In this radio short, folklorist and 2014 WKU Folk Studies grad Lilli Tichinin introduces excerpts from a collection of interviews conducted by Larry Morrisey during his Folklorists in the Park Project residency at Pennyrile State Park and the Pennyrile region of Western Kentucky in 1996. These interviews -- part of a series of 30 interviews in Hopkins, Caldwell, and Christian County -- were conducted in conjunction with the Kentucky Oral History Commission (KOHC).

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Lilli Tichinin -- Larry Morrissey, Folklorists in the Park Project at Pennyrile State Park, 1996

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Lilli Tichinin -- Larry Morrissey, Folklorists in the Park Project at Pennyrile State Park, 1996

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