Fraternity’s ‘second mom’ remembered for her cooking, love
Grace Cook in her kitchen of the Sigma Chi house at the University of Kentucky. Photo provided Elinor Grace Cook took care of the brothers of Sigma Chi for three decades. After she retired in 1994,...
View ArticleFifth book about Louisville’s Bingham family is the most revealing
The disintegration of the Bingham family’s Louisville media dynasty in 1986 prompted no fewer than four books about patriarch Robert Worth Bingham and the two talented but troubled generations he left...
View ArticleCentennial celebration planned Saturday for historic Duncan Park
A cyclist rode up North Limestone Street past an entrance to Duncan Park at the corner of Fifth Street. The park originally was a wealthy merchant’s estate. Photos by Tom Eblen There’s a party...
View ArticleAfrican American Encyclopedia reveals untold Kentucky stories
Gerald Smith and his co-editors spent most of a decade working on the newly published Kentucky African American Encyclopedia. It wasn’t just research, writing and editing; they had to raise much of the...
View ArticleIf we can’t face facts about the Civil War, how can we ever deal with modern...
You have to wonder: With all of the challenges our state and nation faces, why do we still spend so much time arguing about the Civil War? Well, there are a couple of reasons. The first reason is that...
View ArticleAshland event showcases little-known fact: 150 years ago, Henry Clay’s farm...
The Mechanical Building at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky was located on the Ashland farm, about where Fincastle and Sycamore roads are now. The building was demolished for their...
View ArticleWith Breeders’ Cup coming, black jockey Isaac Murphy gets his due
The most celebrated jockey in Lexington this month won’t be riding in Keeneland’s fall meet, or afterward at the Breeders’ Cup. In fact, he died 119 years ago. Isaac Burns Murphy, a black Kentuckian...
View ArticleAbandoned mill’s discovery recalls once-thriving Kentucky industry
University of Kentucky anthropologist Nancy O’Malley and Lexington electrician Jerry Nichols explored an old Madison County mill, which was built in 1865 and ceased operations in the 1930s. Somehow,...
View ArticleKentucky’s ‘paradise lost’ estate for sale for first time in 131 years.
David Meade built the octagonal parlor at right at Chaumiere des Prairies about 1823. The rest of his house was a collection of log cabins, now long gone. The Greek Revival house now to the parlor’s...
View ArticleFoster Pettit’s posthumous memoir offers interesting history, lessons in good...
A big reason Lexington has prospered over the past 40 years is a gutsy decision by politicians and voters in the early 1970s to create a non-partisan merger of city and county governments. As...
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