The below is the script for Season 5, Episode 7 of our podcast, Dime Stories. Listen to the episode on Anchor, Google Podcasts, or Spotify. Today, we continue looking at the stories of individual enslaved women, this time with the more infamous of the two: Margaret “Peggy” Garner, who became infamous a s fugitive slaveContinue reading “Kentucky in the Eyes of Women: Margaret “Peggy” Garner”
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Kentucky in the Eyes of Women: Julie Ann Tevis
The below is the script for Season 5, Episode 5 of our podcast, Dime Stories. Listen to the episode on Anchor, Google Podcasts, or Spotify. Today, we continue looking at the spaces where women contributed to forming Kentucky’s well-known institutions. But unlike Mary Catherine Spalding, our subject today – and her institution – challenged theContinue reading “Kentucky in the Eyes of Women: Julie Ann Tevis”
Kentucky in the Eyes of Women: Catherine Spalding
The below is the script for Season 5, Episode 4 of our podcast, Dime Stories. Listen to the episode on Anchor, Google Podcasts, or Spotify. Originally from Maryland, Mary Catherine Spalding immigrated to Kentucky at the age of four and lived in the Catholic enclave of what is now Nelson County. Raised primarily by herContinue reading “Kentucky in the Eyes of Women: Catherine Spalding”
Kentucky in the Eyes of Women: Esther Whitley
The below is the script for Season 5, Episode 2 of our podcast, Dime Stories. Listen to the episode on Anchor, Google Podcasts, or Spotify. In our last episode, we recounted the story of Jemima Boone, among the first young women to help settle Kentucky, which was then considered part of the frontier. But Jemima’sContinue reading “Kentucky in the Eyes of Women: Esther Whitley”
Kentucky in the Eyes of Women: Jemima Boone
The below is the script for Season 5, Episode 2 of our podcast, Dime Stories. Listen to the episode on Anchor, Google Podcasts, or Spotify. Kentucky has a long, rich history – but unfortunately, the stories of individual Kentucky women start in the late 1700s. While humans inhabited the region since as early as 10,000Continue reading “Kentucky in the Eyes of Women: Jemima Boone”
Kentucky in the Eyes of Women: Nonhelema Hokolesqua
The below is the script for Season 5, Episode 1 of our podcast, Dime Stories. Listen to the episode on Anchor, Google Podcasts, or Spotify. “Stand on the southern bank of the Ohio River at its confluence with the Scioto River in 1758 and watch the Shawnee women pulling weeds and tending crops for theContinue reading “Kentucky in the Eyes of Women: Nonhelema Hokolesqua”
Samplers and Girlhood
Tiffany interprets Elizabeth Gossom Roberts’ sampler, comparing it to a recent interpretation from her forthcoming book.
Meet Jackson Medel, Folk Art Curator
The Kentucky Museum is thrilled to welcome Jackson Medel as the Luce Term Assistant Curator. In this interview, Medel talks about his work.
What’s Happening at the Kentucky Museum?
Welcome to the Spring 2021 term, everyone! We are thrilled to be back on campus, hard at work on new exhibits, programs, and collaborative projects. Already this month, we’ve been hard at work getting ready to open to the public and preparing collaborations with WKU faculty and students. Here’s a roundup of some recent happenings at the Kentucky Museum.
Why the Arts Matter
Tiffany discusses data on why the arts matter to our communities, reflecting on 2020 and the road ahead.