emphasizes the liberal social conscience that his mother, who was raised in Southern California in the WWII era, instilled in him. He spoke specifically of her strong distaste at the wartime detention of a close friend of Japanese descent and later of her personal friendship in Louisville with her African-American domestic servants. His mother involved him at an early age in support of Democratic political candidates. Trawick recalls neighborhood play in the woods near his childhood home, his relationship with his three siblings, preparation for college, and his college interest in biblical studies and utopian communities. Finally, he describes his role in downtown promotion at Louisville Central Area and chronicles the early days of Louisville's preservation movement focusing especially on the epic struggle to save the Will Sales Building from demolition for the Galleria Project. Trawick vividly describes his climbing among the ruins of the almost fully demolished building to salvage stoneware floor pavers. In the second interview, Trawick describes how he salvaged 19th century ceramic floor tiles from the ruins of the Will Sales Building which was demolished for the downtown Galleria complex after a bitter preservation fight. He follows with his discovery that the English tiles were likely used in both the U. S. Capitol and Louisville's City Hall. Trawick then discusses his discontent at the Louisville Central Area and how he was hired to direct the Louisville Community Design Center (LCDC), an agency rooted in architectural design that ultimately broadened its scope under Trawick to include neighborhood-based planning. He narrates the LCDC's funding over the decades mentioning various grants and funding sources that enabled work with the Louisville School of Art's move to the Cloister, housing revitalization in the Limerick neighborhood, and commercial development in the California area. The interviewee then describes the relationship after 1985 between city government's Department of Neighborhoods and LCDC/Center for Neighborhoods including strategies to "serve" both the executive and legislative branches. Specifically, he elaborates on projects involving affordable housing and safe neighborhoods. Finally, Trawick discusses his work on an Olmsted memorial that led to the establishment of the Louisville's Olmsted Conservancy and closes with a description of the financial hard times at the Center for Neighborhoods that prompted his retirement.

Jack Trawick served as Director of the Louisville Community Design Center and later as head of the Center for Neighborhoods until his retirement in 2013. A Louisville native, Trawick was raised in the Indian Hills neighborhood and attended Louisville Country Day School for both his elementary and secondary education. In the late 1970s, he was an events coordinator for the Louisville Central Area, a downtown promotional organization. He is a graduate of Kenyon College (BA) and Bellarmine University (MBA). He is married to Patti Clare and has two grown children. Trawick, an Episcopalian, discusses his family roots especially on his paternal grandmother's side -- the Kendrick family-- reaching back two centuries in Louisville. Their Methodist faith led both his Grandfather Trawick--from a line of physicians from Nashville--and his Grandmother Kendrick to serve as Christian missionaries in China in the early 1900s. The narrator emphasizes the liberal social conscience that his mother, who was raised in Southern California in the WWII era, instilled in him. He spoke specifically of her strong distaste at the wartime detention of a close friend of Japanese descent and later of her personal friendship in Louisville with her African-American domestic servants. His mother involved him at an early age in support of Democratic political candidates. Trawick recalls neighborhood play in the woods near his childhood home, his relationship with his three siblings, preparation for college, and his college interest in biblical studies and utopian communities. Finally, he describes his role in downtown promotion at Louisville Central Area and chronicles the early days of Louisville's preservation movement focusing especially on the epic struggle to save the Will Sales Building from demolition for the Galleria Project. Trawick vividly describes his climbing among the ruins of the almost fully demolished building to salvage stoneware floor pavers. In the second interview, Trawick describes how he salvaged 19th century ceramic floor tiles from the ruins of the Will Sales Building which was demolished for the downtown Galleria complex after a bitter preservation fight. He follows with his discovery that the English tiles were likely used in both the U. S. Capitol and Louisville's City Hall. Trawick then discusses his discontent at the Louisville Central Area and how he was hired to direct the Louisville Community Design Center (LCDC), an agency rooted in architectural design that ultimately broadened its scope under Trawick to include neighborhood-based planning. He narrates the LCDC's funding over the decades mentioning various grants and funding sources that enabled work with the Louisville School of Art's move to the Cloister, housing revitalization in the Limerick neighborhood, and commercial development in the California area. The interviewee then describes the relationship after 1985 between city government's Department of Neighborhoods and LCDC/Center for Neighborhoods including strategies to "serve" both the executive and legislative branches. Specifically, he elaborates on projects involving affordable housing and safe neighborhoods. Finally, Trawick discusses his work on an Olmsted memorial that led to the establishment of the Louisville's Olmsted Conservancy and closes with a description of the financial hard times at the Center for Neighborhoods that prompted his retirement.

Grace Turner discusses life on Crocus Creek, KY, rural Kentucky and the genealogy of her family.

Louisvillian Pat Updegraff recalls her family history, childhood and education in Louisville's Highlands, and her father, Frank Ropke, a local judge and Commonwealth Attorney. She also discusses an extended trip to visit relatives in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the blossoming of her love for modern languages at the University of Louisville (Class of 1942), her involvement in the formative years of the Louisville Youth Orchestra (1960s), her role in the fight to save the Women's Club houses in Old Louisville (1970s), and a family fire brick business in Grahn and Louisville, Kentucky.

Louisvillian Pat Updegraff recalls her family history, childhood and education in Louisville's Highlands, and her father, Frank Ropke, a local judge and Commonwealth Attorney. She also discusses an extended trip to visit relatives in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the blossoming of her love for modern languages at the University of Louisville (Class of 1942), her involvement in the formative years of the Louisville Youth Orchestra (1960s), her role in the fight to save the Women's Club houses in Old Louisville (1970s), and a family fire brick business in Grahn and Louisville, Kentucky.

Josephine Vowels describes growing up in an Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York; New York City during World War II; her marriage and move to rural Kentucky; the hostility she encountered and how she overcame it; her two children and divorce.

Wall, the author of Henry Watterson: Reconstruction Rebel, presented this speech entitled "Marse Henry: Reconstruction Once Again" at the Ekstrom Library on the occasion of the celebration of the University Archives and the Courier-Journal.

Mr. Wang, a native of China, discusses his life in Louisville, including the Chinese community, his leisure time activities, and his opinion of American television. He also talks about his wife's life in Louisville. He gives his opinion on China, and the relationship between China and the United States, and offers advice to Chinese students. Wang was a student and a computer center worker.

Theo White discusses the founding of a furrier business in Louisville by his grandfather and great uncles in 1837; the running of the business by his father; his experiences as a grader of pelts; his service as a first lieutenant in World War I.

Neil Whitehead was a student in high school at the time of the flood and recalls not being able to finish his paper route because of the flood. He remembers refugees in the warehouses around U of L, and unloading bags of grain at the Reynolds Building.

Jun Yasuda is a Buddhist nun in the Nipponzan Myohoji order. Yasuda describes her upbringing in Japan and her introduction to Nipponzan Myohoji. A main practice of this order to chant the Daimoku Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō while beating a hand drum and walking throughout the world promoting peace and non-violence. Yasuda discusses reasons for and experiences with participating in Footprints For Peace’s “Walk for a Sustainable Future” walking from the coalfields region of East Kentucky to the state capitol in Frankfort.