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Candlelight tours at one of Kentucky’s grandest Old South mansions
Ward Hall, completed in 1857, is considered one of the nation’s finest Greek Revival-style mansions. The foundation that owns the mansion is beginning a fundraising campaign for $850,000 in exterior...
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Band that performed in ‘Lincoln’ included four Kentuckians
The Civil War band President Lincoln’s Own posed with Lincoln director Steven Spielberg on Nov. 19 after he spoke in Gettysburg, Pa., at ceremonies marking the 149th anniversary of Lincoln’s...
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‘Diggers’ help discover real site of Ashland’s Civil War skirmish
“Ringy” Tim Saylor, left, and “King” George Wyant, right, hosts of the National Geographic Channel show Diggers, used metal detectors to search for artifacts at Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate. Photo...
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Kentucky band from ‘Lincoln’ movie playing at Gettysburg 150th
President Lincoln’s Own Band is scheduled to perform in Gettysburg, Pa., at the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. This group visited Washington D.C. in January when it...
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Here’s the local hero a forward-looking Lexington should celebrate
What holds Lexington back? Well, for one thing, we celebrate the wrong member of the Hunt-Morgan family. That may sound trivial, but it’s not. In my work, I talk with some of Lexington’s most...
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Amid slavery, some free blacks prospered in Antebellum Lexington
Samuel Oldham, who bought his freedom and later that of his wife and children, build this house at 245 South Limestone in 1835. He owned barber shops and a spa. After years of neglect, the house was...
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Lectures show some Civil War issues still fresh as today’s headlines
Eduardo Kobra’s Lexington mural of Abraham Lincoln. Photo by Tom Eblen One great thing about living in this university city is that a lot of smart and interesting people come here to speak and you...
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Move Jefferson Davis’ statue from state Capitol to a museum
The young, white thug who sat for an hour in a prayer meeting at a South Carolina church, then pulled a gun and murdered nine black worshipers, touted his racism by posting a picture of himself online...
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If 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...
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Civil War general’s home featured on annual Bourbon County tour
Historic Paris-Bourbon County’s annual home tour Oct. 4 visits Houston Dale on Ford’s Mill Road near Paris, a circa 1840 house that was the birthplace and boyhood home of John T. Croxton, who broke...
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