Kentucky Derby Memories: Oral History with Jockey Eddie Arcaro

Eddie Arcaro: Courtesy Special Collections and Digital Programs, University of Kentucky Libraries

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. 

Nunn Center Partners with BCTC to Interview Student Veterans

The Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries has partnered with Bluegrass Community and Technical College (BCTC) for the award-winning oral history project From Combat to Kentucky. If you are a student veteran who is currently or previously enrolled at BCTC, we would like to include your story in the project.

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

March Madness 2012: University of Kentucky Basketball

In celebration of the University of Kentucky’s appearance in the 2012 NCAA men’s basketball tournament, we are uploading the video created to raise awareness for the Big Blue Sports Archive initiative. Celebrate the tradition of Kentucky basketball with a celebration of oral history and archives.

Go Cats!

Bourbon Documentary Featured by YouTube

The Louie B. Nunn Oral History Center’s award-winning documentary, “Quest for the Perfect Bourbon: Voices of Buffalo Trace Distillery,” is being featured by YouTube’s new “Intelligent Channel.” “Quest” is being utilized to debut the “Education Archive” component of the channel.   If you haven’t seen the documentary, go check it out on the Intelligent Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/IntelligentChannel/featured