 |
| Talks Already Given |
| 2010 |
April 8, 2010 - The Missing and the Lost: "A Girl in the Woods" and "The Condemned"
David Bell, Dept. of English, WKU |
March 4, 2010 - One Step Ahead of Hitler: A Jewish Child's Journey Through France
Fred Gross, Author and former Courier Journal reporter |
February 11, 2010 -
“Prince Madoc and the Welsh Indians: a Myth of the Old West ”
Ron Fritze , Dean of Arts & Sciences, Athens State University |
|
| |
| 2009 |
November 12 , 2009 - Charles Garvin: Dynasty of Dimes
Robert Dickey, Lawyer and Former Beech Bend Publicist |
October
29, 2009 - Tales from Funeral Parlors
Lynwood Montell, Dept. of Folk Studies, WKU |
October
15, 2009 - Western Kentucky Coal Miner
Michael Guillerman, Former Coal Miner |
September
10, 2009 - Jossie Underwood and Her Civil War Diary
Nancy Baird , Dept. of Library Special Collections, WKU |
April
9, 2009 - “You
Can Go Anywhere From the Crossroads of the World”
Georgia
Green Stamper, Commentator, NPR WUKY; columnist,
The News Herald |
March
5, 2009 - “The Body Farm Novels"
Jefferson Bass
Dr.
Bill Bass, University of Tennessee’s Forensic
Anthropology Center and Jon
Jefferson, journalist, writer, documentary filmmaker |
February
12, 2009 - “Rare Wildflowers of Kentucky”
Dr. Thomas G. Barnes, Dept. of Forestry,
University of Kentucky
|
|
| |
| 2008 |
December
4, 2008
- “Kentucky’s Hidden Heritage: Traditional
Healers and the Folk-Magic Tradition”
Jack Montgomery,
Coord. of Collection Services, Western Kentucky
University |
November
13, 2008 - “Lost
Men” and “World Famous Love Acts”
The Art of Creative Writing
Brian Leung, Dept. of English University
of Louisville |
October
23, 2008
- “It’s Not News, It’s FARK”
Drew Curtis,
FARK.com |
September
11, 2008 - “Lonesome
Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels” The Women
of Barn Dance Radio
Dr
Kristine M. McCusker, Dept. of History, Middle Tennessee
State University |
April
10, 2008 - " Appalachian Home Cooking"
Dr. Mark F. Sohn, Professor, Pikeville College |
March
6, 2008 - Kentucky Derby History
Ronnie
Dreistadt, Outreach Educator, Kentucky Derby Museum |
February
14, 2008 - Healing Kentucky: Healthcare in the Bluegrass
State
Nancy
Baird, WKU Libraries |
|
| |
| 2007 |
November
8, 2007 - The Longest Caves in the World: Kentucky's
Mamoth Cave Systems
Dr.
Chris Groves, Dept. of Geography & Geology,
WKU |
October
11, 2007 - Lincoln as Lawyer
Dr. Brian Dirck, Historian, Anderson University,
Indiana |
September
13, 2007 - Floral Design in Kentucky and Abroad
Roger Dennis, Dept. of Agriculture, WKU |
April
5, 2007 - "Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World
of America's Most Valuable Plant"
Kristin Johannsen, Author |
March
8, 2007 - "Teasing Secrets from the Dead"
Emily Craig, State Forensic Anthropologist
|
February
8, 2007 - "James Archambeault's Historic Kentucky"
James Archambeault, Photographer |
February
2007 - Works by Bowling Green Artist Thelma Green
on display at Barnes & Noble.
February 1, 2007 - Opening reception
|
|
| |
| 2006 |
November,
9, 2006 - "Political
Scandals in Kentucky"
James Klotter, State Historian of Kentucky
|
October
12, 2006 -
Heaven Hill Distilleries
Larry Kass, Corporate Communications Manager |
September
14, 2006 - "When
Secrets Die"
Lynn Hightower, Mystery Writer |
April
6, 2006 - "Western Kentucky University: the
First 100 Years"
Nancy Baird, Kentucky History Specialist, WKU Libraries |
March
9, 2006 - Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee
State University
Paul F. Wells, Director
|
February
9, 2006 - Rebecca Ruth Candy Factory
Charles Booe, President |
All
through February, 2006
Works by Bowling Green Artist Granville Mitchell
on display at Barnes & Noble |
| |
| 2005 |
December
1 - "Napoleon in Rags"
Kirby Gann, Author and Managing Editor
Sarabande Books |
November
10 - "A Total Light Process: New & Selected
Poems"
James Baker Hall (former Kentucky Poet Laureate) |
October
13 - Jackson's Orchard and Nursery Inc.
Bill Jackson, Proprietor |
September
8 - "Hillbilly: a Cultural History"
Dr. Anthony Harkins
Department of History, WKU |
| |
|
| 2004 |
November
11 - Daniel Boone
Dr. Michael A. Lofaro
Department of English, University of Tennessee |
October
14 - Thomas Merton
Dr. Paul M. Pearson
Director and Archivist of The Thomas Merton Center,
Ballarmine University |
September
9 - Happy
Chandler as Baseball Commissioner
William J. Marshall, Jr.
Director of Special Collections and Archives, University
of Kentucky |
April
15 - Beyond the Ballads: Jesse James as
Confederate Outlaw
T. J. Stiles
Author |
March
11 - African American Artist
Alice
Gatewood Waddell
Artist |
February
12 - John G. Fee: Kentucky Abolitionist
& Educator
Dr.
Marion Lucas
Department of History, WKU |
| |
| 2003 |
November
13 - The Bosnians Come to Bowling Green
Vlasta Viteskic, Reference Librarian, Bowling Green
Public Library |
October
9 - The Moonlite Bar-B-Q Inn
Pat Bosley, Special Project Coordinator |
September
11 - The Roots of Appalachian Christianity
Elder John Sparks, Minister of the Old Zion Association
of United Baptists |
February
13 - Kentucky's Not a Place: It's a Chicken
Jonathan Jeffrey, WKU Library Special Collections |
March
13 - Railroads and Southern Culture
Joseph Millichap, WKU English Department |
April
10 - Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes
Jeff Todd Titon, Brown University Music Department |
| |
| 2002 |
November
7 - Skaker
Culture
Tommy Hines, Shaker Museum |
October
10 - The
Philistines Are Upon Us: The Civil War Comes to
Bowling Green
Dr. Michael Trapasso
Dept. of Geography and Geology, WKU |
September
12 - The
World Through the Eyes of a Kentucky Artist
Helen Crocker, Kentucky Artist |
April
11 - Duncan
Hines: The Cake Man
Jonathan Jeffrey, Kentucky Library |
March
14 - Warren
County Women
Dr. Carol Crowe-Carraco
Dept. of History, WKU |
February
7 - Jonesville / Shake Rag: Historic Black
Community of Bowling Green
Maxine Ray / Dr. John Long,
Dept. of Philosophy and Religion, WKU |
| |
| For
more information, call (270) 745-6121 |
