Taking the Town [electronic resource] : Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880-1917 /
Morelock, Kolan Thomas,1945-
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky,
c2008.
Taking the Town: Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880--1917 explores culture and intellectual life in Lexington, Kentucky, at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing from local newspapers and from the work of historians and other writers, Kolan Thomas Morelock reveals Lexington to be a city of contradictions: known as a cultural ""Athens of the West,"" it also struggled with the poverty, ignorance, and bigotry characteristic of southern communities after the Civil War. Taking the Town examines the contributions to local culture made by the literary and dramatic clubs p
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Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Lexington in the Gilded Age; 2. ""Put Me in Class with the Widow Who Gave the Mite""; 3. Campus Prominence; 4. Community Presence; 5. ""This City's Never Dull""; 6. ""In Her Most Charming, Characteristic Way""; 7. The Dramatic Clubs Take the Stage; Epilogue: Postwar Lexington--So Long, Gilded Age; Appendixes; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Taking the Town: Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880--1917 explores culture and intellectual life in Lexington, Kentucky, at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing from local newspapers and from the work of historians and other writers, Kolan Thomas Morelock reveals Lexington to be a city of contradictions: known as a cultural ""Athens of the West,"" it also struggled with the poverty, ignorance, and bigotry characteristic of southern communities after the Civil War. Taking the Town examines the contributions to local culture made by the literary and dramatic clubs p
Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-394) and index.
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Community life
Clubs
College students
Universities and colleges