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Blackfish

Blackfish (c. 1729–1779), known in his native tongue as Cot-ta-wa-ma-go or Mkah-day-way-may-qua, was a Native American leader, war chief of the Chillicothe division of the Shawnee tribe.

Little is known about him, since he only appears in written historical records during the last three years of his life, primarily because of his interactions with the famous American frontiersmen Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton.

When the Shawnees were defeated by Virginia in Dunmore's War in 1774 , the resulting peace treaty made the Ohio River the boundary between western Virginia (what is now Kentucky and West Virginia) and American Indian lands in the Ohio Country. Although this treaty was agreed to by Shawnee leaders such as Cornstalk, Blackfish and a number of other leaders refused to acknowledge the loss of their traditional hunting grounds in Kentucky.

Violence along the border escalated with the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in 1775. As a result, the Chillicothe Shawnees moved their town on the Scioto River further west to the Little Miami River, near what is now Xenia, Ohio. Encouraged and supplied by British officials in Detroit, Blackfish and others launched raids against American settlers in Kentucky, hoping to drive them out of the region. In revenge for the murder of Cornstalk by American militiamen in November 1777, Blackfish set out on an unexpected winter raid in Kentucky, capturing American frontiersman Daniel Boone and a number of others on the Licking River on February 7, 1778. Boone, respected by the Shawnees for his extraordinary hunting skills, was taken back to Chillicothe and adopted into the tribe. The traditional tale is that Boone was adopted by Blackfish himself, although historian John Sugden suggests that Boone was probably adopted by another family.

Boone escaped in June 1778 when he learned that Blackfish was launching a siege of the Kentucky settlement of Boonesborough, which commenced in September of that year. The siege of Boonesborough was unsuccessful, and the Kentuckians, led by Colonel John Bowman, counterattacked Chillicothe the following spring. This raid was also unsuccessful, but Blackfish was shot in the leg, a wound which became infected and was eventually fatal.
Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays

Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays is a book written by Fenton Johnson. It was first published in 2017.

## Description

Part retrospective, part memoir, Fenton Johnson’s collection Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays explores sexuality, religion, geography, the AIDS crisis, and more. Johnson’s wanderings take him from the hills of Kentucky to those of San Francisco, from the streets of Paris to the sidewalks of Calcutta. Along the way, he investigates questions large and small: What’s the relationship between artists and museums, illuminated in a New Guinean display of shrunken heads? What’s the difference between empiricism and intuition?

The collection draws together essays that originally appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, All Things Considered and elsewhere, along with new work. Johnson reports from the front lines of the AIDS epidemic, from Burning Man, from monasteries near and far. His subject matter ranges from Oscar Wilde to censorship in journalism to Kentucky basketball.
C. W. Grafton

Cornelius Warren ("Chip") Grafton (June 16, 1909 – January 1, 1982) was an American crime novelist. He was born and raised in China, where his parents were working as missionaries. He was educated in Clinton, South Carolina, studying law and journalism, and became a municipal bond attorney in Louisville, Kentucky.

The hero of his first two mystery novels (The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope and The Rope Began to Hang the Butcher) was a lawyer named Gilmore Henry. Using the first two lines of a nursery rhyme as the titles of his first two novels suggested that other Gilmore Henry novels would follow, but none did. (A partial manuscript of a third novel, The Butcher Began to Kill the Ox, is known to exist.) Henry did not appear in Grafton's two subsequent novels.

In World War II, Grafton served with distinction as a military deception officer in the India-Burma theater. Grafton was married to Vivian Harnsberger, and they had two daughters, Sue and Ann. Sue Grafton (1940-2017) was also a writer and is famous for her "Alphabet Series" of crime novels. C. W. Grafton died on January 1, 1982, at the age of 72. Only four months later, Sue published the first book of the series.

C. W. Grafton's law partner, Spencer Harper Jr., named his younger son Grafton Sharpe Harper after him.

Grafton is buried in Zachary Taylor National Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky.
Confederate Memorial in Pewee Valley

The Confederate Memorial in Pewee Valley, is on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS. It is the only cemetery for Confederate veterans, 313 in total, that is an official state burying ground in Kentucky.

It is located within the Pewee Valley Confederate Cemetery.
Casa Grande

Case Grande is a novel written by Jude Deveraux. It was first published in 1982.

## Description

SHE CAME HOME A SMALL-TOWN CELEBRITY BUT THE DREAM SHE FOUGHT FOR MADE HER A WOMAN OF THE WORLD..Determined to repay those who had sacrificed for her, Laura Taylor turned her artistic drive to a fabulous dream. From the ruins of a Spanish mission, she would build a splendidly luxurious pleasure resort frequented by the world's most glamorous people.
Cruel Music

Cruel Music is a novel written by Beverle Graves Myers. It was first published in 2006.

## Description

Tito Amato returns from an operatic tour expecting to relax with his family. Instead he finds his merchant brother Alessandro imprisoned on a trumped-up smuggling charge, a capital crime in 1740 Venice. The senator who controls Alessandro's fate is determined to have a Venetian as the next pope. He forces Tito to Rome to sing at the villa of a powerful, music-loving cardinal who will control the coming papal election. Spying as he serenades Cardinal Fabiani and his guests, Tito peers into the dark mirror of Roman politics. Pope Clement XII is sinking fast, and two candidates emerge as leading contenders for St. Peter's throne. Will Fabiani support the highborn Venetian whose secret passion is tinkering with electrical experiments? Or the humble cardinal with the gift of healing and a mysterious past?The discovery of a beautiful corpse in Fabiani's garden complicates Tito's mission. Fabiani believes that a member of his household killed the young maid in a fit of madness, but Tito follows clues that indicate a more complex motive, assisted by his irrepressible manservant Benito and Englishman Gussie Rumbolt. From the heights of the Janiculum Hill to the muddy waters of the Tiber, from a cozy Trastevere cookshop to the chilly corridors of the Quirinal Palace, the trio wrestles with events that could change the course of history. Can Tito stop the killer and affect the election before Pope Clement takes his last breath? Or will Alessandro face the scaffold?
Chad Cromwell

Chad Cromwell (born June 14, 1957) is an American rock drummer whose music career has spanned more than 30 years. He is possibly best known for his work with Neil Young, Mark Knopfler and Joe Walsh. He is the founding member of a band called Fortunate Sons, which released a self-titled album in 2004. He has worked with multiple prominent artists from various genres such as Joss Stone, Bonnie Raitt, and Crosby, Stills, and Nash.

Cromwell was born on June 14, 1957, in Paducah, Kentucky. When he was three years old he moved with his parents and siblings to Memphis, Tennessee in 1960. In 1970, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and remained there for the rest of his childhood.

He started playing drums at the age of eight, wearing headphones as he played along to records in an upstairs room of his parents' home. By the age of twelve he was playing in garage bands in the local neighborhood.

Cromwell started recording and touring with Joe Walsh in 1986, appearing on two albums, Got Any Gum? and Ordinary Average Guy.

In 1987, Cromwell began a collaboration with songwriter Neil Young. The initial sessions became Neil Young & The Bluenotes. Since then he has recorded and toured with Young on several occasions, and appears on albums such as Freedom (1989), Prairie Wind (2005) Living with War (2006) and Chrome Dreams II (2007). He has also appeared in Heart of Gold, a documentary capturing the debut of Neil Young's album, Prairie Wind (along with other Young classics). This was filmed at the Ryman auditorium and directed by Jonathan Demme.

Cromwell is also known for his contributions to Mark Knopfler's solo albums Golden Heart (1996), Sailing to Philadelphia (2000), The Ragpicker's Dream (2002) and Shangri-La (2004). He was also part of Knopfler's band during the tours of his first solo albums.

Cromwell toured with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the summer of 2006.

He has also worked with many other artists including Dave Stewart, Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Lady Antebellum, Diana Krall, Willie Nelson, Jackson Browne, Boz Scaggs, Wynonna, Trisha Yearwood, Miranda Lambert, Bonnie Raitt, Peter Frampton, Allison Moorer, Chris Knight, Joss Stone, Rodney Crowell, Marty Stuart, and Stevie Nicks.

In the mid 2000s, Cromwell formed the band Fortunate Sons along with Michael Rhodes, Gary Nicholson, Kenny Greenberg, and Reese Wynans. They released a self-titled album in 2004. He is also a member of the occasional touring band, Big Al Anderson and The Balls, led by former NRBQ guitarist Al Anderson.

In 2012, he appeared on The Beach Boys' studio album entitled That's Why God Made the Radio. In 2013, he was featured on Bonnie Tyler's album, Rocks and Honey.

In 2014, he provided drums on Drake Bell's third studio album, Ready Steady Go!

He currently lives in both Nashville and Los Angeles with his wife, Windy.
Charles Hermany

Charles Hermany (October 9, 1830 – January 18, 1908) was an engineer and architect. He assisted Theodore Scowden in designing the Louisville Water Works buildings. He designed the Crescent Hill Water Plant. Hermany was the chief engineer and superintendent of the Louisville Water Company for more than 25 years and designed water systems for Bowling Green, Kentucky and Frankfort, Kentucky. His map of a park system for the Salmagundi Club is said to have inspired Frederick Law Olmsted's work.

Hermany was also involved in the design of the River Pumping Station for the Cincinnati Water Works. He is buried at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville. His son, Charles Scowden Hermany, lived from 1872 to 1903 and was also buried at Cave Hill Cemetery.

In 2009 the Louisville Water Company (LWC) celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Crescent Hill Filtration Plant. Their website notes: "the opening in 1909 culminated Chief Engineer Charles Hermany's quest for pure water. It marked 30 years of research that included building the Crescent Hill Reservoir and a landmark experiment to develop a purification process for drinking water." Hermany worked with George Warren Fuller to complete the project.

The designs have even been said to have influenced Frederick Law Olmsted who visited in 1891. A University of Kentucky student compared Hermany's work with that of Marcus Agrippa's in Imperial Rome.
Catherine Dale Owen

Catherine Dale Owen (July 28, 1900 – September 7, 1965) was an American stage and film actress.

Dale was born July 28, 1900 in Louisville, Kentucky to a prominent Kentucky family. She attended private school in Philadelphia and Bronxville, New York before attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.

First discovered by Laura MacGillivray, the wife of Actors Equity president Frank Gillmore, Owen appeared on Broadway in the 1920s through early 1930s in productions including The Mountain Man, The Whole Town's Talking, Trelawny of the Wells, The Love City and The Play's the Thing. In 1925, Owen was acclaimed as one of the ten most beautiful women in the world.

Owen made her film debut as Princess Orsolini opposite John Gilbert's Captain Kovacs in the 1929 film His Glorious Night. It was to Owen that Gilbert spoke the lines, "Oh beauteous maiden, my arms are waiting to enfold you. I love you. I love you. I love you." The scene, which proved disastrous for Gilbert's career, was later parodied in the 1952 film Singin' in the Rain.

In 1930, Owen starred in Lawrence Tibbett's film debut, The Rogue Song and also with Edmund Lowe in Born Reckless. Owen appeared in her final film, Defenders of the Law in 1931. She retired from acting in 1935.

Owen married Milton F. Davis, Jr., son of Brigadier General Milton F. Davis in 1934. The marriage ended in divorce March 1937. On June 5, 1937, Owen married advertising executive Homer P. Metzger in New York City. The couple had one son, Robert Owen Metzger, born in October 1939.

Owen's likeness was drawn in caricature by Alex Gard for Sardi's, the New York City theater district restaurant. The picture is now part of the collection of the New York Public Library.

On September 3, 1965, Owen suffered a stroke at her New York City home. She was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital where she slipped into a coma. She died there on September 7 at the age of 65. She is buried in the Old Tennent Cemetery in Manalapan Township, New Jersey.
Charles Chilton Moore

Charles Chilton Moore, Jr. (December 20, 1837 - February 7, 1906) was the grandson of Barton W. Stone. At one time he was a faithful gospel preacher. He preached for the Church of Christ at Versailles, Kentucky. After much trouble over the teachings of the Bible, he declared to the elders that he had become and infidel, and left the church. Among other issues, he reasoned that a study of geology showed the world to be much older that Usher's dating the age of the earth at 4000 B.C. This among other issues continued to move him further and further away from trusting in the God of the Bible. Over the course of the next few years he became a deist, then later an agnostic, then ultimately an atheist.

Moore was the editor of one of the nation's first journals promoting atheism, Blue Grass Blade. He received great rejections from theists and creationists. He spent numerous occasions in prison because of his outspoken attacks on the Bible and theology. His autobiography, Behind The Bars, was written while in prison for free-love articles appearing in his paper. In 1900, in the case of United States v. Moore, the District Court D., Kentucky, ruled that a publication to be prohibited from the mail system, it must be lewd and lascivious as well as obscene, and that it could not be banned because it offends the religious sentiments of the majority of the people by attacking the doctrine of the immaculate conception of Christ, even though worded in coarse or obscene language. The court went on to say that a publication must have a tendency to induce sexual immorality. Moore was one of the last men in America to be sent to prison for blasphemy. However, he was pardoned by President William McKinley.
Cecile Arnold

Cecile Arnold (April 1891 - 1931) was a silent film actress and Ziegreld Follies girl.

She was born in Louisville, Kentucky in April of 1891.

Born Cecile Laval Arnoux, the blonde known for playing femme fatales was a Ziegfeld Follies girl before moving to Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios in 1913. She appeared in at least fifty films with notables such as Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Mack Swain and Charlie Chaplin's half brother Syd.

She ended her film career in 1917 to marry a banker and relocated to the Orient where she died in Hong Kong of a particularly virulent strain of influenza in 1931.
Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hopkinsville

The Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hopkinsville, Kentucky is a monument placed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was dedicated in October 1911.

During the war, Nathan Bedford Forrest made his winter headquarters at Hopkinsville in 1861–1862. On December 12, 1864, Confederate General Hylan B. Lyon burned the county courthouse at Hopkinsville, but the records survived.

The memorial fountain, eight feet tall and made of white marble, was built after the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy spent five years raising the funds to erect it. It was initially located at the corner of 9th Street and Main Street, but was later moved to the front of the Christian County Courthouse. It was built as a public drinking fountain, but the mechanism no longer works.

On July 17, 1997, the Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hopkinsville was one of sixty different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. Three other monuments on this Multiple Property Submission were also fountains: two of these are the Confederate Monument of Cadiz and the Confederate Memorial in Mayfield. Fourteen other monuments were built due to the efforts of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The Latham Confederate Monument is also in Hopkinsville; it is located at Riverside Cemetery to the north side of town.
Charles Dougherty

Charles Douglas "Pat" Dougherty (October 26, 1879 - July 12, 1939) was a Negro Leagues pitcher for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League.

Dougherty was born October 26, 1879 in Summer Shade, Metcalfe County, Kentucky. He played for the Leland Giants, Chicago American Giants and Club Fé from the years 1909 - 1915.

Sportswriter and fellow player Jimmy Smith put Dougherty on his 1909 "All American Team."

Dougherty died on July 12, 1939, at the age of 59 in Chicago, Illinois. He is buried at Lincoln Cemetery at Blue Island, Illinois.
Bob Clark

Robert H. Clark (March 18, 1863 – August 21, 1919) was born in Covington, Kentucky on March 18, 1863. He was a 19th-century Major League Baseball catcher. He played from 1886 to 1893 for the Brooklyn Grays/Bridegrooms, Cincinnati Reds and Louisville Colonels. He appeared in the post-season World Series with Brooklyn twice, in 1889 and 1890.

Clark died of burns inflicted by an accidental fire in Covington, Kentucky. He was buried in Saint Marys Cemetery in Fort Mitchell, Kenton County.
Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset

The Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset in Pulaski County, Kentucky, near Nancy, Kentucky, honors the Confederate soldiers who are buried here who died at the Battle of Mill Springs. These soldiers were from Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, and number over one hundred in total.

The monument was built in 1910 by Bennett H. Young, who during the war rode with Confederate general John Hunt Morgan. Young was drawn to the area due to hearing about the nearby Zollie Tree, which was decorated by a local woman each Memorial Day in honor of general Felix K. Zollicoffer, who died at the Battle of Mill Springs. The monument uses the name "Battle of Fishing Creek", as the battle was known by Southerners in 1910. The rectangular slab of limestone is 4 feet by 3 feet, and rest on a 1 foot high slab of concrete.

The Zollie Tree, for which both the Confederate Mass Grave Monument and the nearby General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument was constructed, was destroyed by lightning in 1995, although a sapling from it was later planted at the same spot. Both are now in what is called Zollicoffer Park, part of the larger Mill Springs Battlefield.

On July 17, 1997, the Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset was one of sixty-one different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. The aforementioned General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument only a few feet away is another of the so-honored monuments. The other monument on the list in Pulaski County is the Battle of Dutton's Hill Monument north of Somerset, Kentucky.
Beriah Magoffin Monument

The Beriah Magoffin Monument, in Spring Hill Cemetery of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, commemorates Beriah Magoffin, who was governor of Kentucky when the Civil War started. Although sympathetic to secession, he sought to retain neutrality for Kentucky for the conflict, until pro-Union forces compelled him to resign from the governorship.

The Beriah Magoffin Monument was dedicated around 1900, many years after Magoffin's 1885 death. Its cast zinc and tribute to the "Lost Cause" is typical of monuments to the War built around 1900. However, atypically of such monuments, Magoffin's portrait bust draped in a toga recalls Neoclassical conventions, as in Houdon's sculptural portrait of George Washington; this parallel with a heroic Roman was intended by the builder of the Beriah Magoffin Monument.

Two quotes of Magoffin's were inscribed to reflect his position on Kentucky's role in the conflict:

*"What attitude shall Kentucky occupy in the deplorable conflict looking to the constitution of the United States, the nature of our institutions and the causes of the war, I think Kentucky has a right to assume a neutral position."*

*"While opposed to the policy of the government and the measures used to preserve the constitution, we would not exchange the government of our fathers for any experiment on earth."*

Spring Hill Cemetery, where the monument lies, was established in 1860.

On July 17, 1997, the Beriah Magoffin Monument was one of sixty different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. It is one of nine monuments in the MPS that is a tombstone. The Confederate Monument in Harrodsburg, also part of the same MPS, is within the same cemetery.
Confederate Monument in Harrodsburg

The Confederate Monument in Harrodsburg, located at the entrance to Spring Hill Cemetery in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, is a statue listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It depicts a life-sized older Confederate cavalryman standing ready.

The monument depicts Captain Gabe S. Alexander, who served in John Hunt Morgan's 2nd Kentucky Cavalry. The pedestal has an engraved Southern Cross of Saint Andrew, commonly called the Confederate battle flag, on its front. Below the cross lies the dedication plaque, and below that an engraved wreath encircling a sword and scabbard. On the rear is an engrave Third Confederate Flag in the midst of cannonballs and battle smoke. Also on the rear is a verse from the *Bivouac of the Dead*, written by Kentuckian Theodore O'Hara, which six other monuments in Kentucky also have a verse from. When dedicated in 1902 by the United Confederate Veterans, speeches were made in favor of the Confederate cause and condemning revisionist history that defamed the Southern experience in the Civil War.

The verse from The Bivouac of the Dead is:

*To fight in a just cause and for our country's glory is the best office of the best men.*

Harrodsburg once saw Morgan's forces enter the town during the war. Instead of conflict, the town's ladies laid out a gigantic picnic on their lawns for the men, who had just raided through Glasgow, Lebanon, and Springfield. The only other action Harrodsburg saw during the War was when Braxton Bragg had his men withdraw from the Battle of Perryville through the town.

Harrodsburg was also home of the 19th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. An infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

On July 17, 1997, the Confederate Monument in Harrodsburg was one of sixty different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. Harrodsburg's is one of 23 that were statues, of which eight were erected in cemeteries. The Beriah Magoffin Monument, within Spring Hill Cemetery as well, is also part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS.
Carl Goose

Carl Seay Goose (April 1893 - October 15, 1915) was born in Louisville, Kentucky in April of 1893. He was a jockey and horse trainer.

He died in a racing accident without having a riding helmet which most jockeys didn't at that time. His death served to motivate his brother, Roscoe Goose, to champion the cause of getting all jockeys to wear helmets, then for those helmets to become a part of the normal equipment worn as a standard requirement for racing. Roscoe also saw that necessary improvements were made for safety standards to increase the quality of the helmets too. Carl first rode at Churchill in spring of 1910, and his last meet was fall of 1915. Carl's fatal accident was at Latonia Race Course.

He was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky.
Chilton Allan

Chilton Allan (April 6, 1786 – September 3, 1858) was a United States Representative from Kentucky. He was born in Albemarle County, Virginia before moving with his mother to Winchester, Kentucky in 1797. He attended the common schools, and also received private instructions. After this, he served an apprenticeship of three years as a wheelwright, studying law in his leisure time. He was admitted to the bar in 1808 and commenced practice in Winchester, Kentucky.

Allan was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1811, 1815, 1822, and 1830 and a member of the Kentucky Senate 1823–1827. He was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses and reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1837). In Congress, he served as chairman, Committee on Territories (Twenty-third Congress) but was not a candidate for renomination in 1836.

After leaving Congress, he was appointed president of the Kentucky board of internal improvements in 1837 and served until 1839, when he resigned. He resumed the practice of law and was again a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1842. He died in Winchester, Kentucky in 1858 and was buried in Winchester Cemetery.
Fenton Johnson

John Fenton Johnson (born October 25, 1953) is an American writer and professor of English and LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona. He was born ninth of nine children into a Kentucky whiskey-making family with a strong storytelling tradition.

In February 2016, University Press of Kentucky marked Fenton Johnson's place in the literature of the state, region, and nation by publishing a new novel,The Man Who Loved Birds, at the same time that it reissues his earlier novels Crossing the River and Scissors, Paper, Rock. Johnson is also the author of three cover essays in Harper's Magazine, most recently (April, 2015) Going It Alone: The Dignity and Challenge of Solitude, available for reading through his webpage. Links to his media appearances, on Terry Gross's Fresh Air and on Kentucky Educational Television, may be found on his webpage.

His most recent nonfiction book Keeping Faith: A Skeptic's Journey draws on time spent living as a member of the monastic communities of the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky and the San Francisco Zen Center as a means to examining what it means to a skeptic to have and keep faith. Keeping Faith weaves frank conversations with Trappist and Buddhist monks with a history of the contemplative life and meditations from Johnson's experience of the virtue we call faith. It received the 2004 Kentucky Literary Award for Nonfiction and the 2004 Lambda Literary Award for best GLBT creative nonfiction.

Johnson is also the author of Geography of the Heart: A Memoir(1996) which received a Lambda Literary Award and the American Library Association Award for best gay/lesbian nonfiction.

Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays, a compilation of Johnson's new and selected essays, will be published in 2017. He is currently at work on At the Center of All Beauty: The Dignity and Challenge of Solitude, a book-length meditation based on his 2016 cover essay in Harper's Magazine.

He has received awards from the Wallace Stegner and James Michener Fellowships in Fiction and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in both fiction and creative nonfiction. He has also received a Kentucky Literary Award, two Lambda Literary Awards for best creative nonfiction, as well as the American Library Association's Stonewall Book Award for best gay/lesbian nonfiction. He received a 2007 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation to support completion of his third novel and to begin research and writing on a nonfiction project.
Carlos G. Stratton

Carlos Gordon Stratton (April 4, 1900 - September 16, 1967) was an attorney, humanitarian, and author.

He was born on April 4, 1900, in Louisville, Kentucky, the only child of a pair of Hoosiers. His father, Don Carlos Stratton, was born in June 1869 when the memory of the Civil War was still fresh. It's likely that Don C. Stratton was named for the Union general, Don Carlos Buell, who lived in Indiana before the beginning of the war. Carlos Gordon Stratton, then, was named for his father and his mother, and perhaps indirectly for a Civil War hero.

The Stratton family moved from Kentucky to Colorado sometime between 1900 and 1910, when the census taker found them in Las Animas. By 1920, they were in Denver. Carlos Stratton served as a private in the Student Army Training Corps (S.A.T.C.) in Denver during World War I. He went on to graduate from the University of Denver in 1922 and the Denver Law School in 1925.

Stratton practiced patent law in Denver and wrote for Dicta, a journal of the Denver Bar Association. According to a family member, Stratton met with great success as a lawyer in Denver and retired to Mexico to take up writing. One result may have been his lone story for Weird Tales, "A Pair of Mummies," from March 1925.

By 1930, Stratton was back in Denver, but only for a while. Family troubles and his disillusionment with the city sent him packing to southern California in 1934. There Stratton built a new career and a large estate. Stratton Lane in San Marino, California, is named for him. Stratton served for a time as acting consul of The Netherlands for Colorado and New Mexico. He was also very involved in the Rotary Club, the Republican Party, the Presbyterian Church, and various professional groups. Carlos Gordon Stratton died on September 16, 1967, in Los Angeles.
Blue-grass and Rhodedendron: Outdoors in Old Kentucky

Bluegrass and Rhododendron: Outdoors in Old Kentucky is a collection of true stories written by John Fox, Jr.. It was first published in 1901.

## Description

This is a collection of true stories about life in central Kentucky (the Bluegrass area) and the mountains of eastern Kentucky and Virginia. Mr. Fox was a prolific writer in the late 1800's and early 1900s. He chronicles his experiences fox hunting, fishing, raccoon hunting as well as being a member of a civilian police guard in eastern Kentucky that helped stem the tide of feuding and violence that threatened the local populace. The stories are a wonderful snapshot of an era and time long gone.

## Contents

* The Southern Mountaineer
* The Kentucky Mountaineer
* Down the Kentucky on a Raft
* After Brer Rabbit in the Bluegrass
* Through the Bad Bend
* Fox Hunting in Kentucky
* To the Breaks of Sandy
* Brer Coon in Old Kentucky
* Civilizing the Cumberland
* Man Hunting in the Pound
* The Red Fox of the Mountains
* The Hanging of Talton Hall
Burks' Distillery

The Burks' Distillery was build by George R. Burks in 1889. It is located near Loretto, Marion County. It still produces Maker's Mark bourbon.

On October 1, 1953 T. William "Bill" Samuels purchased the Burks' Distillery for $35,000 and production of Maker's Mark began in 1954.

It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places December 31, 1974. It was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark on December 16, 1980. It was the first distillery in America to be recognized while the landmark buildings were still in production.

The distillery offers tours and is a part of the American Whiskey Trail and the Kentucky Bourbon Trail.
Billy C. Clark Bibliography

## Novels

* 1957 – Song of the River
* 1957 – The Mooneyed Hound
* 1958 – Riverboy
* 1961 – Useless Dog
* 1964 – Goodbye Kate
* 1966 – The Champion of Sourwood Mountain

## Non-Fiction

* 1960 – A Long Row to Hoe: The Life of a Kentucky Riverboy

## Short Story Collections

* 1954 – A Heap of Hills
* 1968 – Sourwood Tales
* 2000 – By Way of the Forked Stick
* 2003 – Miss America Kissed Caleb: Stories

## Poetry Collections

* 1999 – To Leave My Heart at Catlettsburg
* 2007 – To Catch an Autumn
* 2009 – Sonnets from Sourwood

## Short Stories

* 1954 – A Heap O' Love
* 1954 – Pride O' the Jug
* 1954 – Stubtoe the Champion
* 1954 – Fur in the Hickory
* 1964 – Trail of the Hunter's Horn
* 1968 – The Illiterate Spider
* 1968 – Gift of the Rivers
* 1968 – The Naming of Mr. Creighton
* 1968 – The Tale of Scrapiron Jack
* 1968 – Clinton Takes a Drink
* 1968 – The Heart of a Woodsman
* 1968 – The Death of Aunt Lottie
* 1968 – Hospitality
* 1968 – The Used-to-Be Dog
* 1968 – Froggie Goes A-Courtin'
* 1968 – The Fiddle and the Fruit Jar
* 1968 – Lucy Caught the Moon
* 1968 – Ely's Bass
* 1968 – The Culture of a Hounddog
* 1968 – A Sack Full of Faith
* 1968 – Of Greed and Eb Ringtom
* 2003 – Miss America Kissed Caleb
* 2003 – The Ring
* 2003 – Fourth of July
* 2003 – A Pair of Shoes
* 2003 – The Jimson Dog
* 2003 – On Joe Carter's Mule
* 2003 – The Cornstalk Fiddle
* 2003 – Girty
* 2003 – To Plant a Windsong
* 2003 – Love and a Can of Worms (An Appalachian Love Story)
* 2003 – Reliefing It
Confederate Memorial Gates in Mayfield

The Confederate Memorial Gates in Mayfield are historical monuments at the entrances to Maplewood Cemetery in Mayfield, Kentucky. The monuments were the second monument in Mayfield established by the United Daughters of the Confederacy; the first being the Confederate Memorial in Mayfield in downtown Mayfield. The gates were the third choice for monuments, chosen mostly due to their relatively low cost. The UDC intended them to not only be a monument to the residents of Graves County who served the Confederate States of America, but also a civic improvement.

The monuments are three pairs of stuccoed poured concrete gateposts, six in total, each. When closed. the main pair's gates read "The United Daughters of the Confederacy Memorial". The main pair have bronze plaques. The main pair of gateposts are each two feet wide and ten feet tall, with 27 feet between them. The center pair has no road between them; they are three feet wide, ten feet tall, and 285 feet away from the main gates. The third set are 330 feet away from the center gates, two feet wide and ten feet tall.

On July 17, 1997, the posts and gates were one of sixty-one different monuments to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. One other monument on the list, the Confederate Memorial in Mayfield, is nearby in downtown Mayfield; the only other one in Graves County is the Camp Beauregard Memorial in Water Valley. In Maplewood Cemetery are the Wooldridge Monuments, also on the National Register. The only other gateway on the list is the Confederate Memorial Gateway in Hickman.
Belonging (Walker)

Belonging is a novel written by Shiloh Walker. It was first published in 2009.

## Description

Being a vampire can suck. Corinne Lewis will be the first to testify to that. She went through the "change" but it certainly didn't change her all that much.

Still shy, quiet and a wallflower, she doesn't fit in with the rest of the vampires or other paranormal creatures at Excelsior, the school that trains the elite Hunters. She lives there now, working for the people who took her in after the vampire attack that changed her and left her too afraid to cope with undead life - and everything else.

Of course... there are some changes, and they are awkward. She never really liked sex, always thought she might be frigid, but now she needs it. A lot. One night, unable to go to the men at Excelsior, she goes in search of a one-night stand and finds herself facing a blast from the past.

But once he discovers who she is, can he forgive her?

And can she let him go?
Cops and Cowboys

Cops and Cowboys is a novel written by Shiloh Walker and Lora Leigh. It was first published in 2005.

## Description

HER WILDEST DREAMS:

Timid and shy, in her wildest dreams, Allie never imagined Alex would look at her with anything more than friendship and maybe a little pity in his eyes. As if living a nightmare, one horrible night Allie is attacked, and Alex comes rushing to her rescue. He wonders if he is really needed when he finds a little hellcat fighting off her attacker. Much later that night, Alex holds that little hellcat in his arms. Months later, he runs into Allie again, and he barely recognizes her. She's no longer the shy little wallflower she had once been. Problem isÂ...she doesn't seem to want to have anything to do with him. Allie's about to find out that he's the only man guaranteed to make her wildest dreams come true.

THE COWBOY AND THE CAPTIVE:

Melina had lived her life in her older, selfish twin's shadow until the final deceit forced her to refocus on her own life. But the past has not been forgotten by Luc Jardin. Now, kidnapped and at the mercy of a man with a grudge, Melina must learn to accept the past as well as her attraction to the arrogant rancher. Just as Luc must learn to accept that, sometimes, things are not always as they seem
Chenoweth Massacre

The Chenoweth Massacre of July 17, 1789 was the last major Native American raid in present-day Jefferson County, Kentucky (Louisville Metro).

Captain Richard Chenoweth, builder of Fort Nelson, was stationed with his family northeast of present-day Middletown when a large band of Native Americans (likely Shawnee) attacked from across the Ohio River. They killed three of Chenoweth's children and two of the soldiers. Chenoweth's wife, Peggy was pierced through the lungs by an arrow and seriously wounded. She faked death while an attacker took her scalp. She survived and wore a hat for the rest of her life to conceal the scars. Two soldiers were captured alive and were ritually burned at the stake near the springhouse.

Chenoweth Station was likely targeted in the raid because it was relatively isolated from the nearest settlements of Linn's Station and the Falls of the Ohio. What is now called the Chenoweth Fort-Springhouse, where Chenoweth and his wife took refuge, has been preserved and is listed on the National Register of Historical Places.
Ben and Shadoe

Ben and Shadoe is a novel written by Shiloh Walker. It was first published in 2005.

## Description

A skilled warrior and a Hunter with unique abilities, Benjamin Cross has spent years on a personal quest. Decades after a betrayal tore his pack apart, he has finally found the missing child who disappeared all those years ago. But now that he has found her, she's not exactly what he'd expected.

Unaware of her heritage, hiding from her own painful past, Shadoe doesn't know what to make of the man who calls himself Benjamin. She doesn't know what to make of the voices in her head, the images in her mind... the one thing she is sure of... she thinks she's going crazy.

When danger arrives at her doorstep, she'll have to turn to him to keep her safe, to teach her how to use the wild power breaking free inside her. And to love her...
Claude Sullivan

Claude Howard Sullivan (December 29, 1924 – December 6, 1967) was an American sports broadcaster. Born in Winchester, Kentucky, he did the play-by-play broadcasts of the University of Kentucky football and basketball games for nearly 20 years. He was associated with Lexington radio station WVLK, and was appointed director of programming by the station in addition to his sports broadcasting duties.

In 1964, he was hired to work alongside of Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Waite Hoyt as broadcaster of the Cincinnati Reds' Major League Baseball games. When Hoyt retired in 1965, Sullivan took over the primary play-by-play responsibilities. But after two years, Sullivan was diagnosed with throat cancer, and he died on December 6, 1967, at the age of 42. He was buried in Winchester Cemetery in Winchester, Clark County.
Denver Grigsby

Denver Clarence Grigsby (March 25, 1901 – November 10, 1973) was born March 25, 1901 in Jackson, Kentucky. He was an outfielder in Major League Baseball. He played for the Chicago Cubs. For his career, he batted .289 with 3 home runs and 73 RBI.

Grigsby died November 10, 1973 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma at the age of 72.
Beverle Graves Myers Bibliography

## Novels

* 2004 – Interrupted Aria
* 2005 – Painted Veil
* 2006 – Cruel Music
* 2008 – The Iron Tongue of Midnight
* 2009 – Her Deadly Mischief
* 2012 – Face of the Enemy with Joanne Dobson
* 2014 – Whispers of Vivaldi

## Short Stories

* 2001 – A Baroque Phantom
* 2002 – Head Case
* 2002 – A Minor Break-In
* 2003 – Foul Ball
* 2003 – Revenge of the Snake Woman
* 2003 – Force of Habit
* 2004 – A Foolproof Scheme
* 2004 – Sweet Smell of Success
* 2004 – Dead Heat with a Pale Horse & Walking Around Money
* 2004 – Mirror, Mirror
* 2004 – The Franklin Fiasco
* 2004 – Windows to the Soul
* 2005 – The Mozart Muddle
* 2006 – The Casanova Caper
* 2006 – The True Story of the Whirlaway Café
* 2006 – Haven City
* 2007 – Brimstone P.I.
* 2007 – The Bookworm's Demise
* 2009 – A Cutting Wind
* 2009 – A Good Cuppa Joe with Joanne Dobson
Confederate-Union Veterans' Monument in Morgantown

The Confederate-Union Veterans' Monument in front of the Butler County Courthouse in Morgantown, Kentucky, was built in the aftermath the Spanish–American War, which helped alleviate the bitterness both sides felt toward the other when it was dedicated to the sacrifice of veterans of both sides of the Civil War. It is one of only two monuments in Kentucky that reveres both sides, instead of only one, and funds to build it came from both sides. Butler County had mixed loyalties in the War, with both sides well supported by the county.

The monument was dedicated on May 30, 1907. It has a life-sized zinc statue of a Union soldier with kepi hat, winter great coat, and rifle. It stands atop a twelve-foot pedestal, making the entire monument eighteen feet in height. Depictions of Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, and Joseph Wheeler are placed on three sides of the pedestal. On the various sides of the pedestal are the names of several citizens of Butler County who fought on both sides, some of which died during the War and some that were still living when the monument was built in 1907. As a reflection of the joint effort made to build the statue, the monument refers to the conflict as the "War of 1861-5".

Other than two skirmishes outside of town, Morgantown/Butler County saw very little action during the war, although the first of these skirmishes, fought in October 1861, claimed the first county resident killed in the war, Granville Allen.

On July 17, 1997, the Confederate-Union Veterans' Monument was one of sixty different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. It is one of ten soldier monuments in the MPS that was placed on a courthouse lawn, out of 23 soldier monuments in total.
Ed Kennedy

William Edward Kennedy (April 5, 1861 – December 22, 1912) was born in Bellevue, Kentucky on April 5, 1861. He was a 19th-century baseball third baseman for the Cincinnati Outlaw Reds of the Union Association in 1884. He appeared in 13 games for the Reds and hit .208.

Kennedy died in Cheyenne, Wyoming December 22, 1912.
Edmon Ryan

Edmon Ryan (June 5, 1905 — August 4, 1984) was an American theatre, film and television actor.

Edmon Ryan Mossbarger was born June 5, 1905 in Cecelia, Hardin County. He was the son of Isham Edward Mossbarger (1864–1936) and Pearl Shelton Mossbarger (1882–1976).

He had over 90 television and film credits and had 10 stage acting credits.

He died in Louisville August 4, 1984 and was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery.
Cupid Does Eat Chocolate Covered Snails

Cupid Does Eat Chocolate Covered Snails is a novel written by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones. It was first published in 2007.

## Description

The Bailey School Kids are back in second grade, but Bailey City is filled with the same kinds of mysterious teachers and grown-ups. Eddie, Liza, Melody, and Howie go bowling on Valentine's Day and meet a strange fellow who eats chocolate-covered snails and sticks heart stickers on unsuspecting bowlers. Hilarious antics are the result. Is he just a regular guy who works at the bowling lanes or is he Cupid?
Deeper than Need

Deeper than Need is a novel written by Shiloh Walker. It was first published in 2014.

## Description

Time heals all wounds.

Eager to put a dark, troubled past behind her, Trinity Ewing buys an old house that will make the perfect refuge for her and her young son once renovations are complete. The last thing on her mind is finding someone new...but the contractor she's hired is an irresistible distraction--and Trinity can't help but fantasize about all the business they could be doing behind closed doors.

So does one man's touch.

Noah Benningfield thought he'd put his demons behind him. But the moment he lays eyes on Trinity, the temptation he feels is too powerful to deny. Soon the attraction between them explodes into something neither of them could have imagined. But their desire will be put to the test when a shocking local murder has them dodging danger at every turn. Can the beautiful and damaged Trinity trust someone like Noah, whose own past is as haunted as her own? The only thing she knows for sure is that she can't live without a man who makes her feel this good--over and over again...in Deeper Than Need by Shiloh Walker.
Discovery at Coyote Point

Discovery at Coyote Point is a short children's novel written by Ann H. Gabhart. It was first published in 1991.

## Description

Being left Fatherless was hard enough for 12-year-old Ance Sanford, but being sent off to live in the mountains with his father's parents seemed impossible. How could a city boy like Ance survive in the middle of nowhere with two old people he hadn't seen since his father disappeared six years earlier? But at Coyote Point, a lovely cliff overlooking the river where his father was last seen, Ance discovers much about the great wilderness and those who live there--including some things he never knew about his own family...and about himself.