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Bowling Green - Warren County Bicentennial Celebration




WKU Bicentennial Speakers Bureau

Speakers are available without charge in Bowling Green - Warren County during the Bicentennial, March 1997 - December 1998. Sponsoring groups must contact individual speakers to schedule programs and may be required to provide equipment if needed.

For additional speakers and topics, contact Carol Crowe-Carraco at (502) 745-5728.


Nancy Baird
Department of Library Special Collections
Phone: 745- 6263
"A Her-story of Bowling Green - Warren County"
"The Philistine Are Upon Us: The Civil War in Warren County"
"Sketches of Famous Warren Countians"

Randy Capps
Department of Communications & Broadcasting
Phone: 781-1336
"They Said What?: Kentucky Orators"

Carl Chelf
Department of Government
Phone: 745-6357
"Henry Hardin Cherry: Warren County's Educator/Politician"

Nicholas Crawford
Department of Geography & Geology
Phone 745-5989
"Lost River Cave: A Registered National Landmark"
"The Natural Landscape of Warren County"
"Sinkholes, Caves, Underground Streams and Springs in Warren County"

Carol Crowe-Carraco
Department of History
Phone: 745-5728
"Lida Calvert Obenchain and Sadie Price: Women of Achievement"
"Vignettes of Warren Countians"
"Women Who Made A Difference in Bowling Green - Warren County"

Corban Goble
Department of Journalism
Phone: 745-6987
"Early Bowling Green - Warren County Newspapers"
"A History of the [Bowling Green] DAILY NEWS"

Christopher Groves
Department of Geography & Geology
Phone: 745-6522
"A History of Lost River Cave"

John Hardin
Department of History
Phone: 745-6522
"Facinating Facts About African Americans in Warren County"

Robert Haynes
Deaprtment of History
Phone: 745-4090
"The Grand-daddy of 'em All: Warren County and the '37 Flood"

Luther Hughes
Academic Affairs
Phone: 745-2296
"Agriculture's Contribution to the Strength of Warren County"
"Historical Socio-Economic Implications of Agriculture vs. Appalachian Counties"
"The Importance of Agriculture Today and Yesteryear in Warren County"

Jonathan Jeffrey
Department of Libray Special Collections
Phone: 745-5265
"Architectural Highlights of Warren County"
"Come to the Church in the Wild Wood: Rural Churches in Warren County"
"If Only These Stones Could Talk: Tombstones in Warren County"

Jackson Kesler
Department of Theatre & Dance
Phone: 745-5874
"The Theatre in Bowling Green - Warren County: 200 Years of Accomplishment"

Laura Harper Lee
Department of Library Special Collections
Phone: 745-6082
"Roads, Rails, and Rivers: Warren County Then and Now - The Bicentennial Exhibit at the Kentucky Museum"
"Vernacular Architecture in Bowling Green - Warren County"

John Long
Department of Philosophy & Religion
Phone: 745-5753
"Blacks in Bowling Green - Warren County"

Joseph Millichap
Department of English
Phone: 745-5766
"The Cultural Landscape of the Commonwealth"

Sue Lynn McGuire
Department of Library Special Collections
Phone: 745-4793
"Just Bummin': Courtship and Daily Life in the 1890s "
"Mourning Ettiquestte Lessons for Warren County Residents, 1870-1910"

Lynwood Montell
Department of Modern Languages
Phone: 745-6478
"Kentucky Ghosts"
"A Sense of Place: Folklife in Bowling Green - Warren County"

Donna Parker
Department of Library Special Collections
Phone: 745-6083
"Ho! for Drakes Creek - Something Ventured, Nothing Gained: The Shakers in Warren County"

John Parker
Department of Government
Phone: 745-6391
"Post WW II Political Trends in Bowling Green - Warren County"

John Spurlock
Department of English
Phone: 745-5770
"Jesse Stuart's World"

Joe Servant
Department of English
Phone: 745-5709
"Anne and Alpheus, 1842 - 1882: Life in Antebellum Kentucky"

Michael Trapasso
Department of Geography & Geology
Phone: 745-5986
"City of Fortresses: Bowling Green, Kentucky: A Slide Presentation"
"Riding with Comapny C: Reenacting the Civil War"

Richard Troutman
Department of History
Phone: 745-3842
"George Dick Browder in Warren County, 1876 - 1880"

Richard Weigel
Department of History
Phone: 745-5731
"Family Roots: Genealogy for Lay People"


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