Rick Smoot

Rick Smoot (Richard Clayton Smoot) was born in Bellefonte, Kentucky, on 14 July 1956. Smoot attended the public schools of Ashland, Kentucky, and graduated from Marshall University (B.A., 1978, M.A., 1981), in Huntington, West Virginia, where he studied history, English, and German, and the University of Kentucky (Ph.D. in history, 1988). Most of Smoot's adult life has been spent in post-secondary education, as a professor of history or as an administrator. Smoot has taught at McNeese State University, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, at Marshall University, and since 1997 has served as instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor of history at Bluegrass Community and Technical College in Lexington, Kentucky. From 2000 to 2011 he also taught history classes at the University of Kentucky. Presently (i.e., 2014) Smoot shares his wee house with two American Staffordshire Terriers, the ever-exuberant M. Hunter Le Chien, and the warm and lovely Miss Hawley Haw-Haw La Pugh.