Hapax Legomena

Elizabeth Farrar, a student in Dr. Sutherland's English 6 Public Speaking class at the University of Kentucky, describes television in 1939. Acetate record via Tim Stamps.

Joe Hodges, a student in Dr. Sutherland's English 6 Public Speaking class at the University of Kentucky, describes coal mining in 1939. Acetate record via Tim Stamps.

This is a complimentary 45rpm single distributed by Bergeron Plymouth in New Orleans, Louisiana. It features "Trosclair" (J.B. Kling Jr.), "The Voice of Bergeron Plymouth, reciting a "Cajun" interpretation of Clement Moore's popular Christmas poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas." The flip side includes five commercials for Bergeron Plymouth. The "announcer" is Bill Stanley of WDSU, New Orleans.

An August 10, 1989 interview in which the artist Stuart A. Sherman (November 9, 1945 – September, 14 2001) remembers the actor, director, and playwright Charles Braun Ludlam (April 12, 1943 – May 28, 1987).

Thomas Bryant, Jr., a student in Dr. Sutherland's English 6 Public Speaking class at the University of Kentucky, describes the hemp industry in Kentucky as it existed in 1938. Acetate record via Tim Stamps.

Robert B. Rudd graduated from Hamilton College in 1909, and became an English professor at Dartmouth College. This record was recorded in 1966 by James L. Hildebrand. You can hear the ice clinking in Rudd's glass as he reads & reminisces.

The Pasture (Robert Frost)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

The Prodigal Son (Rudyard Kipling)

The Oxen (Thomas Hardy)

The Donkey (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

Journey of the Magi (T.S. Eliot)

The Magi (William Butler Yeats)

"Hey Nonni No!" (Anonymous)

English 9: Lecture on Chekhov (Rudd)

Kubla Khan (Coleridge)

Musee des Beaux Arts (W.H. Auden)

So We'll Go No More A-Roving (Byron)

Memorabilia (Robert Browning)

They Are Not Long (Ernest Dowsen)

Tarantella (Hilare Belloc)

Sagesse (Paul Verlaine)

Love Poem (John Frederick Nims)

The Lucy Poems I (Wordsworth)

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars (Lovelace)

The Good-Morrow (John Donne)

Heart, We Will Forget Him! (Dickenson)