Kentucky New Era
KY: Historical Society - Keeneland Changing Exhibits Gallery - Current Exhibition
A Journal, Remarks or Observations in a Voyage Down the Kentucky, Ohio, Mississippi Rivers &c is 24-year-old John Stuart's 1806 journal of a flatboat trip from central Kentucky to New Orleans and back. Housed in KHS special collections, the journal inspired the museum theatre production Current Events: The Flatboat Adventures of John G. Stuart ... Climb aboard an 1806 riverboat and journey with John G. Stuart as he makes his way from Boonesborough to New Orleans . . . and then walks back home to Kentucky. Free with admission. Contact Greg Hardison at ... [Read More]
Kentucky Archaeology Video Series
WPA Archaeology: Legacy of an Era. In Depression-era Kentucky, people needed jobs. Roosevelt's New Deal programs did just that, funding hundreds of labor projects, from road construction and forest conservation to cultural programs in music, art, and history. Archaeological research, too, provided much needed jobs. These projects transformed Kentucky's prehistoric mounds and village sites into work opportunities for thousands of otherwise jobless Kentuckians through the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) archaeology program. ... [Read More]
Kentucky: Council on Postsecondary Education - State and National
The Kentucky New Era (Hopkinsville) ... New York Post ... Kentucky Newspapers ... [Read More]
Kentucky.gov: - Archived News
AIK COMP SUSPENDS WRITING OF NEW, RENEWAL BUSINESS Assessment, coverage of injured workers continues ... New Service Works to Assist Military Personnel Vote in the General Election ... Operation Scarecrow Rounds-Up Several Drug Arrests in Western Kentucky ... [Read More]
Historic Preservation - Information about Civil War Cemeteries
When South Carolina seceded, Major Robert Anderson, commanding the Federal forces in Charleston, South Carolina, secretly moved his garrison from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter. The question whether his little force should be withdrawn or supported agitated the closing weeks of the Buchanan administration and the opening weeks of the Lincoln administration. While the fate of Fort Sumter was being discussed, the Confederacy took over all but four of the forts, arsenals, and military posts in the South. Against the advice of some members of his Cabinet, Lincoln finally decided not to reinforce but to provision the fort, and this decision precipitated the crisis, and the war. On April 11, 1861, Brigadier General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, who was in command of Confederate forces in Charleston, acting on somewhat ambiguous instructions from Montgomery, demanded an immediate surrender of the fort; when this was refused, Confederate batteries opened fire on the Stars and Stripes at daw ... [Read More]
On The Road: Kentucky's Roadside Commercial Architecture
By the time of the Great Depression, the prevailing idea was to jump-start the economy through automobile usage and construction of new service and recreational facilities accessible solely by car. The effect of these policies, whichguide decisionmaking even today, was far-reaching. New types ofbuildings were created to serve the automobile and a new dispersed landscape was established. This exhibit focuses on commercial architecture of the roadside in its infancy---from 1920 to 1960. It must be remembered that, prior to this era, most businesses were housed in two-to-three story "Main Street" buildings. The new commercial buildings were extremely experimental, and went through several phases of evolution in plan, style, and placement on their respective lots. The new pattern of development changed Kentucky's landscape dramatically. It is difficult to overstate the changes made when Americans began to reshape their cities with cars. However, the historic buildings from this era differ ... [Read More]
Newsline
Using a touch-tone telephone and toll-free number, visually impaired or disabled Kentuckians can access NFB-NEWSLINE each day to hear national and local news stories. Currently, Kentuckians can listen to the Lexington Herald-Leader, Louisville Courier-Journal and Kentucky Enquirer newspapers by telephone, as well as more than 150 other newspapers and three magazines. Two daily newspapers will be added each month to the service giving users access to 11 Kentucky newspapers within four months. Currently, 38 states are participating in the service. ... [Read More]
KY: Historical Society - Museums & Exhibitions - "A Kentucky Journey"
It is divided into eight main areas, chronicling life in Kentucky from prehistoric times to the present: First Kentuckians (10,000 B.C.-A.D. 1750), The Kentucky Frontier (1750-1800), The Antebellum Age (1800-1860), War and Aftermath (1860-1875), Continuity and Change (1875-1900), The New Century (1900-1930), Depression and War (1930-1950) and Many Sides of Kentucky (1950-today). Another area, Pure Kentucky, highlights the lives and contributions of famous Kentuckians through artifacts, from a boxing robe worn by Muhammad Ali and "scrubs" signed by ER star George Clooney to a suit that belonged to bluegrass music pioneer Bill Monroe and a warm-up suit from Olympic swimming gold medalist Mary T. Meagher Plant. ... [Read More]
Kentucky.gov: - Archived News
Kentucky.gov > News Center > Kentucky Historical Society > Archived News ... The Kentucky Historical Society plans to launch its new Civil Rights Oral History Project website on January 12, 2005 in time for Martin Luther King Day observances and Black History Month in February. The new site features Kentuckians sharing their personal experiences with the Civil Rights Movement in their own words with access to over 300 hours of audio content, 18 hours of video content, and over 10,000 pages of electronic oral history transcriptions. ... [Read More]
KY: Historical Society - KOHC - The Softer Side of Hard Times Press Room
FRANKFORT, Ky. (April 6, 2004) The Kentucky Historical Society will unveil its newest exhibit at the Kentucky History Center in downtown Frankfort on Saturday, April 17. "The Softer Side of Hard Times, Kentucky Depression-era Quilts," brings together handcrafted quilts, artifacts and photographs of that era, many being seen for the first time. ... DEPRESSION-ERA QUILTS TO BE FEATURED IN NEW EXHIBIT ... A majority of the quilts on display are from the Kentucky Historical Society collection while others are on loan from the University of Kentucky, Western Kentucky University and various private collections. Kentucky counties represented in "The Softer Side of Hard Times, Kentucky Depression-era Quilts" include Jefferson, Lee, Fayette, Muhlenberg, Warren, Green, Marion, Scott, Mercer, Franklin, Jackson, Breckenridge and Grayson. ... [Read More]
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