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The Wisdom Project Podcast

The Wisdom Project podcast is produced by the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the University of Kentucky Libraries. The podcast features stories drawn from oral history interviews and projec... Read more

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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Remembering Thomas Merton

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Remembering Thomas Merton

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was interviewed in Louisville, KY in 2013 for filmmaker Morgan C. Atkinson's documentar... Read more

31 Jan 2022

10mins

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Dancing with Princesses: Englishman, Sailor, Priest, Kentuckian

Dancing with Princesses: Englishman, Sailor, Priest, Kentuckian

This episode features an interview with Mark Lyon Thornewill, interviewed on January 23, 2018. In addition to telling a ... Read more

19 Nov 2021

31mins

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Local Spirits: Ghosts at the Wild Turkey Distillery

Local Spirits: Ghosts at the Wild Turkey Distillery

This episode explores ghost stories about ghosts at the Wild Turkey Distillery.  The ghost stories are from an oral hist... Read more

25 Oct 2021

11mins

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Remembering 9/11, A Flight Attendant's Perspective

Remembering 9/11, A Flight Attendant's Perspective

In honor of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, this episode features a powerful oral history interview conducted ... Read more

10 Sep 2021

25mins

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Freedom Singer: Civil Rights Activist Charles Neblett

Freedom Singer: Civil Rights Activist Charles Neblett

This episode explores the personal story of civil rights activist Charles Neblett who was a member of the Freedom Singer... Read more

1 Feb 2018

20mins

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Moonshiners and Revenuers

Moonshiners and Revenuers

This episode explores the story of moonshine in Wayne County, Kentucky. Interviews are part of the Moonshiners and Reven... Read more

16 Jan 2018

27mins

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Trial by Fire: Looking back at the Heaven Hill Distillery Fire

Trial by Fire: Looking back at the Heaven Hill Distillery Fire

On November 7, 1996, the Heaven Hill Distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky experienced one of the most devastating distiller... Read more

7 Nov 2016

20mins

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The Writing on the Wall: An American Soldier in Italy

The Writing on the Wall: An American Soldier in Italy

Episode #006 of the Wisdom Project tells a story of archival discovery, linking Marshall Webb, a World War II veteran fr... Read more

27 Oct 2016

19mins

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Take Her Out to the Ballgame: Effa Manley and Negro League Baseball

Take Her Out to the Ballgame: Effa Manley and Negro League Baseball

Episode #005 features an oral history interview with Effa Manley, the first African American woman to own a professional... Read more

8 Apr 2016

21mins

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Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Robert Penn Warren

Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Robert Penn Warren

Episode #004 utilizes two oral history interviews conducted by poet/author Robert Penn Warren in 1964 with Dr. Martin Lu... Read more

18 Jan 2016

16mins

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