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Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Lillard Rodgers was an Eastern alum receiving his bachelor's degree in 1947 and a master's in 1962. He went on to be a teacher in the Casey County, Kentucky school system. This collection consists mostly of news clippings of Edwin Finch's "Kentuckiana All Over" column that was published by the Courier-Journal in the 1940s and 1950s, including 13 scrapbooks and a folder of loose clippings. In addition there are other mid twentieth century tourism publications and educational materials.
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Administrative Information
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Acquisition Source:
Rodgers, Lillard
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- UnitID: 31234013790876
- Folder 1: Flags for Schools Promotion, 1963
- Information about the Courier-Journal program to provide low cost flags to Kentucky Schools. Also includes a Kentucky state flag.
- Folder 2: Geography 101 Maps and Resources, 1949-1950
- The notebook includes statistics on coal mining and agriculture broken down by counties and including mining employment.
- Folder 3: Hammond's Supreme Map of the World
- Folder 4: Historic Kentucky Highways, 1948-1954
- Two issues.
- Folder 5: in Kentucky, 1957
- Two issues, one undated.
- Folder 6: Kentucky History Workbook, 1951
- By Harlow Publishing.
- Folder 7: Kentucky Publications, 1954-1970
- Item 1: Know Your Kentucky
- Based on the popular radio quiz show "Romance of Kentucky."
- Item 2: Kentucky School Journal, Mar, 1954
- Includes an article by John D. Rowlett.
- Item 3: Scenic South, Jun, 1955
- Almost half the volume is devoted to Berea College.
- Item 4: 21st Anniversary Pioneer Playhouse Program, 1970
- Program for the play "See How They Run."
- Folder 8: Liberty, Casey County, Kentucky Brochure, 1967
- Folder 9: Liberty Christian Church
- Includes a brief history and a news clipping about church fundraising.
- Folder 10: Weekly Reader, 1948
- Two issues of a newspaper geared toward school children.
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