by kitchensisters | Jan 23, 2019 | Podcast, The Keepers
Our latest podcast episode, The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System, is a collaboration with another podcast, Library Bytegeist, “a collection of stories from the front lines and fringes of libraries,” hosted by Molly Schwartz and brought to you by the...
by kitchensisters | Jan 22, 2019 | Podcast, The Keepers
This week on The Kitchen Sisters Present… podcast, we take a look at the Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System… Melvil Dewey, the father of library science and the inventor of the most popular library classification system in the world, was a known racist...
by kitchensisters | Jan 15, 2019 | Hidden Kitchens, Podcast, The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Georgia Gilmore & the Club from Nowhere In honor of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, we reprise the story of Georgia Gilmore and her secret civil rights kitchen. In the 1950s, a group of Montgomery, Alabama women baked goods to help fund the...
by Barrett Golding | Jan 8, 2019 | Podcast, The Keepers
William Ferris grew up on a farm in Warren County, Mississippi in the 1940s and 50s. The Ferris family, the only white family on the farm, worked side by side with African Americans in the fields. As a teenager he began documenting his neighbors’ lives, the...
by kitchensisters | Dec 20, 2018 | Podcast, The Keepers
Tony Gonzalez, a radio journalist in Nashville, called The Keeper Hotline to tell us about a Tennessee keeper named Bobby Fulcher. “He is a musicologist, a recorder of oral histories. He has been documenting traditional rural folk musicians for more than forty...
by kitchensisters | Dec 18, 2018 | Podcast, The Keepers
“Every story matters. The challenge is getting that story to the historical record. Simply putting it into the archive is maybe not enough.” -Doug Boyd, Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries. Listen to this story...
