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The special collections library at Murray State University is collecting and digitally preserving photographs of old class photos and schoolhouses in…
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NASA's Apollo 15 mission launched on this day 45 years ago. One of the goals of the mission was to conduct scientific experiments on the moon using the…
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Paducah area native J. Polk Brooks found a unique business opportunity in western Kentucky during a time when most of the country was in financial…
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Barkley Regional Airport in Paducah is celebrating 70 years of service this year. Vice President, and western Kentucky native, Alben Barkley was…
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Decades before the construction of Murray State in Calloway County, there existed a college farther west in Hickman County, called Marvin College, and…
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Folktales and legends, natural remedies and "old wives tales" have a remarkable way of traveling with settlers, taking on a life of its own wherever…
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Far too often, the everyday stories of our communities get lost in history: stories of an old opera house, recollections of childhood memories from the…
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Our Women's History Month Series continues with a look at the incredible collection of Alney Alba, a woman who was born and died in Calloway County, but…
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June Laffoon Taylor was born in Earlington, just south of Madisonville in 1921. After graduating from Murray State University, she went on to a lifetime…
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Pogue Library at Murray State University is home to numerous special collections and oral history projects. One of these recordings is the voice of Murray…