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Bibliography--BM31W Project

Published Sources

Books/ Journal Essays

Beck, Jane C. "Newton Washburn, Traditional Basket Maker." In Traditional Craftsmanship in America: A Diagnostic Report, compiled and edited by Charles Camp, 72-26. Washington D.C.: National Council for the Traditional Arts, 1983.

Brown, G. From Crossroads to Cub Run: A Brief History of Cub Run, Kentucky.

Cave City, KY: Cave Country Newspapers, Inc, 1988.

Camp, Charles. " 'The Craft So Longe To Lerne:' Traditional Craftsmanship and Its Uses In American Society." In Traditional Craftsmanship in America: A Diagnostic Report, compiled and edited by Charles Camp, 13-30. Washington

D.C.: National Council for the Traditional Arts, 1983.

Childress, Anderson J. Beyond the Crossroads. Owensboro KY: McDowell Publishing Company, 1981.

Cogswell, Robert. Date(?). Cultural Intervention in Southern Appalachia: Agents and Agendas. Southern Folklore 49: 196-220.

Eaton, Allen H. Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1937. Reprint edition New York: Dover, 1973.

George, Phyllis. Kentucky Crafts: Handmade and Heartfelt. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1989

Gordon, Joleen. With Baskets, Traps and Brooms: Traditional crafts in Nova Scotia. Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum, 1984.

Hunt, Marjorie. The Stone Carvers: Master Craftsmen of Washington National Cathedral. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999.

Irwin, John Rice. Baskets and Basket Makers in Southern Appalachia. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, LTD., 1982.

Jones, Michael Owen. " 'If You Make a Simple Thing, You Gotta Sell it at a Simple Price:' Folk Art Production As a Business, Part II." Kentucky Folklore Record 18, no. 1: 5-12, 1972.

Jones, Michael Owen. " 'If You Make a Simple Thing, You Gotta Sell it at a Simple Price:' Folk Art Production As a Business, Part III." Kentucky Folklore Record 18, no. 1: 31-40, 1972.

Jones, Michael Owen. The Handmade Object and Its Maker. Berkeley: University Of California Press, 1975.

Joyce, Rosemary O. A Bearer of Tradition: Dwight Stump, Basketmaker. Athens And London: University of Georgia Press, 1989.

Lasansky, Jeannette. Willow, Oak &Rye: Basket Traditions in Pennsylvania. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1979.

Law, Rachel Nash and Cynthia W. Taylor. Appalachian White Oak Basket Making: Handing Down the Basket. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991.

Martin-Perdue, Nancy J. "Case Study: On Eaton's Trail: A Genealogical Study of Virginia Basket Makers." In Traditional Craftsmanship in America: A Diagnostic Report, complied and edited by Charles Camp, 79-100. Washington D.C.: National Council for the Traditional Arts, 1983.

Stephenson, Sue H. Basketry of the Appalachian Mountains. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1977.

Sutherland, David. "Traditional Basketmaking in Kentucky." Kentucky Folklore Record 18, no. 1: 89-92, 1972.

Tinsley, Laura Rollins. Practical and Artistic Basketry. Chicago: Beckley-Cardy Company, 1904.

Whisnant, David E. All That is Native and Fine. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1983.

Newspaper/Magazine Articles

Barker, Garry. "Kentucky crafts: Traditional quality lies behind the current surge in Sales. [Louisville, Ky.] Courier Journal, November 13, 1981.

Brown, Mike. "Oh! Kentucky premieres in Washington." [Louisville, KY.] Courier Journal--DATE ?

Bybee, Emma. "The Basket Makers of Wax." Rural Kentuckian Magazine, May 1963, pp. 2-7. Cogswell, Robert. "Tom Bates, Basketweaver." Back Home in Kentucky, March/April 1984, pp. 36-37.

Cropper, Carol Marie. "Nobody does it better than Kentucky in marketing growing crafts Industry." [Louisville, KY.] Courier Journal, August 14, 1986.

Elson, Martha. "Craft show creates a market for state artisans." [Louisville, KY.] Courier Journal, March 11, 1988.

Grant, Nancy S. "The Basket Makers." Rural Kentuckian Magazine, February 1987, pp. 20-24.

Hardaway, Howard. "Kentucky Basket Maker is Busy at 84." Hart County Historical Quarterly, July 2000, pp.28-29.

Heilenman, Diane. "Guild has kept crafts on track for 25 years." [Louisville, KY.] Courier Journal, July 6, 1986.

Smith, Tom. "It Takes Big Families to Weave Baskets." In History of Hart County, edited By Judge Roy Cann. Mimeographed. Munfordville, KY: Hart County Historical

Society, Rewrite of article published in Hart County News, 1940.

Ward, Joe. "Kentucky's crafts industry still booming in wake of high-flying days of Phyllis George." [Louisville, KY] Courier Journal, February 11, 1985.

Unpublished Sources

Bevil, W. I. "Hart County is Center of Kentucky Basket Industry." In History of Hart County, edited by Judge Roy Cann. Mimeographed. Munfordville, KY: Hart County Historical Society, N.D.

Brown, Jim, and Judith Schottenfeld. Transcription of Tape Recorded Interview with Rec Childress, Basket Making in the Mammoth Cave Area Collection, 1974,

1977, FA 98, Library Special Collections, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green.

Cogswell, Robert. "A Tradition of Inequity: Marketing Baskets in Kentucky and Tennessee." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society, Baltimore, MD, October 23, 1986.

Cosgrove, John. "The Process of Basket Making." Unpublished Student Paper, 1972, No. 1972- 13, Folklife Archives, Library Special Collections, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green.

Fekety, Steve. "Basket Making." Unpublished Student Paper, 1972, No. 1972-212, Folklife Archives, Library Special Collections, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green.

Harzoff, Elizabeth. Transcription of Tape Recorded Interview with Stanley Cottrell, Basket Making in the Mammoth Cave Area Collection, 1974, 1977, FA 98, Library Special Collections, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green.

Jaggers, Ben. "The Art of Basket Making." Unpublished Student Paper, 1972, No. 1972-18, Folklife Archives, Library Special Collections, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green.

Kiely, Dennis O. "The Loving of the Game: A Study of Basketry in the Mammoth Cave Area." MA thesis, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, 1983.

Ludden, Keith. Transcription of Tape Recorded Interview with Audie Dennison, Basket Making in the Mammoth Cave Area Collection, 1974, 1977, FA 98, Library Special Collections, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green.

Marshall, John, and Judith Schottenfeld. Transcription of Tape Recorded Interview with Anderson Childress, Basket Making in the Mammoth Cave Area Collection,

1974, 1977, FA 98, Library Special Collections, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green. Northern, Keith. "Basket Weaving in Grayson County." Unpublished Student Paper,

1976, No. 1976-5, Folklife Archives, Library Special Collections, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green.

Sadewasser, Judy. "The Folkways of Walter D. Logsdon, Basketmaker." Unpublished Student Paper, 1974, No. 1974-94, Folklife Archives, Library Special Collections, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green.

Waldrop, Melanie. "Basket Making for Walter Logsdon: 'A Way of Life.'" Unpublished Student Paper, 1976, No. 1976-13, Folklife Archives, Library Special Collections, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green.