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Joey Kern

Joseph Daniel "Joey" Kern (born September 5, 1976) is an American actor and director. He is most widely known for his roles in the 2003 films Cabin Fever and Grind.

Kern was born in Kentucky and was raised in northern Kentucky in the towns of Florence and Independence. In 1995, he graduated from St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, and subsequently studied at New York University, earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in drama. While at NYU he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. He started acting on stage with various companies such as Atlantic Theater Company, New Group Theater and Theatre for a New Audience, where he played the title role of Troilus in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida directed by Sir Peter Hall.

His feature film debut came in 1999 with the film Die Jungfrau (The Virgin), an Austrian film shot in Austria, Greece and Egypt that cast Kern out of New York City. He had a guest appearance on the HBO series Sex and the City followed by a role in the Broken Lizards 2001 movie Super Troopers as one of the stoners. He had a few more roles in some indie films but his career picked up a little in 2002 with the movie Cabin Fever and then in 2003 when Grind was released. At one point, he had 5 movies in post-production, including The Sasquatch Gang (released in 2007), All the Days Before Tomorrow, and One Part Sugar.

In 2007, Kern co-hosted a week of Attack of the Show on G4. In 2010, he appeared in the TV movie, Playing with Guns, alongside Danny Masterson.

In 2016, Kern was cast in a recurring role on TNT's new drama series Good Behavior, starring Michelle Dockery, which ran two seasons. In 2017, Kern wrote, directed, and starred in Big Bear, which is based on his broken engagement to actress Ginnifer Goodwin.

He began dating Ginnifer Goodwin in April 2009. The couple announced their engagement December 24, 2010. They announced their break-up on May 20, 2011. In 2014, Kern married Gillian Rose. The two have a daughter name Lily Lou Kern.
James Reily

James Reily (July 3, 1811 - April 14, 1863) was a politician and soldier.

He served as a Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War, and as a Major in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence.

Reilly went on to serve as a Member of the Texas Republic House of Representatives from 1840 to 1841, Texas Republic Minister to the United States from 1841 to 1842, and Member of the Texas State House of Representatives from 1853 to 1854.

He died April 14, 1863 and was buried in Lexington Cemetery.
Jared Champion

Jared Lloyd Champion (born February 27, 1983) is the drummer for American rock band Cage the Elephant. Born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, he now lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife and two daughters.

In high school, Champion, with current bandmate Matt Shultz, were in a cover band called Liquid Twilight. Champion needed a singer for the cover band, so Shultz agreed to do it. It is unknown when they broke up. However, Champion and Shultz left Liquid Twilight because they wanted to write original music.

After Liquid Twilight came to an end, Champion–along with Matt and Brad Shultz–were in a band that formed in 2001 called Perfect Confusion, which also included members Thomas Bullen (lead guitar)–who later joined Bowling Green band Sleeper Agent–and David Kem (bass). Although the band broke up in 2005, the members occasionally have reunions and perform at Tidball's, a Bowling Green bar and local music venue.

After Cage the Elephant formed in 2006, Champion, along with the rest of the band, moved to the United Kingdom to gain moderate success with their self-titled debut LP, releasing in Europe on June 23, 2008, and in the United States on March 24, 2009.

Following the release of the band's second studio LP, Thank You, Happy Birthday, Champion's appendix burst during a concert while touring with Foo Fighters. While being hospitalized, former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters' frontman, Dave Grohl, took Champion's place as the drummer for 3 shows during the tour. In 2014, while touring to promote Cage the Elephant's third studio LP, Melophobia, Champion took family leave. Kyle Davis, drummer for Nashville band Chrome Pony, took his place during the shows Champion missed.

In March, 2014, Champion played drums on Juliette Lewis' EP, Future Deep, that was produced by bandmate Brad Shultz.

From June 5–8, 2017, Champion played with The 8G Band on the late-night show Late Night with Seth Myers.

In high school, Champion was in marching band. He was also in concert band from middle school to college.

Champion holds two swim team records at Greenwood High School in Bowling Green; 100 butterfly and 200 individual medley.

Outside of Cage the Elephant, Champion composes instrumental and hip-hop pieces as a hobby. In late 2015–early 2016, he scored a short film featured in the Nashville Film Festival.

In November 2014, Champion's first daughter was born. In June 2016, Champion proposed to his now wife, Alicia. In July 2017, Champion and Alicia got married. In January 2019, the Champions welcomed their second daughter.

Jared has also been known to start a fire using a Bow Drill.
Historical Marker 726 - Warfield

Historical Marker 726 - Warfield is located in Warfield on KY 40.

## Description

A plundering, burning, Confederate detached force, under command of Col. V. A. Witcher, harassed east Kentucky and West Virginia during most of the Civil War. In fall, 1864, they took horses and cattle in this area from friend and foe. While Witcher's men made barbecue, Home Guards from Louisa attacked from hill to west. After exchange of fire, both withdrew. See over.

(Reverse) Warfield - First Martin County seat, 1870. Established about 1850 as a coal, salt and lumber community by George Rogers Clark Floyd and John Warfield of Va. mountains. Products shipped by river boats to Catlettsburg. Floyd was son of one Governor of Virginia, brother of another. Coal mines used thru Civil War as hiding place against marauding by enemy. See over.
Jane Mayhall

Jane Mayhall Katz (May 10, 1918 – March 17, 2009) was an American poet whose writing first received attention later in life, and was influenced by her transition from her youth in Kentucky to the hustle and bustle of life in New York City and her grief over the death of her husband. Her poems and other works had been published over the years in many publications, including The New York Times and The New Yorker.

Mayhall grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, where she was born on May 10, 1918. She attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where she majored in music, having entered as a talented composer, pianist and singer. There she met fellow student Leslie George Katz. The two married in the 1940s and moved to New York City. With her husband, she was an active participant in New York's bohemian community starting in the 1950s, and became friendly with many of the prominent artists at the time. Her husband founded Eakins Press, which published art and literature, including some of Mayhall's works.

Her debut novel Cousin to Human was published by Harcourt, Brace in 1960, telling the story of a girl growing up in Louisville. Florence Crowther's review of the book in The New York Times describes how "less adept" authors would have been challenged to make the story believable, but that "Miss Mayhall is a wise author - she has Lacy keep her mouth shut and yet be understood." Her husband's Eakins Press published her 1966 book of plays, poems and stories Ready for the Ha Ha & Other Satires, and the two-volume collection of poetry Givers and Takers that was published in 1968 and 1973.

Her collection of poems Sleeping Late on Judgment Day was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2004 when she was 85 years old. Many of the works included in the book reflected her grief after the death of her husband, described by Andy Bruner of The New York Times as including "pain so private in its specificity that it threatens to repel the reader's empathy", while other pieces she "turns away from her sorrow and offers poems with philosophical insights into love and its inevitable loss".

Mayhall died at age 90 on March 17, 2009 in her Manhattan home. She had no immediate survivors.
James Lane Allen

James Lane Allen (December 21, 1849 – February 18, 1925) was an American novelist and short story writer whose work, including the novel A Kentucky Cardinal, often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work is characteristic of the late-19th century local color era, when writers sought to capture the vernacular in their fiction. Allen has been described as "Kentucky's first important novelist."

James Lane Allen was born near Lexington, Kentucky to Richard and Helen Jane (Foster) Allen on December 21, 1849. Allen, the youngest child in the family, had four sisters Lydia, May, Sally, and Annie, and two brothers, John and Henry. Allen lived at the Scarlet Gate estate in Lexington in the late 1800s until age 22 years. Allen spent his youth in Lexington during the Antebellum era, the American Civil War, and the Reconstruction periods. His childhood experience heavily influenced his writing. He described living at Scarlet Gate in the introduction to A Kentucky Cardinal.

In 1893 Allen moved to New York City, where he lived until his death on February 18, 1925. He was a contributor to Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and other popular magazines of the time. His novels include The Choir Invisible, which was a very popular best seller in 1897.

Allen is buried in Lexington Cemetery. At the northern edge of Gratz Park in Lexington is the "Fountain of Youth", built in memory of Allen using proceeds willed to the city by him.

James Lane Allen School, an elementary school off Alexandria Drive in Lexington, Kentucky is named in his honor.
John McCracken Robinson

John McCracken Robinson (April 10, 1794 – April 25, 1843) was a United States Senator from Illinois.

Born near Georgetown, Kentucky, he attended the common schools and graduated from Transylvania University at Lexington. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar and began practice in Carmi, Illinois in 1818. He was a judge of the Illinois Supreme Court, and served as a general in the State militia. He was elected in 1830 as a Jacksonian (later a Democrat) to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John McLean. He was reelected in 1835 and served from December 11, 1830, Until his retirement in March 3, 1841, and was not a candidate for reelection. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Engrossed Bills (Twenty-second Congress) and a member of the Committees on Militia (Twenty-second through Twenty-fourth Congresses) and Post Office and Post Roads (Twenty-fourth through Twenty-sixth Congresses).

Robinson was elected an associate justice of the Illinois Supreme Court in 1843 and served until his death two months later in Ottawa, Illinois. His interment was in the Old Graveyard, Carmi, Illinois.
I Against Osborne

I Against Osborne is a novel written by Joey Goebel. It was first published in 2013. It was released in Germany under the titled *Ich gegen Osborne*.

## Description

The novel takes place entirely in one school day, on Monday, April 19, 1999, at Osborne High, one of the largest public high schools in the state of Kentucky, in a fictional small town. It is narrated by the protagonist, JAMES WEINBACH, all in first-person, past tense.

James is a seventeen-year-old senior. To say he doesn’t fit in is an understatement. Not only has he failed to make a place for himself in any of the various social groups (he’s not quite a freak, not quite a geek), but he is also estranged from the time in which he lives. He shuns youth culture—he won’t even wear blue jeans (a far cry from the protagonist of my previous novel). He loves all things old-fashioned: black and white movies, jazz, F. Scott Fitzgerald novels. He is an old man among toddlers, a romantic among sluts. He thinks of himself as being “the last gentleman.”
Joey Pendleton

Joey Pendelton (born May 3, 1946) was a Democratic member of the Kentucky Senate, representing the 3rd District from 1993 through 2012. He previously served as Minority Whip. The 3rd district, according to redistricting legislation passed during the 2013 Extraordinary Session, includes Christian, Logan, and Todd counties.

Pendleton was born May 3, 1946 in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky.

Pendleton has served as chairman of the legislature's Tobacco Task Force, Pendleton was an advocate for tobacco growers and their financial interests. He also worked to promote agricultural diversity, and championed legislation to permit the agricultural and industrial development of the controversial hemp plant (which ultimately passed the Kentucky Senate in the 2013 Regular Session).

He has served on the Health & Welfare Committee. In 1998, he received the "Better Life Government Award" from the Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities for support of legislation that created a state income tax deduction for long-term care insurance. The Brain Injury Association of Kentucky awarded Pendleton with the "S.T.A.R." Award in 1998 establishing the Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund. Pendleton serves as Project Manager for the Murray State University School of Agriculture. He was also named Outstanding Young Dairyman for the Southeastern United States in 1977 and received the 4-H Alumni Award in 1989. In 1996, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Kentucky Association of Conversation Districts. Prior to his tenure in the Senate, Pendleton also served three years as a magistrate on the County Fiscal court in the county where he lives, Christian County Kentucky.

On January 8, 2013 Whitney Westerfield succeeded Pendleton for the 3rd District Kentucky Senate seat.
Hunter S. Thompson Bibliography

## Novels

* 1971 – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
* 1998 – The Rum Diary

## Non-Fiction

* 1967 – Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
* 1973 – Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
* 1979 – The Great Shark Hunt
* 1983 – The Curse of Lono
* 1988 – Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s
* 1990 – Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
* 1994 – Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie
* 1997 – Mistah Leary - He Dead
* 2000 – Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976
* 2003 – Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
* 2005 – Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness
* 2005 – Gonzo: Photographs by Hunter S. Thompson
* 2009 – Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writings of Hunter S. Thompson edited by Jann S. Wenner
J. T. Riddle

Joshua Travis Riddle (born October 12, 1991) is an American professional baseball shortstop for the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2017.

Riddle attended Western Hills High School in Frankfort, Kentucky. He graduated in 2010. While playing for the school's baseball team, Riddle was named Mr. Kentucky Baseball. He then enrolled at the University of Kentucky, where he played college baseball for the Kentucky Wildcats.

The Miami Marlins selected Riddle in the 13th round of the 2013 Major League Baseball draft. He signed with Miami and began his professional career with the Batavia Muckdogs of the Class A-Short Season New York–Penn League. He spent all of 2013 there, batting .243 with two home runs and 18 RBIs in 59 games. He played for the Greensboro Grasshoppers of the Class A South Atlantic League in 2014 and batted .280 with nine home runs and 60 RBIs in 103 games. Riddle began the 2015 season with the Jupiter Hammerheads of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League, and after batting .270/.311/.314 in 45 games, received a midseason promotion to the Jacksonville Suns of the Class AA Southern League. In 44 games for Jacksonville he posted a .289 batting average with five home runs and 20 RBIs. After the 2015 season, the Marlins assigned Riddle to the Mesa Solar Sox of the Arizona Fall League.

In 2016, the Marlins invited Riddle to spring training. The Marlins added him to their 40-man roster after the season. He spent the season with both Jacksonville and the New Orleans Baby Cakes of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League, compiling a combined .276 batting average with four home runs and 53 RBIs in 116 games between both teams.

Riddle began 2017 with New Orleans, and was promoted to the major leagues on April 10. He recorded his first major league hit on April 12, on a checked swing infield single against the Atlanta Braves. On April 16, he hit a walk-off home run against the New York Mets, his first major league home run.

Following the trade of Adeiny Hechavarria in June, Riddle became the Marlins' primary shortstop. In mid-July Riddle tore a shoulder labrum, requiring season-ending surgery in August. He had batted .250 with a .282 on-base percentage, a .355 slugging percentage, three home runs, and 31 runs batted in in 70 games prior to his injury.

Riddle began 2018 on the disabled list and was optioned to New Orleans after he was activated. He was recalled to Miami on May 26.
I Thought It Was You

I Thought It Was You is a novel written by Shiloh Walker. It was first published in 2010.

## Description

The events of this free short story take place between the events of No Prince Charming and Ren's story, Crazed Hearts. It turns out both Ren and Elle had some loose ends they needed to tie up...and that's what this story is about. It's not Ren's happy ever after. That's in Crazed Hearts.
John F. Henry

John Flournoy Henry (January 17, 1793 – November 12, 1873) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.

Born January 17, 1793 in Kentucky, Henry attended Georgetown Academy, Kentucky, and Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1817. He served at Fort Meigs in 1813 as surgeon's mate of Kentucky troops. He engaged in agricultural pursuits and the practice of medicine.

Henry was elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert P. Henry and served from December 11, 1826, to March 3, 1827. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1827 to the Twentieth Congress. Professor in the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati in 1831. He moved to Bloomington, Illinois, in 1834 and to Burlington, Iowa, in 1845 and resumed the practice of medicine. He died in Burlington, Iowa, November 12, 1873. He was interred in Aspen Grove Cemetery.
J. A. "Bud" Hillerich

John Andrew "Bud" Hillerich (October 15, 1866 - November 28, 1946) made the first Louisville Slugger bat.

Hillerich was born in Louisville October 15, 1866. Family legend has it that Hillerich was attending a Louisville Eclipse baseball game where star Pete Browning broke his bat in July of 1884. Hillerich made a new bat for Browning in his shop on South First Street in Louisville between Main and Market Streets. The next day, Browning got three hits with the bat and the legend was born. In 1901, the factory moved to the corner of South Preston and Finzer Streets, where they would stay until 1974.

This site was vacant for many years after, but the land was donated to the city in 2015 to be developed into a community space. From 1974 to 1996, Louisville Sluggers were actually made in Jeffersonville, Indiana, just across the Ohio River at a facility called Slugger Park, while H&B maintained corporate offices on Broadway in Louisville.

Starting in the early 1990s, H&B CEO John A. "Jack" Hillerich III began looking to move production back to Louisville. Hillerich wanted to bring the factory back together with the business offices while also providing a place for the public to connect with the Louisville Slugger brand. Eventually, a site at 8th and Main Streets was chosen, the site of a former tobacco warehouse. After extensive renovations, the Museum & Factory opened in July 1996 with a gala of Hall of Fame players, including Ted Williams, Stan Musial, Ernie Banks, Harmon Killebrew and Pee Wee Reese. The museum underwent extensive renovations in 2008, led by Formations, Inc of Portland, OR. In 2015, the Museum & Factory broke its own attendance record, drawing more than 300,000 visitors. The building also houses corporate offices for Hillerich & Bradsby and its two other divisions, Bionic Gloves and PowerBilt Golf Clubs. Wilson Sporting Goods also maintains much of its Louisville Slugger sales force in the building after purchasing the brand from Hillerich & Bradsby in 2015. The Hillerich family maintains ownership of the museum and bat factory.

Hillerich died November 28, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois at the age of 80. He was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.
James E. Rankin

James Edwin Rankin, I August 13, 1810 - July 24, 1864) was a citizen of Henderson Kentucky who was attacked and injured during a Confederate guerrilla raid. The raid initiated the execution of Charles W. Thompson and Pierman Powell, two Confederate prisoners of war who had nothing to do with the attack. They were executed due to General Order 59, issued by General Stephen Burbridge.

Burbridge's Order stated for every guerrilla attack on Union soldiers or Union sympathizers, up to four Confederated prisoners would be executed at or near the place of the guerrilla attack.

Rankin, though gravely injured, attempted to save the two men, writing a letter to stop their execution, but they were executed anyway. Rankin died a few days later, on July 24, 1864, from his injuries.

He was buried in Fernwood Cemetery in Henderson, Kentucky.
John Barney Stagner

Johann Bernhardt "John Barney" Stagner (1714 - June 22, 1777) was born in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. He moved his family to the fort at Harrodsburg because of constant conflict with Indians. Captain James Harrod named Stagner as keeper of the fort springs that were located about a half mile from the fort. His task was aggravated by the young boys who liked to throw rocks and gourds in the spring to tease "old man Stagner" (he was in his sixties).

John Barney apparently believed that he led a charmed life, often bragging "the Indians can't kill me, I'm too old". One day during an Indian attack, he made this remark to James Ray who suggested that they hoist John Barney to the top of the fort to see what would happen. John Barney begged to be excused and quickly changed the subject but probably didn't change his mind. A short time later on the night of June 22, 1777, he took his horse outside the fort to graze against Harrod's instructions and repeated warnings. He was killed by Indians at the springs, they cut off his head and placed it on a pole outside the fort. It was 3 days before his body could be recovered for burial.

For years after that superstition had it that old Barney's headless ghost could be seen around the old fort spring on moonlight nights. John Barney was buried in the Old Fort Cemetery about one eighth mile from where he was killed.

The will of John Barney Stagner, written October 10, 1775 and on file in Rowan County, North Carolina names his wife Elizabeth, two sons and six daughters. His entire estate was left to his wife and youngest son, James Barney. The oldest son, John and the six daughters were left, "one shilling, lawful money, Great Britain".
If You Hear Her

If You Hear Her is a novel written by Shiloh Walker. It was first published in 2011.

## Description

n the dead of night, Lena Riddle wakens to hear screaming in the woods behind her house. A woman is in trouble, she's certain of it. But there's no body and no sign of a crime. Local law enforcement feels their hands are tied.

One man isn't quite so quick to dismiss her claims, though.

Ezra King, on leave from the state police, is dealing with demons of his own, but he can't seem to ignore his instincts when it comes to Lena. Something strange is going on and he believes in listening to those instincts. They're telling him to stay close to the woman...very, very close...
John C. Watts

John Clarence Watts (July 9, 1902 – September 24, 1971) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.

Born July 9, 1902 in Nicholasville, Kentucky, Watts attended the public schools. He was graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1925 and from its law school in 1927. He was admitted to the bar in 1927 and commenced the practice of law in Nicholasville, Kentucky. Also operated a farm. Police judge of Nicholasville, Kentucky from 1929 to 1933. County attorney of Jessamine County, Kentucky from 1933 to 1945. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1947 and 1948, serving as floor leader. He served as commissioner of motor transportation for State of Kentucky 1948-1951.

Watts was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-second Congress, by special election, April 4, 1951, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas R. Underwood. He was reelected to the ten succeeding Congresses and served from April 4, 1951, until his death from a stroke in Lexington, Kentucky on September 24, 1971. He was interred in Maple Grove Cemetery, Nicholasville, Kentucky.
Joe B. Hall

Joe Beasman Hall (born November 30, 1928) was the head basketball coach at the University of Kentucky from 1972 to 1985. He previously coached at Central Missouri State University and Regis University before returning to Kentucky in 1965 to serve as an assistant coach under Adolph Rupp.

Hall was given a difficult task—to follow in the footsteps of his legendary predecessor, Adolph Rupp. In the 1978 NCAA Tournament, he coached the Wildcats to their fifth NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. He was named National Coach of the Year in 1978 and Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year on four different occasions. His record at UK was 297–100, and 373–156 over his career.

Along with the 1978 title, Hall also guided Kentucky to a runner-up finish to UCLA in the 1975 NCAA tournament (which included an upset of heavily favored and previously undefeated Indiana in a regional final), a Final Four appearance in the 1984 NCAA Tournament (losing to eventual champion Georgetown), and an NIT championship in 1976. He won 8 Southeastern Conference regular season championships and one Southeastern Conference tournament championship.

Hall played one year of varsity basketball at Kentucky before transferring to the University of the South (Sewanee), where he completed his basketball playing eligibility but did not graduate. After Sewanee, Hall toured with the Harlem Globetrotters and later returned to Kentucky to complete his undergraduate studies. Hall graduated from Kentucky in 1955.

On Tuesday, September 18, 2012, the University of Kentucky unveiled a statue of Hall outside of the Wildcat Coal Lodge to commemorate his accomplishments at UK and his contributions toward the Wildcat Coal Lodge. The university says the bronze sculpture was produced over a period of eight months, beginning as a clay sculpture, then was cast in bronze. It was created by sculptor J. Brett Grill of Columbia, Mo.

Hall co-hosted a radio sports talk show with former University of Louisville basketball head coach Denny Crum from March 2004 to October 2014. The Joe B. and Denny Show ended on October 30, 2014 after WVLK-FM, the Lexington station from which Hall did his portion of the show, announced a change in format.
Jayber Crow

Jayber Crow is a novel written by Wendell Berry. It was first published in 2000.

## Description

"This is a book about Heaven," says Jayber Crow, "but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell." It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town's barber.

Orphaned at age ten, Jayber Crow's acquaintance with loneliness and want have made him a patient observer of the human animal, in both its goodness and frailty.

He began his search as a "pre-ministerial student" at Pigeonville College. There, freedom met with new burdens and a young man needed more than a mirror to find himself. But the beginning of that finding was a short conversation with "Old Grit," his profound professor of New Testament Greek.
"You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out--perhaps a little at a time."
"And how long is that going to take?"
"I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps."
"That could be a long time."
"I will tell you a further mystery," he said. "It may take longer."
John Thoney

John Thoney or John Thoeny, nicknamed "Bullet Jack" (December 8, 1879 – October 24, 1948) was a reserve outfielder/infielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1902 through 1911 for the Cleveland Bronchos (1902–1903), Baltimore Orioles (1902), Washington Senators (1904), New York Highlanders (1904), and Boston Red Sox (1908–1911). Listed at 5 ft 10 in, 175 lb., Thoney batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky.

In a six-season career, Thoney was a .237 hitter (216-for-912) with three home runs and 73 RBI in 264 games, including 112 runs, 23 doubles, 12 triples and 42 stolen bases. He made 225 appearances at left field (97), center field (52), third base (31), right field (15), second base (19), and shortstop (11).

He was considered as one of the fastest base runners in the American League, earning him his moniker, "Bullet Jack". He was plagued by injuries after breaking his collarbone early in his career, which seriously limited his playing time. He played three seasons in the middle of his career with the minor league Toronto Maple Leafs in what started out as a rehabilitation stint. His trip back to the Major Leagues was earmarked when he won the Eastern League batting title in 1906 and 1907 and was traded to the Boston Red Sox.

After retirement, he worked as a guard for Brinks in the armored vehicle service for 15 years. He died at the age of 68 in Covington, Kentucky and was buried in St. Stephen Cemetery in Fort Thomas, Kentucky.
I'm Dreaming of an Undead Christmas

I'm Dreaming of an Undead Christmas is a novel written by Molly Harper. It was first published in 2013.

## Description

Experience the vampire world for the holidays through the eyes of Gigi Scanlon in this e-novella prequel to The Dangers of Dating a Rebound Vampire from beloved paranormal romance author Molly Harper!

College co-ed Gigi is headed home to Half-Moon Hollow for her first Christmas since her sister, Iris, was turned into a vampire by her beloved undead husband, Cal. Iris is working overtime to make this holiday as normal and special as possible. After all, it's taken her months of working with Jane Jameson and the Hollow's vampires to convince herself that she won't bite her baby sister on sight.

Gigi has her own worries. She's falling out of love with her high school sweetheart, Ben, and has no idea how to tell him. She's got a secret job interview with terrifying teen Council official, Ophelia Lambert. And there's a handsome but cagey vampire following her around town and then disappearing before Gigi can confirm that he's not, in fact, a figment of her fertile imagination. Holidays with family are complicated. Christmas with an undead family can be downright dangerous.
I Refuse I Will Not Bow Down I Will Never Give Up

I Refuse I Will Not Bow Down I Will Never Give Up is a collection of poetry, stories and creative non-fiction written by Ron Whitehead. It was first published in 2013.

## Description

I REFUSE I WILL NOT BOW DOWN I WILL NEVER GIVE UP selected poems, stories, writings by Ron Whitehead.

"I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics." ~Hunter S. Thompson

"Ron Whitehead, out there in Kentucky, out there where the tall heroes used to grow, is sowing the dragon's teeth of new heroics." ~Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"Ron Whitehead is energetic Bodhisattvic poetic spirit! Happy to see and read so much poetry energy!" ~Allen Ginsberg

"The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt." ~David Amram

"I've seen thousands blinded by the white light, halos and fractal geometry of Ron Whitehead.” ~Frank Messina
Howie Camnitz

Samuel Howard "Howie" Camnitz (August 22, 1881 – March 2, 1960) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Philadelphia Phillies (1913) in the National League and for the Pittsburgh Rebels (1914–15) in the Federal League. A native of Covington, Kentucky, he batted and threw right-handed. In an 11-season career, Camnitz posted a 133–106 record with 915 strikeouts and a 2.75 ERA in 2085.1 innings pitched.

Camnitz pitched briefly with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1904 and 1906. In his first full season in 1907, he had a 13–8 record with a 2.15 ERA in 180 innings, including a five-inning no-hitter against the New York Giants on August 23. The next year, he went 16–9 with a 1.56 ERA and 15 complete games in 19 starts.

With an excellent curveball, Camnitz collected three 20-win seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1909 to 1912, leading his team to the 1909 World Series after winning 25 games in the regular season and tying Christy Mathewson for the National League lead winning percentage (.806).

Camnitz pitched at least 240 innings for seven consecutive years (1908–14) with a career-high 283 innings in 1909, winning 20 games in 1911 and 22 in 1912. After a 6–17 start in 1913, he was sent by the Pirates to the Philadelphia Phillies in the midseason. He pitched in nine games for them and had a 3–3 record, then jumped to the Pittsburgh Rebels in the Federal League in 1914 and posted a 14–19 mark. After battling arm problems, he retired in 1915.

Camnitz died in Louisville, Kentucky, at age of 78. He was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery.
If You See Her

If You See Her is a novel written by Shiloh Walker. It was first published in 2012.

## Description

The victim of an abusive marriage, Hope Carson knows all about surviving. She's trying to make a new life for herself in Ash, Kentucky, but it's not going as planned. Within a few weeks to Ash, she's attacked and implicated in an assault on her closest friend. Her abusive ex-husband was in law enforcement - cops and lawyers are the very last people she wants to trust.

Remy Jennings, the local district attorney, knows better than to fall for a woman who may or may not be involved in a crime that happened in his small town...and who he may have to prosecute. But he can't deny the attraction. Nor can he deny the way she makes him feel when she looks at him.

Hope's past is chasing after her, threatening to catch up with her. Torn between desire and the need to protect her, Remy is determined to earn her trust...while he still can.
Jay Rhodemyre

Jay Edsel Rhodemyre (December 16, 1922 – June 7, 1968) was born December 16, 1922 in Ashland, Kentucky. He was a center in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the seventh round of the 1948 NFL Draft and would play four seasons with the team.

Rhodemyer attended the University of Kentucky where he was elected to the 1948 College Football All Star Team. He was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity.

Rhodemyre died June 7, 1968 and was buried in Ashland Cemetery.
January 2

**January 2nd**

* 1815 – Thomas H. Hunt born.
* 1822 – William E. Simms born.
* 1831 – James W. Tate born.
* 1873 – John Marshall Robsion born.
* 1960 – Effie Waller Smith died, aged 80.
* 1970 – E. A. Diddle died, aged 74.
* 1977 – Ellis Wilson died, aged 77.
* 1986 – Una Merkel died, aged 82.
* 1993 – Bryson Tiller born.
* 2012 – Silvana Gallardo died, aged 58.
David White

David White (1785 – October 19, 1834) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.

Born in 1785, White completed preparatory studies. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New Castle, Kentucky. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1826.

White was elected as an Adams Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825). He died in Franklin County, Kentucky, October 19, 1834.
Jack Parr

Jack Parr (March 13, 1936 – January 4, 2015) was an American professional basketball player. Parr was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He played college basketball at Kansas State University. Kansas State retired his jersey, and his number 33 is hanging from the rafters. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Royals in the 10th round of the 1958 NBA draft. He played 66 games for the Royals in 1958–1959, averaging 4.0 points per game.

Jack Parr was not what you would call a picture player early in his career, but he was endowed with an intensity and inner drive that spearheaded him to All-America stature. Rugged and strong, he would sweep the boards. Parr's assortment of shots included a hook and a soft "face the basket" jumper. Against Kansas in Lawrence in 1958, Parr made perhaps his greatest defensive play. With the final seconds ticking away, Kansas went to Wilt Chamberlain under the basket for an assumed easy lay-in. Parr went straight up and batted the ball away, enabling K-State to take a thrilling 79–75 victory.

Three times Parr gained all-league honors. Twice he helped the Wildcats to conference championships and NCAA play and twice received All-America recognition. He still holds KSU's single-season rebounding record and is second on the career charts. He ranks 10th among the all-time Wildcat scoring leaders with 1,184 points. Parr played one season professionally with the Cincinnati Royals before turning to private business and becoming a Big Eight basketball official. He died in January 2015, aged 78, at his home in Lindsborg, Kansas.
Jean Ritchie Bibliography

## Non-Fiction Books

* 1953 – A Garland of Mountain Song: Songs from the Repertoire of the Ritchie Family of Viper, Kentucky
* 1955 – Singing Family of the Cumberlands
* 1963 – The Dulcimer Book: Being a Book About the Three-Stringed Appalachian Dulcimer
* 1965 – Apple Seeds and Soda Straws
* 1965 – Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians
* 1975 – Jean Ritchie's Dulcimer People
Jacob Wark Griffith

Jacob Wark Griffith (October 13, 1819 – March 31, 1885) was a Civil War Confederate officer and served in the Kentucky House of Representatives.

Griffith was born October 13, 1819 in Jefferson County, Virginia (now West Virginia).

During the Mexican War served in Colonel Humprhey Marshall's 1st Kentucky Cavalry. After the war he was a "Forty-Niner" during the California gold rush. During the Civil War he served as lieutenant colonel of the 1st Kentucky Cavalry, C.S.A. The 1st Kentucky Cavalry served as an escort for the fleeing Confederate government and Jefferson Davis.

Griffith served two terms in the Kentucky House of Representatives, 1854-55, and 1878-79.

Griffith was the father of legendary Hollywood filmmaker D. W. Griffith.

Jacob Griffith died March 31, 1885 in Oldham County, Kentucky and was buried in Mount Tabor Methodist Church Graveyard in Crestwood, Oldham County.
J. D. Crowe

James Dee Crowe (born August 27, 1937, in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American banjo player and bluegrass band leader. He first became known during his four-year stint with Jimmy Martin in the 1950s.

Crowe began playing the banjo early on and was offered a job with Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys in mid-1950s. He cut his first recordings with Jimmy Martin on December 1, 1956, and his last on August 17, 1960, recording a total of 33 songs on Decca Records. In the late 1960s, Crowe formed the Kentucky Mountain Boys, principally performing in the Lexington region.

In 1971, Crowe changed the band's name to The New South and included material from rock and country music sources. Crowe's New South band is widely considered one of the most influential bluegrass groups since the 1970s.

In 2004, Crowe was elected into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame.

Kentucky Educational Television in 2008 aired a biography of J.D. Crowe, A Kentucky Treasure: The J.D. Crowe Story, produced by H. Russell Farmer.

Crowe received the Bluegrass Star Award, presented by the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation of Dallas, Texas, on October 15, 2011. The award is bestowed upon bluegrass artists who do an exemplary job of advancing traditional bluegrass music and bringing it to new audiences while preserving its character and heritage.
John Edwards

John Edwards (1748 – 1837) was an American planter and statesman who played a key role in securing Kentucky statehood, and represented the new state in the United States Senate.

Edwards was born in Stafford County, Virginia and move to Fayette County to start a plantation in what is now Bourbon County, Kentucky around 1780. He represented his county in the Virginia House of Delegates in several years and was part of the commission that determined the borders for Kentucky in 1788. In 1792 he was a delegate to the convention that drafted the first constitution for the new state, and when statehood was accomplished he and John Brown were the first U.S. Senators for Kentucky.

After his term as a senator he served in both houses of the state legislature. He died on his plantation and was buried in the family graveyard near Paris, Kentucky.

His sons, Haden Edwards and Benjamin W. Edwards, were land speculators in Texas who led the failed Fredonian Rebellion against Mexican control.
John Caldwell

John Caldwell (September 22, 1758 – November 19, 1804) was a Kentucky politician, state senator, and the second Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky serving under Governor Christopher Greenup.

He was elected to the Kentucky State Senate in 1792, and was later elected the 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky in 1804. Caldwell died at the age of 46 on November 19, 1804 while presiding over the State Senate in his first year as Lieutenant Governor from "inflammation of the brain". He was buried in Frankfort Cemetery. John Caldwell is the namesake of Caldwell County, Kentucky.
Ink Stains & Watermarks: New and Collected Poems

Ink Stains & Watermarks: New and Collected Poems is a collection of poetry written by Frank X Walker. It was first published in 2017.

## Description

"In every stanza of this evocative and revelatory gospel, the inimitable X teaches us "Something important about holding on, something more about letting go." He leans hard into the fierce, achingly familiar and sometimes fractured realities of the black-lived life, and under his deft touch they unreel as stark cinema—character-driven, rich with sensory, imbibed with their own selfish music and utterly, utterly memorable." —Patricia Smith, author of Incendiary Art, Northwestern University Press
John Fetterman

John Fetterman (February 25, 1920 – June 21, 1975) was an American journalist, a reporter for The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky. He won the Pulitzer Prize for local, general, or spot-news reporting for his 1968 story "PFC Gibson Comes Home", about the death of a soldier in Vietnam and the return of his body. It focused on the young man's family in Knott County, Kentucky and the wider community. Fetterman also contributed to a Courier-Journal series on strip mining that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1967.

Born in Danville, Kentucky, Fetterman served in the U.S. Navy before enrolling at Murray State University under the G.I. Bill. After his graduation in 1949, he served on the staffs of the Murray Ledger and Times and the Nashville Tennessean. After graduate school at the University of Kentucky, Fetterman joined the staff of the Louisville, Kentucky newspaper.

He was the author of the 1967 book Stinking Creek, about life around the creek of the same name in Knox County, Kentucky.

John Fetterman's freelance writing also appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, National Geographic, Time, and Life.

Daughter Mindy Fetterman, also a newspaper journalist, is known for her work as a reporter, columnist and financial editor of USA Today.

John Fetterman died at the age of 55 on June 21, 1975 and was buried in Louisville Memorial Gardens East in Louisville, Kentucky.
January 17

**January 17th**

* 1818 – Whitley County formed.
* 1882 – Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert born.
* 1886 – William Howard Irwin died, aged ~67.
* 1903 – Charles Champion Gilbert died, aged 80.
* 1925 – Joseph E. Carrico born.
* 1932 – John W. Langley died, aged 64.
* 1942 – Muhammad Ali born.
* 1944 – Denny Doyle born.
* 1956 – James Lee born.
James Garrard

**James Garrard** (January 14, 1749 – January 19, 1822) was a farmer and Baptist minister who served as the second governor of Kentucky from 1796 to 1804. Because of term limits imposed by the state constitution adopted in 1799, he was the last Kentucky governor elected to two consecutive terms until the restriction was eased by a 1992 amendment, allowing Paul E. Patton's re-election in 1999.

After serving in the Revolutionary War, Garrard moved west to the part of Virginia that is now Bourbon County. He held several local political offices and represented the area in the Virginia House of Delegates. He was chosen as a delegate to five of the ten statehood conventions that secured Kentucky's separation from Virginia and helped write the state's first constitution. Garrard was among the delegates who unsuccessfully tried to exclude guarantees of the continuance of slavery from the document. In 1795, he sought to succeed Isaac Shelby as governor. In a three-way race, Benjamin Logan received a plurality, but not a majority, of the electoral votes cast. Although the state constitution did not specify whether a plurality or a majority was required, the electors held another vote between the top two candidates – Logan and Garrard – and on this vote, Garrard received a majority. Logan protested Garrard's election to state attorney general John Breckinridge and the state senate, but both claimed they had no constitutional power to intervene.

A Democratic-Republican, Garrard opposed the Alien and Sedition Acts and favored passage of the Kentucky Resolutions. He lobbied for public education, militia and prison reforms, business subsidies, and legislation favorable to the state's large debtor class. In 1798, the state's first governor's mansion was constructed, and Garrard became its first resident. Due in part to the confusion resulting from the 1795 election, he favored calling a constitutional convention in 1799. Because of his anti-slavery views, he was not chosen as a delegate to the convention. Under the resulting constitution, the governor was popularly elected and was forbidden from succeeding himself in office, although Garrard was personally exempted from this provision and was re-elected in 1799. During his second term, he applauded Thomas Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana from France as a means of dealing with the closure of the port at New Orleans to U.S. goods. Late in his term, his Secretary of State, Harry Toulmin, persuaded him to adopt some doctrines of Unitarianism, and he was expelled from the Baptist church, ending his ministry. He also clashed with the legislature over the appointment of a registrar for the state land office, leaving him embittered and unwilling to continue in politics after the conclusion of his term. He retired to his estate, Mount Lebanon, and engaged in agricultural and commercial pursuits until his death on January 19, 1822. Garrard County, created during his first term, was named in his honor.

Garrard was buried in the Garrard Family Cemetery in Ruddles Mills, Bourbon County.
Howling at the Hauntlys'

Howling at the Hauntleys' is a novel written by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones. It was first published in 1998.

## Description

The Bailey School Kids--Annie, Ben, and Jane--are afraid that the first guest to visit the spooky Hauntly Manor Inn down the block, Fang Hauntly, is not just your average teenager from Transylvania but a real live werewolf.
Jerry Lee

Chief Jerry Lee (October 18, 1847 - September 18, 1882) was born October 18, 1847.

He was appointed Frankfort City Marshal in the early 1880s.

He succumbed to gunshot wounds sustained September 10 when he responded to a disturbance at the Frankfort Hotel. He was shot moments later when he responded to a second disturbance call between two citizens at the location.

The man who shot him was arrested and charged with murder.

Chief Lee had served with the agency for at least 11 years. He is interred in Frankfort Cemetery.