Kentucky Folk Architecture

by William Lynwood Montell and Michael L. Morse

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813108438
• ISBN13: 9780813108438
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"