The Nunn Center’s oral history interview with legendary jockey Eddie Arcaro has been recently uploaded to the Kentuckiana Digital Library.  Arcaro is considered by many as the greatest jockey in horse racing history being the only jockey to have won the Triple Crown twice.  Additionally, Arcaro started as a rider for Calumet Farm in 1934 which is in the news this week.  In honor of this year’s Kentucky Derby, I thought I would point you to two episodes of Saving Stories on WUKY that we recorded featuring Arcaro. 

Listen to the episodes:

Part 1 |   Part 2

If you want to hear the full interview, listen in on Eddie using our OHMS system for searching.

Link to the full interview

To access the rest of the Horse Industry in Kentucky Oral History Project online on the Kentuckiana Digital Library click here.  To read more about Arcaro, check out this article at ESPN.com. 

From Combat to Kentucky is an ongoing oral history project that documents Kentucky’s student veterans and their individual experiences during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Interviews focus on each veteran’s military experience as well as their transition back into civilian life, particularly into higher education.

These powerful interviews are on our website http://www.c2ky.org and are being accessed all over the world. The Nunn Center has been preserving veteran’s stories for over 30 years and we want to make your story part of history.

To participate or to obtain more information, contact Doug Boyd with the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries at 859-257-9672 or doug.boyd@uky.edu

Go Cats!

Image: Exterior view of Neville Hall when it was a new dormitory. Purchased February 17, 1986. Photographer: Edgar C. Loevenhart. b / w, 5.5 inches by 6.5 inches.

In this episode, Blair discusses the origins of the idea, their motivation behind the protest, as well as the aftermath of the sit-in.

Listen to the Episode

To hear the entire oral history interview, go to SPOKE, the Nunn Center’s online catalog of oral histories.

The Haiti Memory Project is the brainchild of Claire Antone Payton, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and Institute of French Studies at NYU, where she focuses on Haitian history. Beginning in 2011, Payton partnered with our center (the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries), to house, preserve,digitize and make available to the public this important historical collection of narratives.  The Haiti Memory Project explores life in the Caribbean country before and after the earthquake. The project’s interviews offer Haitians the opportunity to tell their own story of what has happened to their homeland. While almost all of the interviews reference the earthquake, many of the accounts focus on life after the event, including life in refugee camps. Interviews range from 30 minutes to approximately two hours and reflect such topics as politics, culture, medicine, religion and attitudes toward foreigners. Payton collected the interviews between June and December 2010.

The Nunn Center intends for the oral history project to be accessible to researchers around the world via the Internet and provide Haitians access to this pivotal moment in their history. Our hope is to present these interviews online using the Nunn Center’s OHMS system for search and discovery.  To browse the Haiti Memory project collection in SPOKE, the Nunn Center’s online catalog of interview, go to http://www.kentuckyoralhistory.org.

To learn more about this amazing project take a look at a recent news story: http://www.kyforward.com/?p=7748

An interview with Morgan French, July 25, 1985