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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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.

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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

"Elisabeth Offutt Allen." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2001. Literature Resource Center. Web. 15 Sept. 2016. http://go.galegroup.com.proxy1.nku.edu/ps/headerQuickSearch.do?quickSearchTerm=Allen%2C+Elisabeth+offutt&inputFieldName%280%29=OQE&searchType=BasicSearchForm&userGroupName=steely&nwf=y&prodId=LitRC&stw.option=&quicksearchIndex=OQE&spellCheck=true

 

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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)

A Kentucky Cardinal (1894)

Aftermath (1895) (sequel to A Kentucky Cardinal)

Summer in Arcady (1896)

The Choir Invisible (1897)

Two Gentlemen of Kentucky (1899)

The Reign of Law (1900)

The Mettle of the Pasture (1903)

The Bride of the Mistletoe (1909)

The Doctor's Christmas Eve (1910)

The Heroine in Bronze (1912)

The Last Christmas Tree (1914)

The Sword of Youth (1915)

A Cathedral Singer (1916)

The Kentucky Warbler (1918)

The Emblems of Fidelity (1919)

The Alabaster Box (1923)

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:

Adams, J. T. (1929). Adams family records: A genealogical and biographical history of all    branches of the Adams family, including Addams, Adam, Addamson, McAdams and corresponding names in other languages.

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

Adams, J. T. (1924). Adams family records: A genealogical and biographical history of all branches of the Adams family.

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

Adams, J. T. (n.d.). Engravings of members of the Adams family.

Adams, J. T. (1941). Death in the dark: A collection of factual ballads of American mine disasters : with historical notes.

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

Adams, J. T. (1971). Wise County historical inventory: Family burying grounds.

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

https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/516553?availability=Family%20History%20Library

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Sam Abell

Sam Abell                                        

Date of birth:             February, 19, 1945                                                                
Place of birth:            Sylvania, Ohio
 
Residence:                  Albemarle County, Virginia

Education:                  University of Kentucky, 1969, BA

Employment:             National Geographic, 1970-

Occupation:                Photographer, Editor, Teacher, Artist, Author

Publications:              Stay this moment: the photographs of Sam Abell
                                    Contemplative gardens
                                    The inward garden: creating a place of beauty and meaning
                                    Australia: a journey through a timeless land
                                    Seeing gardens
                                    Lewis & Clark: Voyage of discovery
                                    Sam Abell: the photographic life
                                    Distant thunder: a photographic essay on the American Civil War
                                    Life of a photograph
                                    Amazonia
                                    Sam Abell Library
Sources:         

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Abell

http://samabell.com/
                                                                                                                        http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2008/10/21/legendary_geographic_photograp/

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/contributors/a/photographer-sam-abell/