Kentucky oral history projects awarded $55,000 in grants

July 11, 2016

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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – Twenty oral history projects will receive about $55,000 in grants to support work on topics ranging from the Kentucky Chili Bun Trail in eastern Kentucky to the African-American experience in Hopkinsville.

The Kentucky Oral History Commission announced the grants last week. The grants are for new projects as well as transcriptions and indexing of existing oral history interviews.

The commission said the grants are intended to encourage statewide collection, preservation and access to historically valuable interviews.

The Kentucky Historical Society administers and houses the commission and says it’s the only one of its kind in the U.S. dedicated to providing financial and technical assistance to oral history repositories and oral historians.

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Online: http://history.ky.gov/grant-recipients