Saving Stories

This week marks the 45th anniversary of the Kent State shootings.  Alan Lytle and Doug Boyd from the Nunn Center recall student reaction on the UK campus.

A highly talented basketball team, top ranked all season long, heavily favored to win a national title...sound familiar?  It should.  In this special edition of Saving Stories we recall Kentucky's triumphant march to the title in 1978.  Who better to talk about that historic run than Mr. Wildcat?  Bill Keightley served as the team's equipment manager until his death in 2008.

As the University of Kentucky continues to celebrate its sesquicentennial we take a look back at efforts to desegregate the school.  Lincoln County native George Logan, one of the first African American students to attend UK talks about the racism he encountered back in 1951.

This week marks the fifth anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti that killed more than 300,000 people.  The Nunn Center's Doug Boyd talks about a major oral history project surrounding that disaster, the ongoing rebuild, and the challenge of translating many of these eyewitness accounts from Haitian-Creole into English.

A new documentary being aired in Kentucky will introduce viewers to the colorful characters who craft bourbon.  The documentary draws from oral history interviews conducted by the University of Kentucky's Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History.   In this special edition of Saving Stories Alan Lytle talks with Center Director Doug Boyd about "Kentucky Bourbon Tales: Distilling the Family Business."

On this Veterans' Day, we get a rare first-hand account of life in the trenches during the "War To End All Wars" fought a century ago.

Dr. Doug Boyd discusses the Nunn Center's ongoing project to chronicle Kentucky's bourbon industry, including master distiller Jimmy Russell.

A treasure trove of recorded broadcasts are introducing a new generation of UK sports fans to the talents of the late Claude Sullivan.

To mark the 7oth Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion we hear from a Kentucky soldier who survived the bloody conflict.

Today's segment illustrates the power and reach of UK's Oral History collection to touch lives across the globe.