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Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
This oral history shares stories of Kentucky nurses—from frontier births to emergency rooms and from the early twentieth-century to the present day.
From frontier times to the present day, Kentucky nurses have served with intelligence and energy, always ensuring that their patients received the best available care. Folklorist and oral historian William Lynwood Montell collects nearly two hundred stories from these hard-working
Author
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A Kentucky native and folk studies scholar presents a collection of haunting legends and stories of spirits from across the Bluegrass State.
William Lynwood Montell has spent years documenting Kentucky's rich legacy of ghostly visitations. Many of the stories were collected from elders by younger generations and are recounted here exactly as they were gathered. This volume introduces spirits such as the Tan Man of Pike County, who trudges...
William Lynwood Montell has spent years documenting Kentucky's rich legacy of ghostly visitations. Many of the stories were collected from elders by younger generations and are recounted here exactly as they were gathered. This volume introduces spirits such as the Tan Man of Pike County, who trudges...
Author
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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"Wildly funny and deeply tragic . . . these tales chronicle each sheriff's journey from youth to election to office and, occasionally, into retirement." —Wayne County Outlook
Following the success of his collections of stories from funeral directors, schoolteachers, doctors, and lawyers, folklorist William Lynwood Montell presents a new volume of tales from Kentucky sheriffs. Montell collected stories from all areas of the state...
Following the success of his collections of stories from funeral directors, schoolteachers, doctors, and lawyers, folklorist William Lynwood Montell presents a new volume of tales from Kentucky sheriffs. Montell collected stories from all areas of the state...
Author
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"A unique firsthand record of this history and culture of death in Kentucky relayed nearly word-for-word to preserve the language, style and emotion." —Hardin Company Historical Society
In Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes, William Lynwood Montell has collected stories and reminiscences from funeral home directors and embalmers across the state. These accounts provide a record of the business of death as it has been practiced...
In Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes, William Lynwood Montell has collected stories and reminiscences from funeral home directors and embalmers across the state. These accounts provide a record of the business of death as it has been practiced...
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