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The monster was the subject of a 1988 film by Louisville filmmaker Ron Schildknecht called The Legend of the Pope Lick Monster. [6] The 16-minute, $6,000 film premiered on December 29, 1988, at the Uptown Theater.
This book has been one of Kentucky's best known books for folk tales. In 1847, Theodore O'Hara, who was born in Danville, wrote one of America's best elegies. Regarding historical literature, the History of Kentucky was published in 1847 by Lewis Collins, and later expanded in 1874 by his son Richard Henry Collins. This work is a mine of ...
The Hillbilly Beast of Kentucky is supposedly 8–10 ft (2.4–3.0 m) tall and weighs over 800 Ib (362.8 kg), the Hillbilly Beast of Kentucky also reportedly has black eyes that glow orange during the night and vocalizes using shouts and banging on trees, it shares the rest of its features with the aforementioned Bigfoot.
The Ethnomusicology Archive at UCLA includes the D.K. Wilgus Collection, his collection of 3,000 field recordings and 8,000 commercial recordings of folk music. [5] It was donated by Wilgus's widow, Eleanor R. Long-Wilgus, an eminent ballad scholar in her own right and who had collaborated with Wilgus on research into blues and Irish ballads.
A video on "History and Mystery: The Folklore and Legends of the Bristol Hills" debuts Nov. 9 at Cumming Nature Center.
At age 70, Hiser published Quare Do's in Appalachia: East Kentucky Legends and Memorats (Pikeville, Kentucky: Pikeville College Press, 1978), a collection of folktales, ghost stories, and tales she collected. [3] [4] which was in its second printing by 1981. [5]
A good bit of Appalachian history and arts got soaked in the record flooding in Eastern Kentucky.. In Whitesburg, water may have breached the vault at Appalshop, where the arts and media ...