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Author: Jeff Walter Publisher: Falcon Guides ISBN: 9781573801133 Category : Bluegrass Region (Ky.) Languages : en Pages : 0
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Whiskey, racehorses and burley tobacco. That's what comes to mind for many when they think about Lexington and the Central Kentucky region. The updated 4th edition of The Insiders' Guide "RM" to Lexington & the Kentucky Bluegrass will show you this and a whole lot more -- including an extravaganza of colorful people, exciting events and breathtaking natural beauty. Plus you'll find recommendations for the area's best accommodations, shopping spots, golf courses, festivals and fun things for kids to do.
Author: Jeff Walter Publisher: Falcon Guides ISBN: 9781573801133 Category : Bluegrass Region (Ky.) Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Whiskey, racehorses and burley tobacco. That's what comes to mind for many when they think about Lexington and the Central Kentucky region. The updated 4th edition of The Insiders' Guide "RM" to Lexington & the Kentucky Bluegrass will show you this and a whole lot more -- including an extravaganza of colorful people, exciting events and breathtaking natural beauty. Plus you'll find recommendations for the area's best accommodations, shopping spots, golf courses, festivals and fun things for kids to do.
Author: Sally Denton Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 9780595196661 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 412
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When Kentucky Blueblood Drew Thornton parachuted to his death in September 1985—carrying thousands in cash and 150 pounds of cocaine—the gruesome end of his startling life blew open a scandal that reached to the most secret circles of the U.S. government. The story of Thornton and “The Company” he served, and the lone heroic fight of State Policeman Ralph Ross against an international web of corruption is one of the most portentous tales of the 20th century.
Author: James C. Klotter Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813140439 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 378
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Originally established in 1775 the town of Lexington, Kentucky grew quickly into a national cultural center amongst the rolling green hills of the Bluegrass Region. Nicknamed the "Athens of the West," Lexington and the surrounding area became a leader in higher education, visual arts, architecture, and music, and the center of the horse breeding and racing industries. The national impact of the Bluegrass was further confirmed by prominent Kentucky figures such as Henry Clay and John C. Breckinridge. Bluegrass Renaissance: The History and Culture of Central Kentucky, 1792-1852, chronicles Lexington's development as one of the most important educational and cultural centers in America during the first half of the nineteenth century. Editors Daniel Rowland and James C. Klotter gather leading scholars to examine the successes and failures of Central Kentuckians from statehood to the death of Henry Clay, in an investigation of the area's cultural and economic development and national influence. Bluegrass Renaissance is an interdisciplinary study of the evolution of Lexington's status as antebellum Kentucky's cultural metropolis.
Author: Carolyn Murray-Wooley Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813147794 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 240
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Gray rock fences built of ancient limestone are hallmarks of Kentucky's Bluegrass landscape. Why did Kentucky farmers turn to rock as fence-building material when most had earlier used hardwood rails? Who were the masons responsible for Kentucky's lovely rock fences and what are the different rock forms used in this region? In this generously illustrated book, Carolyn Murray-Wooley and Karl Raitz address those questions and explore the background of Kentucky's rock fences, the talent and skill of the fence masons, and the Irish and Scottish models they followed in their work. They also correct inaccurate popular perceptions about the fences and use census data and archival documents to identify the fence masons and where they worked. As the book reveals, the earliest settlers in Kentucky built dry-laid fences around eighteenth-century farmsteads, cemeteries, and mills. Fence building increased dramatically during the nineteenth century so that by the 1880s rock fences lined most roads, bounded pastures and farmyards throughout the Bluegrass. Farmers also built or commissioned rock fences in New England, the Nashville Basin, and the Texas hill country, but the Bluegrass may have had the most extensive collection of quarried rock fences in North America. This is the first book-length study on any American fence type. Filled with detailed fence descriptions, an extensive list of masons' names, drawings, photographs, and a helpful glossary, it will appeal to folklorists, historians, geographers, architects, landscape architects, and masons, as well as general readers intrigued by Kentucky's rock fences.
Author: Randolph Hollingsworth Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738524665 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 202
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A history of the city located in the heart of central Kentucky Bluegrass country traces Lexington's long, proud past which reaches far back before the “Horse Capital of the World” reared its first thoroughbred, claiming the first college, newspaper, and millionaire west of the Alleghenies--among many other firsts. Original.
Author: Joshua H. Leet Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1614233314 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 168
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Although no great Civil War battles were fought in Lexington, Kentucky, the city afforded some of the greatest military and political leaders on each side. It produced the Honorable Henry Clay, whose efforts postponed the war by at least a decade. The city touched the lives of both Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln, whose wife, Mary Todd, spent her early years there. This breeding ground of power molded the careers and characters of men like John C. Breckinridge and John Hunt Morgan. Authors Josh Leet and Karen Leet introduce the men and women of Lexington who shaped United States history and whose lives were forever changed by the war that shook the nation.
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