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WKU Libraries To Sponsor "Kentucky Live" Series
Bowling Green, Ky. - With funding from Trace Die Cast, Western Kentucky University Libraries will again sponsor KENTUCKY LIVE, a series of programs focusing on "Southern culture at its best."
The first program, scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 8, 2005, at 7pm at Barnes & Noble, 1680 Campbell Lane, will be presented by Dr. Anthony Harkins, assistant professor, WKU's history department, whose topic will be “Hillbilly: A Cultural History.” Harkins' presentation is based on his highly acclaimed publication, HILLBILLY: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF AN AMERICAN ICON, winner of a national book award given annually by the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University. The prize-winning authors receive a $1,000 cash award, plus the opportunity to give a presentation at the Glasscock Center early next year. “Hillbilly,” which was published by Oxford University Press and reissued in paperback just this month, also received the 2004 John G. Cawelti Award honorable mention for Outstanding Book in American Culture Studies awarded by the American Culture Association. Other scheduled programs in the KENTUCKY LIVE series are: Oct. 13, a presentation by Bill Jackson titled “Jackson’s Orchard & Nursery, Inc.”; Nov. 10, “The Total Light Process: New and Selected Poems” by former Kentucky poet Laureate James Baker Hall; and Dec. 1, Napoleon in Rags” by Kirby Gann, author and managing editor of Sarabande Books. All KENTUCKY LIVE programs are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Brian Coutts (270) 745-6121 or brian.coutts@wku.edu or check the Website: www.wku.edu/Library/events
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