Kentucky middle school student gets a bourbon history lesson from Jim Beam's Booker Noe

WUKY's Saving Stories celebrates Bourbon Heritage Month with this special episode. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History Director Dr. Doug Boyd shares this 1991 interview with Frederick Booker Noe II, who discusses the bourbon industry and the history of Jim Beam. The Nunn Center has conducted more than one hundred bourbon-related interviews spanning generations of famous personalities, but it wasn't until recently that Boyd and staff discovered this rare conversation between Noe and a Kentucky middle school student. The interviews were part of an educational media project under the direction of Henderson County North Middle School teacher Roy Pullam.

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Kentucky middle school student gets a bourbon history lesson from Jim Beam's Booker Noe is an episode from Saving Stories by WUKY.

This episode is 4:58 long.

This episode was published on Sep 12, 2025.

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