Kentucky Folk Architecture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813108438)

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 ou

Author: William Lynwood Montell,Michael L. Morse
ISBN-10: 0813108438
ISBN-13: 9780813108438
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 11/02/1995
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.52w x 0.32d