C-SPAN's Book TV to Feature UK Oral Historian, UPK Authors
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 25, 2011) − This weekend five University Press of Kentucky (UPK) authors, including Doug Boyd, director of the University of Kentucky Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, will be featured on C-SPAN's Book TV. The interviews with Kentucky writers is part of two days of programming on the history and literary life of Frankfort, Ky., airing Aug. 27-28, on the cable network’s nonfiction book channel, Book TV on C-SPAN2 (Insight cable channel 446), and history channel, American History TV on C-SPAN3 (Insight cable channel 447).
In partnership with the Frankfort Plant Board and as part of visits to eight southeastern cities, C-SPAN producers earlier this year visited various literary and historic sites in the Frankfort area, interviewing local historians, authors and civic leaders. C-SPAN has dubbed the regional circuit as its "2011 LCV Cities Tour" because C-SPAN producers are traveling in specially detailed Ford Transit Connect vehicles, which they are calling Local Content Vehicles (LCVs). Outfitted with the most current digital camera, editing and other recording technologies, each member of the LCV team was equipped to shoot and edit video on location as well as make presentations to the community about the work they do for C-SPAN.
The programs C-SPAN produced in Frankfort will air multiple times the weekend of Aug. 27-28, on Book TV and American History TV. Programming on Book TV features Connie Crowe, the manager of the Kentucky Book Fair, a visit to Poor Richard's Bookstore, and interviews with five UPK authors about their recent books.
UPK authors and books to be featured on Book TV are:
- Lindsey Apple, author of "The Family Legacy of Henry Clay: In the Shadow of a Kentucky Patriarch," a story of Henry Clay and his family;
- oral historian Doug Boyd, of UK Libraries' Nunn Center, on his book "Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community," which documents the demolition of a Frankfort neighborhood and the displacement of its residents;
- Kent Masterson Brown, author of "One of Morgan’s Men: Memoirs of Lieutenant John M. Porter of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry," which explores the Civil War in Kentucky;
- Brad Asher, author of "Cecilia and Fanny: The Remarkable Friendship Between an Escaped Slave and Her Former Mistress," which details the relationship between an escaped slave and her owner; and
- Mike Veach, who wrote the foreword to the book "The Social History of Bourbon," which looks at the impact of bourbon on Kentucky and the nation.
To see specific times for coverage on each of these publications, visit C-SPAN Book TV online at www.booktv.org/Schedule.aspx.
In addition to coverage of Kentucky authors, C-SPAN's history channel will look at some major moments in the history of the Commonwealth. The program will focus on the assassination of Kentucky Governor William Goebel; Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan and the role he played in several Supreme Court rulings on civil rights; Buffalo Trace Distillery and how Prohibition impacted the state and the nation; the Kentucky History Center and its collections; Daniel Boone’s gravesite; the Old State Capitol; Fort Hill; and the Old State Arsenal.
Frankfort marks the mid-way point for the "2011 LCV Cities Tour." Other stops on the tour are Tampa, Fla.; Savannah, Ga.; Charleston, S.C.; Charlotte, N.C.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Birmingham, Ala.; and Baton Rouge, La.
"Crawfish Bottom" is Boyd's second book with UPK, he is also co-editor of "Community Memories: A Glimpse of African American Life in Frankfort, Kentucky." Before taking the director position at the Nunn Center at UK Libraries, the oral historian previously managed the digital program for University of Alabama Libraries, served as the director of the Kentucky Oral History Commission, and prior to that as the senior archivist for the oral history and folklife collections at the Kentucky Historical Society. Boyd, who received his doctorate in folklore from Indiana University and his undergraduate degree in history from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, serves on the executive council of the Oral History Association.
Offices for the administrative, editorial, production and marketing departments of UPK are found at UK, which provides financial support toward the operating expenses of the book publisher.
For more information or to purchase any of these books from UPK, visit the press online at www.kentuckypress.com.
MEDIA CONTACT: Whitney Hale, (859) 257-8716 or whitney.hale@uky.edu