Episode #007 Trial by Fire: Looking back at the Heaven Hill Distillery Fire
On November 7, 1996, the Heaven Hill Distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky experienced one of the most devastating distillery fires of…
The Wisdom Project is an oral history podcast produced by the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the University of Kentucky Libraries. The Wisdom Project podcast features stories drawn from interviews and projects from the Nunn Center’s extensive collection of over 10,000 interviews.
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Episode #006: The Writing on the Wall: An American Soldier in Italy
Episode #006 of the Wisdom Project tells a story of archival discovery, linking Marshall Webb, a World War II veteran from…
Episode #005: Take Her Out to the Ballgame: Effa Manley and Negro League Baseball
Episode #005 features an oral history interview with Effa Manley, the first African American woman to own a professional baseball team. She…
Episode #004: Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Robert Penn Warren
Episode #004 utilizes two oral history interviews conducted by poet/author Robert Penn Warren in 1964 with Dr. Martin Luther King…
Episode #003: Veterans’ Stories: Remembering the D-Day Invasion
In honor of Veterans Day, episode #003 of the Wisdom Project focuses attention on the stories of two World War II veterans…
Episode #002: Original Recipe for a Kentucky Startup
Episode #002 features an oral history interview with Colonel Harland Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and explores the foundational story of…
Episode #001: Interviewing Jackie O
Episode #001 Explores an oral history interview with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis from 1981. The interview was conducted by Terry Birdwhistell for the…
