Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier Recent documents in Lynn E. Niedermeier en-us Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:43:17 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/24 http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/24 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:39:10 PDT Bowling Green native Lida Calvert Obenchain wrote popular fiction and campaigned for woman suffrage. Interviewed after her first book of stories, Aunt Jane of Kentucky, was published under her pen name "Eliza Calvert Hall," Lida spoke about her family, literature, women's rights, and her work for the Kentucky Equal Rights Association. The interview, conducted by journalist Ewing Galloway, is reproduced here, with annotations to amplify the content. Lynn E. Niedermeier Bowling Green & Warren County - History http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/23 http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/23 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:19:18 PDT Before the establishment of Western Kentucky University on its hilltop campus, the area was known as "Vinegar Hill," a rocky, overgrown, unsavory and haunted place. In 1912, an elderly African-American resident of the neighboring community of Jonesville recounted its ghostly history to a local newspaper reporter. Lynn E. Niedermeier Western Kentucky University - History Bowling Green & Warren County - History http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/22 http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/22 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:44:55 PDT Before Bowling Green secured a public library, two women's clubs joined in 1898 to create a private lending library for their own study and enjoyment and that of their fellow citizens. As the Woman's Library grew, some 200 members of the public paid a fee for borrowing privileges. By the time the library was donated to the Board of Education in 1913, it boasted 2,500 volumes. Lynn E. Niedermeier Bowling Green & Warren County - History http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/21 http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/21 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:15:26 PDT In 1931, Depression-struck oil producers in Warren, Simpson and Allen Counties created the Bowling Green Refining Company to convert local crude into gasoline. With a daily capacity of 1,500 barrels, the company produced its brand of "Kentucky Maid" gasoline at a forty-acre facility near Memphis Junction. Service stations throughout the area sold Kentucky Maid until 1936, when supply problems forced the company into liquidation. Lynn E. Niedermeier Bowling Green & Warren County - History http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/19 http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/19 Sun, 31 May 2009 11:09:07 PDT Since their first football game in 1931 and their first men's basketball game in 1932, WKU and Murray State University have enjoyed a natural, spirited, and at times bitter athletic rivalry. For most of five decades, the schools met in the final game of their football seasons, and in basketball they regularly clashed in Ohio Valley Conference play. Anytime the day of "the Western-Murray game" approached, particularly in the 1950s, administrators struggled to maintain order on their campuses in the face of student pranks, graffiti attacks and other extreme expressions of school loyalty. Lynn E. Niedermeier Western Kentucky University - History http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/18 http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/18 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:42:20 PDT From a single main dining room in Potter Hall, WKU's campus food service has expanded to include restaurants, cafes, convenience stores and food courts, all of which endeavor to provide busy students with choice, economy and flexibility. Lynn E. Niedermeier Western Kentucky University - History http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/17 http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/17 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:19:42 PST Some tidbits of WKU history for each day of the month. Lynn E. Niedermeier Western Kentucky University - History http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/16 http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/16 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:34:23 PST In the early 1970s, African American students at Western Kentucky University took the first steps toward organizing themselves into a strong voice on campus, supporting a curriculum of black studies, sponsoring social and cultural events, and protesting discriminatory activity. Lynn E. Niedermeier Western Kentucky University - History http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/15 http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/15 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:30:59 PST Western Kentucky University's student recruitment strategies were enthusiastically devised by its first president, Henry Hardin Cherry, who used extensive mailing lists, clever advertising, and on-campus programs to attract new students to campus. Lynn E. Niedermeier Western Kentucky University - History http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/14 http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/14 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:26:10 PST In the early twentieth century, groups of students from the Western Kentucky State Normal School (now Western Kentucky University) observed an annual tradition by embarking on field trips to Mammoth Cave. They fondly remembered their experiences hiking, camping, and touring the great natural wonder. Lynn E. Niedermeier Western Kentucky University - History