Berea and Madison County
Berea and Madison County

Author: Jacqueline Grisby Burnside

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780738544328

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After the Civil War, black families were invited to Berea by white abolitionist Rev. John G. Fee to develop an interracial school and church. From 1866 to 1904, residents' lives revolved around Berea College, which educated black and white students together from primary school through college. In 1904, the Day Law prohibited interracial education. College trustees retained white students while funding blacks to attend allblack colleges elsewhere. From 1904 to 1950, when the Day Law was amended, many residents upheld racial equality principles.

Women at Fort Boonesborough, 1775-1784
Women at Fort Boonesborough, 1775-1784

Author: Harry G. Enoch

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-09-14

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1312428279

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Fort Boonesborough is one of Kentucky's most historic places and, although seldom mentioned in popular accounts, women were there from the very beginning. This work includes 195 women whose presence at the fort can be reasonably documented by historical evidence. The time period was limited to the years between 1775, when the fort was established, and 1784, when the threat of Indian attack at Boonesborough had subsided and the fort's stockade walls had been taken down. The names of the female children these pioneer women brought to the fort are also included, as they shared the risks and hardships of frontier life. The work includes a Historical Sketch describing the women's experiences at the fort and a Biographical Section that gives a brief personal history of each woman. 174 pp., illus., indexed, paper.

The Birthday Fish
The Birthday Fish

Author: Dan Yaccarino

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005-06

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9780805074932

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Cynthia has always wanted a pony for her birthday, but when she blows out the candles on her cake this year, she gets a surprise.

Wisdom of Age
Wisdom of Age

Author: Jeff Rubin

Publisher:

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9781974287376

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Wisdom of Age is a true account of personal observations and lessons learned about life from children starting out to those who've lived it. More than a book, it's a compendium of wisdom that people age 5 to 103, have chosen to share about growing up, growing old, and the years in between. Within its pages, expect to find an open, honest, and compelling resource that anyone can turn to again and again for humor, warmth, inspiration, motivation, affirmation, and comfort. It is also a source to stimulate individual, family or group discussion on a whole range of subjects.Motivated by a desire to change perceptions, this book is also a tribute to and recognition of the insight, relevance and wisdom available to us through everybody and at any age. Your purchase, is a starting point in a movement against ageism and the right of all us, regardless of age or ability, to be treated with the dignity and respect we deserve. You can help make that happen simply by following in the footsteps of those already sharing their Wisdom of Age with others.

Hallow This Ground
Hallow This Ground

Author: Colin Rafferty

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2016-02-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0253019133

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Beginning outside the boarded-up windows of Columbine High School and ending almost twelve years later on the fields of Shiloh National Military Park, Hallow This Ground revolves around monuments and memorials—physical structures that mark the intersection of time and place. In the ways they invite us to interact with them, these sites teach us to recognize our ties to the past. Colin Rafferty explores places as familiar as his hometown of Kansas City and as alien as the concentration camps of Poland in an attempt to understand not only our common histories, but also his own past, present, and future. Rafferty blends the travel essay with the lyric, the memoir with the analytic, in this meditation on the ways personal histories intersect with History, and how those intersections affect the way we understand and interact with Place.

Stuntology
Stuntology

Author: Sam Bartlett

Publisher:

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781885387097

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A collection of cartoons that defines and studies the concept of the "stunt, " a fun but otherwise useless human activity meant to amuse, titillate or dupe others. The stunts are harmless, the illustrations whimsical, the tone cheeky and vaguely scientific.

The Bookworm and the Serpent
The Bookworm and the Serpent

Author: Stuart Tobin

Publisher:

Published: 2022-12-31

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578804415

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This small opus recounts the bitter, controversial fight to establish a public library in the semi-rural community of Madison County, Kentucky in 1987. It is dedicated to the cadre of supporters who worked tirelessly to see library services established and documents the acrid opposition that attempted to abort it's founding. While a minor incident in Kentucky history it illustrates the dynamics of polarization in America which is visited and accelerating in the political domain.

Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato
Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato

Author: Tomie dePaola

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1997-01-27

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1101653450

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A hilarious read-aloud inspired by Irish folklore that’s perfect for St. Patrick’s Day, featuring colorful artwork in Tomie dePaola’s signature style. Jamie O'Rourke is the laziest man in all of Ireland, far too lazy to help his wife on their farm. Then, after a chance encounter with a leprechaun, Jamie finds himself growing the biggest potato in the world. But what will happen when the potato grows too large for Jamie and the villagers to handle?

A History of Blacks in Kentucky: In pursuit of equality, 1890-1980
A History of Blacks in Kentucky: In pursuit of equality, 1890-1980

Author:

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780916968212

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" Published by the Kentucky Historical Society & Distributed by the University Press of Kentucky This is the second part of a two-volume study which covers the entire spectrum of the black experience in Kentucky from earliest exploration and settlement to 1980. (Click here for information on the first volume, From Slavery to Segregation, 1760-1891.) Mandated and partially funded by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1978, this pathbreaking work is the most comprehensive consideration of the subject ever undertaken. It fills a long-recognized void in Kentucky history. George C. Wright describes the struggle of blacks in the twentieth century to achieve the promise of political, social, and economic equality. From the rising tide of racism and violence at the turn of the century to the civil rights movement and school integration in later decades, Wright describes the accomplishments, frustrations, and defeats suffered by the race, concluding that even in 1980 only a few blacks had actually achieved the long-sought toal of equality.