Stephen Tirone
Women In The Military
Dusti Lewis
Transformation
Pam Oldfield Meade
Mr. Nardie
Adair Bath Bell Boyd Breathitt Carter Casey
Clark Clay Clinton Cumberland Edmonson Elliott Estill Fleming Floyd Garrard Green Greenup Harlan Hart Johnson Knott Knox Laurel Lawrence Lee Leslie Letcher Lewis Madison Magoffin Martin Mason Menifee Montgomery Morgan Owsley Perry Pike Pulaski Rowan Russell Wolfe
Jackson Lincoln McCreary Monroe Powell Rockcastle Russell Wayne Whitley
Design & Development
By Gloria Stepp Design
Architecture
Artists
Historical Music Recordings
Oral Histories
Public Art
Morgan County StatisticsKentucky PostSecondary Education Profile (CPE) .PDF file
Fedstats
Architecture back to top
Burchwell, Ray, Archeological Site PhotosRedbush vicinity, KY
Architecture: Prehistoric
Cooper, Judge John E., House Photos
709 N. Main St.
West Liberty, KY
Architecture: I-House
Hill, Ray, Archeological Site Photos
Redbush vicinity, KY
Architecture: Prehistoric
Lonnie Hill Site Photos
Redbush vicinity, KY
Architecture: Prehistoric
Morgan County Courthouse Photos
Main St.
West Liberty, KY
Architecture: NA
Patoker Archeological Site Photos
Relief vicinity, KY
Architecture: Prehistoric
Sherman Archeological Site Photos
Relief vicinity, KY
Architecture: Prehistoric
Artists back to top
Bill Barker 4095 Liberty Road
West Liberty, KY 41472
Martin Cox 1437 Highway 3345
Ezel, KY 41425
Paul Cox RR7, Box 710
Olive Hill, KY 41164
Pam Oldfield Meade Mixed media/painter
9349 Hwy 460 East
West Liberty, KY, 41472
606-743-1237
pambob@mrtc.com
Dean Hill Photography 11607 Hwy 437
West Liberty, KY 41472
606-522-3935
hilld@mrtc.com
Debbie Perry P.O. Box 371
West Liberty, KY 41472
Elsa Ison Salyers Painting
38 Melody Circle
West Liberty,
Ky 41472
Email: elsaison@hotmail.com
Phone: 606-743-3203
Deloris Sargent 5016 Highway 1002
West Liberty, KY 41472
Painting
Morgan County District website
Morgan County High School Sculpture of a panther (mascot) on school grounds
Morgan Central Elementary School
West Liberty Elementary School
Arts Organizations back to top
Morgan County Shutterbugs Photography ClubMeets the second Monday each month at 6 pm.Morgan County Office Building
450 Prestonsburg Street
West Liberty, KY 41472-1165
For more information about the club contact:
Shelia Allen
Phone: 606/725-4276
Email: manohova@gmail.com
Barbara Stacy
Phone: 606/743-4876
Email: poohbarb@gmail.com
Display and Selling Venues back to top
Morgan County Sorghum Festival
Last full weekend of September
100 art and craft displays
Morgan County Fair and Mountain Horse Show August
Market in the ParkMarket in the Park takes place in August and showcases artists, crafts people, and locally grown produce among other stuff.General Resources back to top
West Liberty Tourism 565 Main St.
West Liberty, KY 41472
606-743-3330
Fax: 606-743-2202
wliberty@mrtc.com
MorganMinute.com Online media outlet for Morgan County and West Liberty, KY
Historical Music Recordings back to top
“Bonaparte’s Retreat,” fiddle tune played by Sanford Kelly, recorded by John Harrod, John Harrod Kentucky Fiddle Music Collection, Berea College Southern Appalachian Archives
“Flannery’s Dream,” fiddle tune played by Sanford Kelly, recorded by John Harrod, John Harrod Kentucky Fiddle Music Collection, Berea College Southern Appalachian Archives
Oral Histories back to top
Debi Horton, Painter, Sculptor, Jeweler
VideoAudio and Images
Transcript Video
Audio and Images
Transcript
Ethel & Michael Tepe, Artists, Interview by Abby Brading
Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk CultureKENTUCKY COLLECTIONS
IN THE ARCHIVE OF FOLK CULTURE
Compiled by: Gregory Jenkins, Joseph C. Hickerson, and Ann C. Taft
Series Editor: Ann Hoog
Revised: December 2010
AFC 1937/001: Alan Lomax and Elizabeth Lomax Kentucky Collection Two hundred and twenty-eight 12-inch discs of songs and instrumentals recorded in eastern Kentucky by Alan and Elizabeth Lomax, September and October 1937. Includes performances by Boyd Asher of Hyden, Nora Bagley of Pine Mountain, Maynard Britton of Big Creek, Bill Bundy of Manchester, Tilman Cadle of Pineville, George Davis of Hazard, Jack Garland of Arjay, Jim Garland of Pineville, Munroe Gavedon of West Liberty, Mrs. Nell Hampton of Salyersville, Theophilus G. Hoskins of Hyden, James Howard of Harlan, J. M. Mullins of West Liberty, Mrs. Liza Pace of Hyden, W. M. Stepp of Salyersville, Luther Strong of Hazard, G. D. Vowell of Harlan, Clay Walters of Salyersville, and Walter Williams of Salyersville. (includes AFS 1374-1601) (32 hours; tape copy on LWO 4872 reels 101A-117A) [catalog record]
http://lccn.loc.gov/2008700304
A collection of field recordings made on Presto discs by Alan Lomax and his wife Elizabeth Lomax in eastern Kentucky in September and October 1937 for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. The collection includes folk songs, ballads, hymns, camp meeting songs, union songs, coal miners' songs, blues, children's songs, stories; banjo, harmonica, guitar, and dulcimer music; and a large number of fiddle tunes.
AFC 1972/025: Peter R. Hoover CollectionTwenty-two 10-inch tapes of primarily instrumental music recorded in Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia by Peter R. Hoover, 1959-67. Mostly instrumental folk music, including also music derived from Ireland, Scotland (from Howard Glasser Collection), Iowa, and Washington, D.C. Also "History of Classic Jazz." [catalog record]
Summary: Collection of field recordings of old-time banjo, fiddle, and guitar music and folk songs recorded by Peter R. Hoover between 1959 and 1967, at the homes of the performers or local venues in Hillsville, Independence, Galax, Fancy Gap, Baywood, Five Forks, and Cana, Virginia; Swannanoa, North Turkey Creek, Laurel Section, Culberson, Robbinsville, and Cherokee, North Carolina; Harmony Grove, Reedsville, Cascade, Mt. Zion, and Glenville, West Virginia; in Bear Branch, Hyden, and West Liberty, Kentucky; Thorn Hill, Tennessee; Tate City, and Epworth, Georgia; Bradford Woods, Stahlstown, Ligonier, Glencoe, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; a square dance, with calls, recorded in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Other instruments on the recordings include mandolin, piano, and blues music on Hawaiian guitar. The collection also includes some copies of Scottish instrumental dance music and marches from the archives of the School of Scottish Studies performed on fiddle, Jew's harp, accordion, and bagpipes by various performers; Irish music on flute and tin whistle recorded in Pennsylvania, and fiddle and banjo music performed informally at the Glenville, West Virginia State Folk Festival in June, 1967. The collection includes a few copies of commercial recordings of old-time music, and the "History of Classic Jazz."
http://lccn.loc.gov/2009655403
http://www.fieldrecorder.com/docs/collectors/hoover.htm
AFC 1975/018: Lasserre Bradley / Primitive Baptist Music of North Carolina and Kentucky Seven 7-inch tapes of Primitive Baptist music recorded at various congregations in North Carolina and Kentucky by Lasserre Bradley, Jr., Baptist Bible Hour Broadcast, Cincinnati, 1961-71.
AFS 15,063B
One tape containing fiddle tunes performed by Santford Kelly of West Liberty, Kentucky, recorded August 1961. (1 hour; LWO 6880 reel 11B)AFS 15,067B-15,068A
Two tapes containing fiddle and banjo tunes performed by Smith Brown and Santford Kelly of West Liberty, Kentucky, recorded August 1963.(1 hour and 30 minutes; LWO 6880 reels 15B-16A)
AFS 17,495
One tape containing songs sung by Lenville Ball of West Liberty, Kentucky, recorded in Pike County, Kentucky, ca. 1971. (1 hour; LWO 8398 reel 1)http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Kentucky.html
Public Art back to top
Slide Show back to top Special Events back to top
Morgan County Sorghum Festival
Sept. 28-30
100 art and craft displays
Bluegrass Music Festival
Old Mill Park
July
Morgan County Fair and Mountain Horse Show August
Special Projects back to top