Kentucky Folk Architecture (The Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf) - Hardcover

Montell, William Lynwood

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813102308 ISBN 13: 9780813102306

Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky, 1976

Synopsis

" A concise and amply illustrated introduction to Kentucky folk structures--log cabins, houses, cribs, and barns--that should be treasured as irreplaceable expressions of the cultural values of the Commonwealth's past.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Scattered across the Kentucky landscape are hundreds of folk structures - log cabins, cribs, barns - that carry on traditions preserved in wood construction and in memory rather than on paper. Like folk songs, tales, and regional dialects, material culture reveals the ways colonial and Old World legacies have survived and traveled across regions. As William Lynwood Montell and Michael Lynn Morse assert, folk architecture offers the best examples of such expression since houses, barns, and other outbuildings served settlers' most pressing needs.

Review:

"Folk buildings, constructed by local mechanics, are like folktales and folksongs: they are a durable expression of traditional cultural patters transformed from previous generations."―Come-All-Ye

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0813102308
• ISBN 13: 9780813102306
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120