Page 10 -11 -- Prisoners
Seized And Hanged By KuKlux Gang In 1877
PHOTOS: Sketches
Page 12 -- Old "Red Bob,"
Owsley County Moonshiner, Arrested In 1897
PHOTOS: Hollis Gibson, legendary
revenue agent, investigated moonshine still during 1950s.
Page 13-14 -- W. W. Pigg Ran
A Successful Stage Line In Richmond and Irvine
PHOTO: Stagecoach ready for departure,
Estill County, Kentucky.
Page 15-17 -- J. W. Lane Gives
Graphic Details Of Fight With Tollgate Raiders
PHOTO: Tollgate at Constance,
Boone County, Kentucky, early 1900s.
Page 18-19 -- Rex's Attitude
Towards Food Brought Out The Beast In Him
PHOTO: Marvin Sullivan with his
best friend, Rex, in 1951, Pendleton County, Kentucky.
Page 20-23 -- A Sketch Of
Marshall County's Murder Trials From 1850-1891.
Page 24-28 -- Collier Family
Enjoyed Life At Lick Fork Of Millstone Creek
PHOTOS: Collier home at Lick
Fork, Letcher County./Family photos.
Page 29-30 -- The Why Of Wildflower
Names
PHOTOS: Wildflowers in full bloom.
Page 31-32 - Three Winchester
Police Officers Made "The Supreme Sacrifice."
PHOTOS: Memorial photo/Faulkner
Family/Officers killed in line of duty.
Page 33-35 - Ghost Of Aunt
Sally Mountain Brought Old-Timer To Prayer
Page 36-38 -- Former Blue
Diamond Coal Camp Resident Recalls Poor Roads In 1918
PHOTOS:
Mining company town Perry County/Map/Coal Miners
Page 39-41 -- Gen. John H.
Morgan's Telegraph Operator Tells Of Adventure
PHOTOS: Col. John H. Morgan.
Page 42-43 --
The Stone Family Music Tradition Has Continued For Many Years
PHOTOS: Stone
family photos.
Page 44-45 --
Efforts Were Made To Make Silk A Staple Crop In Kentucky
PHOTOS: Hemp field in Central
Kentucky.
Page 46-47
-- Memorial Day Often Called Decoration Day By Kentuckians
Page 48-49
-- Memories Of A Graveyard Cleaning In Webster County
Page 50
-- Mina Hoskins Celebrated 90th Birthday In Perry County
PHOTOS: Hoskins children/Scott
and Mina Stacy Hoskins.
Page 52
-- Gristmill And Old Engine Weekend In Clay City
PHOTOS: Gristmill.
Page 52
-- Larry Meadows Recipient Of Lifetime Dedication To Kentucky
History Award
PHOTOS: Larry Meadows receiving
award.
Page 58
-- Derby Day Invitation From Gov. Flem D. Sampson In 1929
PHOTOS: 75th running/Newborn
filly/ Colts engage in game of "boxing."
Page 60
-- Rice Family To Gather For 75th Reunion In June
PHOTOS: Rice Family of Mason
County.
Page 62-63 --
Short Gleanings From Collins's 1878 Historical Sketches Of Kentucky:
Little Known & Mostly Forgotten -- From One Of Kentucky's
Most Noted History Books.
Kentucky counties featured: Scott, Fayette, Josh Bell, Wayne,
Woodford, Campbell, Clinton, Edmonson
Page 64 --
Kentucky Explorer Book
Page
Books featured: Kentuckians In War, 1930 Whitley County and
McCreary County Census, The Gallatin County Story, Books By Simpson
Page 65 --
My Favorite Place To
Visit In Dear Old Kentucky:
This is a new column that we hope will
be a success. In 300 words or less, you are invited to share
with our readers your favorite place to visit in Kentucky. Please
give reasons, directions, and photos (if possible). Let us hear
from you soon. Thanks!
Winchester, Kentucky. Photo of St. George
Hotel.
Page 66
-- Old-Time Recipes
To Enjoy Conducted by Darlene
Howard
Protose Hash, Apple Stack Cake, Sweet
Potato Bread, Easy Tomato Preserves, Coffee Cake
Page 67 -- Word Puzzle: Early
Marriages In Cumberland County
Readers' Photos
Page 4-- Two white mules that
belonged to John M. Crawford, Rockcastle County.
Page 5 -- (Cover photo) Salyersville,
Magoffin County, 1912.
Page 6 - Steel-hull packet making
trips from Evansville, Indiana, to Paducah, McCracken County,
Kentucky.
Page 7 -- Kentucky Scottish Weekend,
Carrollton, Kentucky.
Page 8 -- The Pride Of Valley
View painting by Mary Benge, Richmond, Kentucky.
Page 9 -- Burrus School, Convict
Road, Bourbon County.
Page 11 -- L & N Railroad
Crew, Rockcastle County.
Page 17-- Railroad
crew in Corbin, Laurel County, 1908.
Page 21 -- Headquarter Company,
149th Infantry, (Camp Knox) Fort Knox, 1930.
Page 23-- Daniel Taulbee Family.
1915 on Frozen, Breathitt County.
Page 41 -- Red House, Madison
County, L&N Railroad workers, 1928.
Page 45 -- World War I draftees,
Muhlenberg County Courthouse, 1918.
Page 46 -- Crowd scene at the
old Salem Church in Laurel County.
Page 47
-- Old-time preachers, Henry Bruner, Alex Profitt, and Jack Garland.
Page 51
-- Former one-room schools in Owsley County; Big Springs, Levi,
and old Scoville.
Page 61--
Willie Drye, 1870s, Big South Fork of Rolling Fork River in northern
Casey County.
Page 62
-- Mike and Nora McRoberts.
Page 63
-- Ed Ward honored for his contributions to poetry, Southeast
Community College in Cumberland/Sarintha Esther Catherine Abrams
Branson, ca. 1928, Carter County.
Page 64-- Jesse Pendleton and
children, Montgomery County, 1950.
Page 65 -- Alvin Thomas family,
1947, Bath County.
Page 66-- Hilza Tackett, early
1900s.
Page 68 -- Manuel family members,
1966, Garrard County.
Page 69 -- Wireman family, 1933,
possibly Wolfe County.
Page 70-- Joseph Henry and Maggie
Dobkins Barnett family, ca. 1941, Pulaski County.
Page 70 -- Bacon Creek, Corbin,
Laurel County, 1938.
Page 71 -- Headstone of Lula
Adams Sumner, Harlan County.
Page 71 -- Wiremans, ca. 1920,
Magoffin County.
Page 73-- Lizzie Davis, Haddlie
D. Johnson, and Harld D. Johnson, Boone Tavern Hotel, Madison
County.
Page 75 -- School at Lykins,
Magoffin County, 1918.
Page 76 -- Avery family of Hart
County.
Page 78 -- Menafee Hall on Old
Pearl, Caney Creek, Knott County, 1946.
Page 79 -- Alka Alemandar Davis,
1948, David, Floyd County.
Page 80 -- Reece family, Danville,
Boyle County, 1945.
Page 81 -- Virginia Graham Carey
and Jessie Graham Medows, Mercer County.
Page 82 -- Delores Walker, Brenda
Marsee, and Jerry Davison, early-to-mid-1940s.
Page 83-- Elizabeth Shockey Chaffin.
Page 84 -- Sons and daughters
of Richard Heddie Vest and Bessie Hazel Rudd Vest, early 1940s.
Page 85-- Breck and Nancy Holcomb,
1915.
Page 86-- D. C. Stephens and
Harriet Rector Stephens and their children, Wayne County, 1913.
Page 87 -- Cletus Justice, mid-1940s,
Alaska.
Page 88 -- Old-fashioned hog
killing, Letcher County.
Page 89 -- Mary Lee Dean Mauk,
taken in 1931 in Morehead, Rowan County.
Page 90-- Nora Averil Trimble,
ca. 1937, Johnson County.
Page 91-- Martin Luther Penick
and Leona Colson Penick and their children, 1956, Dry Ridge,
Grant County.
Page 92 -- Ellis family members,
1937, possibly Casey County.
Page 93 -- Bennett boys of Meade
County, ca. early 1900s.
Page 94 -- Daniel Akers family,
1940.
Page 95 -- Matt and Laura Harris
Watkins family photos.
Page 96 -- David Chaltas.
Page 98 -- Post office at Letcher,
Letcher County.
Page 99-- Baldwin Clothing Store,
Perryville, Hardin County, 1953.
Page 102 -- U. S. Naval Ship
General Simon B. Buckner.
Page 103-- Dorothy Boyd Rogers,
Danville/Harrodsburg area.
Page 105 -- Mary Elizabeth Wilson
Graf, Nelson County; Anne Margaret Ford Wilson, Nelson County;
Mary M. Kelly Ford, Bullitt County.
Page 106 -- Fifth grade class
of Ellisville School, Nicholas County.
Page 107 -- Descendants of Willis
D. and Rosa Gregory Culp, 1949. Some of the family members were
from western Kentucky.
Page 108 -- 1929/1930 girls'
basketball team from Curlew, Kentucky.
Page 109 -- Martin Family Reunion
in 1981 in Clark County, Kentucky.
Page 110 -- Hardgrove family
members, Somerset, Pulaski County, 1927.
Page 110 -- Loretta Walker Easterling
and Gracie Jackson in front of Hitchins High School, Carter County,
1943.
Other Features
Page 49 -- Kentucky Roadside
History Markers - They Tell The Story Of Our State: Confederate
State Convention, Russellville, Logan County. Civil War Occupations,
Bowling Green, Warren County.
Page 30 -- Sketches of Kentucky's
Great Outdoors: Catfishin' In Kentucky
Page 34 -- Thoughts To Ponder
From The Kentucky Philosopher
Page 35 -- Mystery Photos
Page 72 -- Songs Kentuckians
Were Singing 100 Years Ago: Sleep, Beloved, Sleep
Page 53-54 Kentucky's 1879 State Gazetteer: A Look
At Kentucky Towns
Aliceton, Boyle County; Bainbridge, Christian County; Ballardsville,
Oldham County; Hazard, Perry County; Hazel Patch, Laurel County;
Maple Grove, Trigg County; Marion, Crittenden County; Martinsburg,
Monroe County; Massack, McCracken County.
PHOTOS: Farmers
engaged in news and greetings Versailles, Woodford County; Street
scene in Hazard, Perry County; Taft Day in Hickman, Fulton County.
Page 51
Kentucky Genealogy
Websites: Each month The Kentucky Explorer presents
websites related to genealogy in Kentucky for our growing number
of readers who use computers and the Internet.
Ancestor's Soup; Cissy's Jackson County Roots; Jackson County;
Southern Kentucky Past Finders.
If you have a website you would like
listed, please e-mail us at: kyexgen@tgtel.com
Page 56-57 Readers Share Postcard Views ca. 1910
Columbia, Adair County.
Methodist Church, Muhlenberg County.
Corbin, Laurel County.
Bloomfield, Nelson County.
Lawrnceburg, Anderson County.
Page 68-72 Kentucky Genealogy Help Line: Queries are published
free up to 50 words as space is available.
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Moore-Wright, Saylor, Combs-Angel-Miller, Lawson, Baker-Hall,
Stringer-Daughtery, Crawley-Marshall-Stamper, Bond, Sizemore,
Colwell, Whittaker, Quillen, Harris-Champlin-Sears, Payton-Shoopman,
Baker-Duzan-Erwin, Couch-Stacy, Fletcher, Waddle-Turpin, Collier-Huddleston-Williams,
Sumner, Winkler, Wiley-Wallace-Day, Reynolds-Lewis-Gilmore, Kyle-Noe,
Jenkins-Christian, Whitaker, Ritchie, Elmore-Malone, Dailey.
Page 74-75
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& Other Special Announcements
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Page 78-95 I Remember
By Our Readers -- From All Over
Kentucky
Old Pearl
From Middle Creek: Sloshing In The Gene Pool
Lincoln County Memories
Decoration Day
On The Home Front
Memories Of Kentucky
Winter Memories Of 1940s
The Life Of Cletus Justice
Remembrances
Page 96-97
Strictly Kentucky Genealogy Various
materials to aid in Family History Research.
Cook
Page 100-101
Readers Share Old Photos
Class at Blackey, Letcher County, ca.
1956.
Nancy Jane Hopkins, 1910, in Floyd County.
Dining room employees of Brown-Proctor
Hotel, Winchester, 1946-47.
Mascot at Fort Campbell, 1956.
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