Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History Director
Doug Boyd released the latest podcast of The Wisdom Project last week on the 20th
anniversary of the Heaven Hill Distillery fire. In addition, he was on WUKY for
an episode of “Saving Stories.”
According to the web page notes for Episode #007 Trial
by Fire: Looking back at the Heaven Hill Distillery fire, “On November 7, 1996, the
Heaven Hill Distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky experienced one of the most
devastating distillery fires of all time. Seven bourbon warehouses were
destroyed, 50% of the distilling building, as well the office building and
several smaller buildings were severely damaged. Marking the 20th anniversary
of the fire, this episode looks back from multiple perspectives, featuring Max
Shapira (president), Craig Beam (master distiller), and Maj. Charles “Chuck”
Montgomery (firefighter).”
Interviews
featured in this episode are from the Kentucky Bourbon Tales Oral History
Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the University of Kentucky
Libraries.
Full interviews are online:
Interview with Max Shapira: kentuckyoralhistory.org/catalog/xt7rn872z750
Interview with Craig and Parker
Beam: kentuckyoralhistory.org/catalog/xt7pnv998w93
Interview with Maj. Charles
Montgomery: kentuckyoralhistory.org/catalog/xt7w6m335355
Interview with six master distillers
(Jimmy Russell, Bill Samuels, Chris Morris, Craig Beam, Jim Rutledge, Marc
Coffman) : kentuckyoralhistory.org/catalog/xt7nk9315h3p
View the initial news reporting
(WHAS helicopter footage): youtu.be/v6XtnqDLC_k
The Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral
History, a part of UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center, debuted The
Wisdom Project podcast in October 2015. The series of history related podcasts
come from oral interviews and projects that have been carefully selected from
the Nunn Center’s collection of nearly 10,000 interviews.
All of the podcasts are housed at
the Louie B. Nunn Center in the Margaret I. King Library on the UK campus. The
Wisdom Project is online at nunncenter.org/wisdomproject/ and is available on SoundCloud.
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