Sometimes you are chosen. Sometimes a Cat approaches. Cat asks if you'd like to play HORSE. "Sure," you say, remembering those sweaty Driveway Days, "what fun would be a Catted game of HORSE." You set down your Stanley. "You didn't hear me correctly," Cat says. Cat says, "HOARSE." "HOARSE?" "HOARSE from such great bonksketball cheerings," Cat explains. "Bonks--?" But before the second syllable Cat seizes you and whispers, "A is for the Apple of my Eli." Cat beams a message into your mind: "I cannot tell a lie." "Shoot it," Cat says. "Shoot the bonksketball," Cat beams. You do. "H."
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we know you go gaga for "The Reflexes of Syllabic Liquids in Ancient Greek: Linguistic Prehistory of the Greek Dialects and Homeric Kunstsprache" as much as we do, but let's face it: some books are a little more pop-you-lar than others 💗🧹💚
and believe us: we don't play favorites — every tome's a treasure here, like a sparkly golden flake in the great big nugget of human knowledge 🌟 but some books you stay up to read 🐉⚔️🏰 and some seem specially designed to put you to sleep (and bless them for that) 🧬🌉⚗️
so to make the more thrilling titles among us feel special (and to help you, sweet Cats), we gave them a dedicated space on the first floor of that charming Book Barn known as Willy T 🐴 there's even a whiteboard there where you can invite more fun friends into the club!
yes, Cats, Wild Ones, rejoice with us: it's like your favorite bookstore but everything's free; it's like we can all share and also get everything we want; it's like there really is enough to go around; abundance abounding; a waterfall of delight into a pool of paradise; a Popular Reading Collection 🌺🏞️📚
2. The One With the Queen of Country
The undisputed Queen of Country, Loretta Lynn grew up the daughter of a coal miner in Butcher Holler, Kentucky. With her one-of-a-kind straight-shooting style, she became one of the first women to rise to superstardom as a country vocalist while confronting many of the major social issues of her time, from the Vietnam War to contraception. Writing mostly her own material (unlike many of her contemporaries) Lynn brought twang, grit, and her woman’s point of view to traditional honky-tonk themes, creating a new character in the country scene: the take-no-crap woman narrator. In this interview from 1987, Lynn discusses her humble beginnings in Butcher Holler and how she began playing music and performing as a teenage mother. An American icon, her career would stretch an incredible 60 years and change music forever.
🎙️ Watch the whole interview here: https://bit.ly/4jxHUm5
the cat kingdom's only 3-for-1 library
like when Brad's Drink became Pepsi, the former Science & Engineering Library is now the King Library Annex ~~~
it's bursting at the seams!!
The Stacks: Digital Scholarship Center
✏️🍎 reservable study rooms
🖥️📈 big honkin computers for data viz
😻🛰️ groovy presentation space
Science & Engineering Library
🎒😭 more study rooms
🌉🏗️ how to design bridges
⚗️🔬 what are molecules???
Maps Library
🗺️📍 250,000 maps and GIS Lab
⏱️🔮 low-key the best study spot on campus
🏕️🔦 never get lost again
See you next year, Cats! 😻
To be a Cat is timeless 💎
4. The One With the Wonder of Being Alive
The most famous monk of the modern era, Thomas Merton spent nearly three decades at the Gethsemani Abbey outside Bardstown, Kentucky. A paradoxical figure caught between the desire for silence and the overwhelming need to break it, he found worldwide fame in his pursuit of a life of contemplation: a mystic, a poet, and an activist, Merton authored over 50 books on spirituality, social justice, and pacifism. The Nunn Center is home to 44 interviews gathered by the documentarian Morgan C. Atkinson during the production of his two films on Merton, Soul Searching: The Journey of Thomas Merton and The Many Storeys and Last Days of Thomas Merton. They offer incredible insights into the life, thought, and practice of a complex figure who found meaning and purpose in the midst of crisis.
This clip is from a 2015 interview with Dr. Christopher Pramuk, a Merton scholar and theologian.
Explore the collection here: https://bit.ly/3COsbxV
When the Little Library is the biggest in our hearts 😻💖
Let us count the ways:
The best windows on campus 🌞
Mid-century modern chairs 💺
Works by Kentucky artists 🎨
A haunted Victrola Talking Machine 👻
Bookeye scanner 👁️
Two floors of study space ✏️
Viewing & listening stations for all the operas and concertos our singing souls can handle 🎶
An unbeatable acronym (LCLFADL) 🔠
Artists books, scores, slide collections, acting editions of plays 🎭
a factory for tra-la-las / a standing ovation built of bricks / a library and a work of art
On March 30, 1944, Private Marshall A. Webb of Campbellsville, Kentucky carved his name on a wall in the small town of Tremensuoli, Italy. 70 years later, his name would connect an Italian researcher with the Nunn Center and UK Libraries collections in an incredible story of archival discovery.
Hear the whole tale in the latest episode of WUKY's Saving Stories: https://bit.ly/3Z1IX5m
6. The One with the Many-Spoked Wheel
There must be something in the Kentucky air that really whirrs the mind. Just look at what happens when pens touch paper around here: the way they gallop and jump! Yes, there’s horses, hills, stills, and rivers in these inkwells of ours. For over 30 years of exquisite wordsmithery and insight into the Kentucky-creative process, tilt your ear to the legions of poets, novelists, critics, and storytellers contained in the Kentucky Writers Oral History Project. Across 106 interviews, classic Kentucky writers like Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Penn Warren, James Still, Guy Davenport, Bobbie Ann Mason, Wendell Berry, Barbara Kingsolver, Nikky Finney, Crystal Wilkinson, Frank X Walker, and many more, discuss their lives, their craft, and the influence that Kentucky has had in their work.
In this clip, former UK professor and National Book Award-winning poet Nikky Finney reflects on the many meanings of the word “creativity” during a July 25, 2001 interview. The video contains portraits of many other authors featured in the collection.
🎙️ Explore the whole collection here: https://bit.ly/3uaPEVS
After a brief hiatus, the Top 50 Countdown is back! We used the down time to listen (again) to all 18,000+ interviews in the Nunn Center collections to make absolutely sure we had the most magical Top 7 possible ✨ Without further ado:
7. The One Where We Marched on Frankfort
On March 5, 1964, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Robinson, and many of Kentucky's civil rights leaders marched with an estimated 10,000 people to the Kentucky state capitol to peacefully demonstrate against segregation and discrimination in Kentucky. The march helped spur the passage of the Kentucky Civil Rights Act in 1966 that made discrimination illegal in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The 1964 Civil Rights March on Frankfort Oral History Project contains 11 interviews that explore that day and the impact of the March on the fight for civil rights. This project is one of many that contain stories of life under segregation and of the protests, demonstrations, and activism that made change possible. The Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame Oral History Project, created through a partnership with the Kentucky Human Rights Commission and the UK Office of Community Engagement, provides an in-depth look at the leaders of the movement. The Georgia Davis Powers Oral History Project zooms in even closer on the life of one of those leaders, Georgia Davis Powers, who would go on to be the first Black woman to serve in the Kentucky State Senate.
The video clip is from an October 18, 2021 interview with Barbara Hudson, who was a young woman during the March in 1964. She describes her participation that day as “probably the most important thing that I've ever done in my life.”
🎙️ Explore the collection here: https://bit.ly/3UkExUk
Egad! It's midterm season 😱 and you know what that means! It's time to diagram cellular respiration, finally figure out what a polyvalent bond is, and graph some parabolas 📈⚗️
Don't scratch your notes into a stone wall like a prisoner!! Check out some markers from the Ask Us desk and glide with ice-skater-like ease across the smooth glossy expanse of the Whiteboard Walls on the 2nd Floor of Willy T ⛸️🌼😻
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