© 2020 Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. By Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. (1) (Office of General Counsel, Kentucky Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, ca. 1980). (2) How does one begin a study of environmental history? Even that phrase is a little bit squirrely. Is it the human upon which we [...]
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A KENTUCKIAN, TWO FRANCISCANS, THE MORMON MIGRATION, JOHN WESLEY POWELL, THE HOPI TRIBE, THE NAVAJO NATION, AND ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON-mini-podcast!
Ciarra sings “Every Little Day”
Ciarra sings " Every Little Day," an original song by Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. played at The Harvest Coffee and Cafe in Downtown Shelbyville, Kentucky on August 11, 2016. Mike williams on bass, Steve Eilers on snare, Kim Ritchey on lead guitar, Reggie Van Stockum on rhythm guitar and Ciarra Grigsby on vocals. https://vimeo.com/178612513
That flu was not Spanish, and it’s still following you! mini-podcast
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 [...]