By Associated Press
Frankfort, KY – The Kentucky Historical Society Foundation has received a $100,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to promote an oral history project called "Pass the Word: The Guide to Oral History in Kentucky." The project will create an online database allowing researchers and educators to easily locate oral history collections and interviews held in libraries and archives across the Commonwealth. In the next two years, the state Historical Society says it will hire one full-time archivist and two summer interns to complete the project. The organization says the project is expected to be completed and ready for use by 2013.