Monday, March 19, 2018

Frankie V. Adams


Name:                         Adams, Frankie V.                             

Full name:                  Adams, Florence Victoria

Date of birth:             July 9, 1902                                                   

Date of death:            August 29, 1979

Place of birth:            near Danville, KY

Place of death           Fulton, Georgia

Place of burial:          Hilldale Cemetery, Danville, KY

Education:                 Knoxville College
   New York School of Social Work, 1927 (MSW)
                                   
Employment:             Atlanta University School of Social Work, professor

Field of activity:        Social service, Higher education

Occupation:               University and college faculty




                                
                                 Florence V. “Frankie” Adams at Wikipedia
                                 
                                 Frankie Adams (1902-1979) at NASW Foundation
                                 
                                 Frankie V. Adams at WorldCat Identities

Gender:                      Female

Ethnicity:                   African American

Kentucky Counties:  Boyle

Century tag:               20th

Author tag:                a


Monday, March 20, 2017

Bernadette Barton

Bernadette Barton                                                    

Date of birth:    June 4, 1967                                      
Place of birth:   Silver Springs, MD

Hometown:       Lexington, KY
Residence:        Morehead, KY

Life Events:
Creative project grants, community talks, conference presentations

Education:     
University of Kentucky, Ph.D.,  Sociology, 2000
University of Kentucky, Certificate, Women’s Studies, 1995
University of Kentucky, M.A., Sociology, 1994
San Francisco State University, Master’s work in Women’s Studies, 1992
Oberlin College, B.A., English, 1988

Employment:
Morehead State University, Professor of Sociology, 2000-2012

Awards:         
Kentucky Equality Federation, Ambassador of Goodwill, Appointed 2011                  
Morehead State University, Awarded Undergraduate Research Fellows,
        2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2011-2012
University of Kentucky, Arts and Sciences Graduate Fellowship, 1999   
University of Kentucky, Dissertation Enhancement Award, 1998
Oberlin College, Newton Prize, 1988

Publications: 

Stripped: more stories from exotic dancers, (2017) 
Stripped: Inside the lives of exotic dancers, (2006)
Pray the gay away: The extraordinary lives of Bible belt gays, (2012)

Sources:
Author website
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Friday, March 17, 2017

Harriette Simpson Arnow

Name:                         Harriette Louisa Simpson Arnow                                                                 

Pseudonym:               H. L. Simpson

Date of birth:             July 7, 1908                                                                
Date of death:            March 22, 1986

Birthplace:                 Monticello, Wayne County, KY         
Place of death:           Washtenaw County, Michigan
Place of burial          buried at farm in Keno, Pulaski County, KY

Hometown:               Burnside, Pulaski County, Kentucky

Residence:     1934-1939 Cincinnati, OH
                        1940-1944 Pulaski County, KY
                        1944-1950 Detroit, MI
                        1950- Ann Arbor, MI 

Life Events:     Married Harold B. Arnow in 1939    

Education:      Berea College, KY 1924-1926
                         B.A. from University of Louisville, 1931

Employment: Teacher: Pulaski County, KY
                        Assistant: Federal Writers Project, WPA, Cincinnati, OH
       
Awards:          1949 Saturday Review “Best Novel” for Hunter’s Horn                                          

Publications:
                        Mountain Path, 1936
                        Between the Flowers, 1999
                        Hunter’s Horn, 1949
                        The Dollmaker, 1954
                        Seedtime on the Cumberland, 1960
                        Flowering of the Cumberland, 1963
                        The Weedkiller’s Daughter, 1970
                        The Kentucky Trace, 1974
                        Old Burnside, 1977

Sources:         
            Harriette Simpson Arnow at Wikipedia
            Harriette Arnow Collection at Berea College
            Harriette Simpson Arnow at Kentucky Digital Library
            Harriette Simposon Arnow at Kentucky Encyclopedia

Harriette Simpson Arnow papers, 1907-2004 The Harriette Simpson Arnow papers (54.71 cubic feet, dated 1907-2004) provide a broad look at a writer’s life and work. Included are materials that document her writing process, from first-draft manuscripts on dime store tablets, through various iterations and drafts, to printer page proofs. Also included are correspondence with family, editors, publishers (especially Alfred A. Knopf and Macmillan Company), and literary agents such as Russell and Volkening, Inc. Researchers will find mail from readers, photographs, speeches, and materials documenting Arnow’s political interests such as McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee, the Vietnam War, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Book reviews, scholarly articles, and dissertations written about Arnow’s work are also featured in the papers.

Guide to the Harriette Simpson Arnow Collection These are papers relating to the life and writings of Harriette Simpson Arnow (1908-1986). The collection consists mainly of clippings, correspondence, manuscript fragments, miscellaneous essays, and reviews of Arnow’s work. There are also Pulaski County school photographs with Arnow’s handwritten captions and Detroit News photos of Arnow and her children at home.

1/11/2017

Elisabeth Offutt Allen

Name:                         Elisabeth Offutt Allen                                                                       

Date of birth:             Dec. 8, 1895                                       
Date of death:            May 22, 1980

Place of birth:            Bloomfield, KY
Place of death:           Louisville, KY

Place of burial:           Cave Hill Cemetery Louisville, KY; Plot Section 34 Lot 255-WP

Hometown:                Louisville, KY
Residence:                  Louisville, KY

Life Events:                 Married William Hogue Allen, November 23 1921; 2 children

Education:                  Kentucky College for Women, Mount Holyoke College

Publications:
                                    Fringes of sky (1966)
                                    The hounds of the moon (1974)
                                    Skip to my loo, my darling (1973)
                                    Petals from the dogwood tree (1977)
                                    This tangled web (1966)
Sources:         

Copy of book for sale: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Fringes-Of-The-Sky-1966-Hardback-Poems-by-Elisabeth-Offutt-Allen-/321527317520


 
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James Lane Allen

Name:                         James Lane Allen

Date of birth:             December 21, 1849                                                               
Date of death:            February 18, 1925     
Place of birth:            near Lexington, KY

Place of death:           New York City
Place of burial:           Lexington Cemetery

Residence:      New York City (1893-1925)

Education:      Transylvania University, 1872, 1877   
Occupation:    Educator, Writer       

Publications:
      Flute and Violin (1891) (compilation of previously published stories)

The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky (1892) (second compilation)

 John Gray (1893)


Aftermath (1895) (sequel to A Kentucky Cardinal)















The Landmark (1925)

 Sources:
                       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lane_Allen

                       http://www.kyenc.org/entry/a/ALLEN02.html

                       http://kdl.kyvl.org/catalog/xt7wh707xb23/guide

                       http://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt798s4jmj0t/guide

 

James Taylor Adams

Name:                          James Taylor Adams

Date of birth:             February 3, 1892       
Date of death:            September 3, 1954

Place of birth:            Letcher County, KY
Place of death:           Big Laurel, Wise County, VA

Hometown:                Little Colly, Letcher County, KY
Residence:                  Wise County, VA

Employment:             Virginia Writers Project
Publications:

Vanover, F. D., & Adams, J. T. (1937). James Taylor Adams: A brief biography.

Adams, J. T., & Federal Theatre Project (U.S.). (1939). Folk songs of the Cumberlands.


Adams, J. T. (1983). Family burying grounds in Wise County, Virginia.

Adams, J. T. (1971). James Taylor Adams collection.

Adams, J. T., Dean, F., & Henson, E. L. (1993). Grandpap told me tales: Memories of an Appalachian childhood.
In Adams, J. T. (1929). Adams family records: A genealogical and biographical history of           all branches of the Adams family including Addams, Adam, Adamson, McAdams and          corresponding names in other languages.

Sources:         
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=127179037


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