Kentucky: Land of Tomorrow

ISBN 10: 0916968251 / ISBN 13: 9780916968250

Published by University Press of Kentucky, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kentucky: Land of Tomorrow
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0916968251
• ISBN 13: 9780916968250
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Published by the Kentucky Historical Society and distributed by the University Press of Kentucky The history and beauty of the Bluegrass State come alive in words and pictures, as this volume chronicles the Kentucky experience in all its variety. Rare black-and white historic images combine with more than two hundred modern color photographs to complement a narrative written by some of the commonwealth's most celebrated wordsmiths: Thomas D. Clark, George Ella Lyon, John Ed Pearce, Gerald L. Smith, Michal Smith-Mello, and Michael T. Childress. Photographs by Dan Dry of Louisville, Kentucky. excerpt: Where are you from? ""Kentucky,"" I say. I'm from a place where people still stop for funerals, where they know who your grandmother was, where they tell stories at Corn Island at the state park at the dinner table where they pass on their youngest's outgrown clothes and bring a casserole as soon as someone dies. ―George Ella Lyon

About the Authors

Thomas H. Appleton Jr. is Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Kentucky History and Politics at Eastern Kentucky University.

Dr. Melba Porter Hay is Division Manager for Research and Publications with the Kentucky Historical Society.

James C. Klotter is State Historian and professor of history at Georgetown College. He is the author of several books, including, with Lowell H. Harrison, A New History of Kentucky.