Tag: Kentucky
That flu was not Spanish, and it is still following you!
THAT FLU WAS NOT SPANISH, AND IT IS STILL FOLLOWING YOU! How can a virus be so dangerous, when it only kills a few persons per one hundred infected? 1% or 2% sounds kind of low. Kind of hopeful, unless you're the one or the two. Or if everyone you know is infected. At that [...]
A Jules Vernian Voyage To Kentucky-mini-podcast!
A Jules Vernian Voyage to Kentucky
A JULES VERNIAN VOYAGE TO KENTUCKY My mother was French. French-American as I look back on her lineage now. Good names. Good families. Just like yours. We all have had such similar backgrounds, or I wouldn't be writing, and you wouldn't be reading, this recitation. Congratulations to us all. My mother was a Charette, a [...]
The Caves, Cane and Coal of Kentucky-mini-podcast!
The Caves, Cane, and Coal of Kentucky
THE CAVES, CANE, AND COAL OF KENTUCKY "Paradise" is what the first European explorers called Kentucky. And Kentucky still fashions itself as a Commonwealth. But it was known to many people, plants, and animals long before Thomas Walker crossed the Cumberland Gap in 1750, Christopher Gist visited Lower Shawneetown in 1751, or John Findley showed [...]
Surrounding Munfordville
SURROUNDING MUNFORDVILLE Kentucky. In the center of that Common Wealth. At the crossroads. The Green River running west, and Interstate 65 north and south. You have driven passed Munfordville many times. Why didn't you stop? Confederate General Braxton Bragg and Union General Don Carlos Buell stopped there. Fought there. For there is where the Louisville [...]
Three Rivers in the Civil War
THREE RIVERS IN THE CIVIL WAR Why is it called "Civil?" It was anything but. Still isn't. And to me, no buts when it comes to the carnage. Lives torn away from homes and families. Then bodies. And, in Kentucky, armies lined up along three rivers. The Cumberland, Green, and Tennessee Rivers. When Confederate [...]