This piece by Bess McHone takes up archival oral histories with students of Lou Tate -- a weaver, teacher, and entrepeneur who helped established Louisville's influential Little Loomhouse. Lou Tate helped develop the table loom, and was an influential force in the cottage weaving industry in Kentucky.

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Bess McHone -- Louisville Kentucky's Little Loomhouse

This feed is for the audio + sonic productions of the WKU Folk Studies Program, a masters' program in folk studies based at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The feed features radio pieces using archival and oral history audio footage from Dr. Michael Ann Williams's Cultural Conservation class from Fall 2013. All pieces are student-researched and produced by graduate students in our department! Look out for more coming soon! 

Bess McHone -- Louisville Kentucky's Little Loomhouse

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