The Allen County Folklife and Oral History Project

In 2011, The Western Kentucky University Folk Studies Department received a grant from the Laura Goad Turner Charitable Foundation to document  traditional culture in Allen County, Kentucky, through the Allen County Folklife and Oral History Project.  In the course of the project, we researched individual areas of interest with those who have lived and worked in Allen County in order to understand and accurately represent the unique perspective of its residents.

 As part of the Project, we transcribed and archived our materials in the Kentucky Library and Museum at Western, as well as made our collected material available at the Community Action Center in Scottsville.