Author of 5 books, including the new “Anatomy of a Duel.” Past exec dir of Perryville Battlefield Preservation Assoc. Work in public history.
Joined January 2014
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A nice review of the new book!
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8,600 interviews. 20 years of work. Countless Kentucky stories!
KHS has digitized its entire oral history collection, preserving voices from across the Commonwealth for future generations.
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RIP to Wendell Berry, one or the best literary voices this state has ever produced.
Berry was a brilliant writer who spent his life advocating for environment, conservation and the small farmer in rural America
A genius from Henry County who was the best of the Commonwealth
Just stumbled upon this gem from an 1877 KY newspaper:
“We have received a poem from a young Kentuckian in California. Ten years hence he will thank us for not publishing it.”
Ouch.
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Christopher Gist was a frontiersman and surveyor whose knowledge and experience of western lands George Washington relied on while they traveled to the Ohio Country in 1754.
This recently acquired journal opens in November of 1753 when Washington requests Gist's services to address the French encroachment in the Ohio Valley. This is one of a few documents that help us shed light on a young George Washington.
You can read that and more online here: bit.ly/4pxWfSX
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Tonight at 8/7, or streaming anytime, Kentucky Life. Lost River Cave, dog mayors, Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History, and The Official Burt the Cat Fanclub newsletter. ket.org/program/kentucky-lif…
Poster from the @CentreC 2012 VP debate on display at the library of the @KyHistSoc !
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Tune in at 8 on KET as Kentucky Tonight explores state history with John Kleber of @moreheadstate, @simonmeiners of Frazier History Museum, @StuartWSanders of @KyHistSoc and Gerald Smith of @universityofky.
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My daughter came home from college her freshman year with a girl I had never met and no advance warning whatsoever. Just walked through our front door on a Friday evening in November dragging her own suitcase and another girl’s behind her like it was completely normal.
“Dad, this is Amara. She’s staying with us for Thanksgiving”
I looked at my wife. My wife looked at me
“Nice to meet you, Amara,” I said. “You hungry?”
She nodded without making eye contact. Thin in a way that wasn’t natural.
Wearing a jacket inside that she kept on through dinner despite our house being warm. She ate carefully the way my daughter’s friend Leo used to eat. Like someone rationing gratitude so as not to appear too desperate for what was on the plate in front of them.
After dinner my daughter helped me with dishes and I asked quietly what was going on.
She turned to me with the same steady eyes her mother has when she has already decided something and is just waiting for everyone else to catch up.
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Beautiful moment
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Scientists believe they have found previously unknown sketch of Anne Boleyn share.google/aiw774pGwSeFos4… – at Stoughton, MA
