Kentuckys Bluegrass

Author : Carolyn Murray-Wooley
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813147794
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rock Fences of the Bluegrass written by Carolyn Murray-Wooley and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gray rock fences built of ancient limestone are hallmarks of Kentucky's Bluegrass landscape. Why did Kentucky farmers turn to rock as fence-building material when most had earlier used hardwood rails? Who were the masons responsible for Kentucky's lovely rock fences and what are the different rock forms used in this region? In this generously illustrated book, Carolyn Murray-Wooley and Karl Raitz address those questions and explore the background of Kentucky's rock fences, the talent and skill of the fence masons, and the Irish and Scottish models they followed in their work. They also correct inaccurate popular perceptions about the fences and use census data and archival documents to identify the fence masons and where they worked. As the book reveals, the earliest settlers in Kentucky built dry-laid fences around eighteenth-century farmsteads, cemeteries, and mills. Fence building increased dramatically during the nineteenth century so that by the 1880s rock fences lined most roads, bounded pastures and farmyards throughout the Bluegrass. Farmers also built or commissioned rock fences in New England, the Nashville Basin, and the Texas hill country, but the Bluegrass may have had the most extensive collection of quarried rock fences in North America. This is the first book-length study on any American fence type. Filled with detailed fence descriptions, an extensive list of masons' names, drawings, photographs, and a helpful glossary, it will appeal to folklorists, historians, geographers, architects, landscape architects, and masons, as well as general readers intrigued by Kentucky's rock fences.

Author : James C. Claypool
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143962609X
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kentucky's Bluegrass Music written by James C. Claypool and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is likely that most fans of bluegrass music would concede that no state should be more associated with bluegrass music than Kentuckyand rightly so. Bluegrass music draws its name from the band that Kentuckian Bill Monroe formed during the late 1930s and 1940s. Bill named his band Bill Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys to honor his home state. Eventually, the music these bands and others like them were playing came to be known as bluegrass music. Later, another Kentuckian, Ebo Walker, while playing with the Bowling Green-based bluegrass band, New Grass Revival, coined the phrase newgrass to describe the bands progressive style of music. Other Kentuckians such as Bobby and Sonny Osborne, J. D. Crowe, Ricky Skaggs, and Dale Ann Bradley have become bluegrass stars. Some of the musicians from Kentucky covered in this book are quite famoussome are not. Famous or not, all of them have a deep-rooted passion for the music they play.

Author : Wynelle Deese
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738505657
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kentucky's Bluegrass written by Wynelle Deese and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within these pages are vintage postcards, created between 1900 and 1950, that depict an area known across the country as Kentucky's Bluegrass. From its horse farms to its military forts and river commerce, this seventeen county region exemplifies the spirit and pride of Kentucky, and the images preserved on these postcards bring the history of this unique area to life.

Author : R. Gerald Alvey
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878055449
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kentucky Bluegrass Country written by R. Gerald Alvey and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kentucky Bluegrass Country by R. Gerald Alvey Horse breeding, the cultures of tobacco and bourbon, the forms of architecture, the codes of the hunt, the traditions of gambling and dueling, convivial celebrations, regional foodways-all of these are ingredients in the folklife of the Inner Bluegrass Region that is the focus of this fascinating book. R. Gerald Alvey (retired) was a professor of folklore and English at the University of Kentucky.

Author : Jeff Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977240036
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kentucky written by Jeff Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the beauty and splendor of Kentucky in all four seasons through this photographic journey.

Author : James C. Claypool
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738585611
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kentucky's Bluegrass Music written by James C. Claypool and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is likely that most fans of bluegrass music would concede that no state should be more associated with bluegrass music than Kentucky--and rightly so. Bluegrass music draws its name from the band that Kentuckian Bill Monroe formed during the late 1930s and 1940s. Bill named his band Bill Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys to honor his home state. Eventually, the music these bands and others like them were playing came to be known as bluegrass music. Later, another Kentuckian, Ebo Walker, while playing with the Bowling Green-based bluegrass band, New Grass Revival, coined the phrase "newgrass" to describe the band's progressive style of music. Other Kentuckians such as Bobby and Sonny Osborne, J. D. Crowe, Ricky Skaggs, and Dale Ann Bradley have become bluegrass stars. Some of the musicians from Kentucky covered in this book are quite famous--some are not. Famous or not, all of them have a deep-rooted passion for the music they play.

Author : Pieter Estersohn
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580933564
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kentucky written by Pieter Estersohn and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Kentucky: Historic Houses and Horse Farms, pre-eminent architectural and interiors photographer Pieter Estersohn guides us through Bluegrass Country, the legendary landscape around Lexington, Kentucky. The wealthiest town west of the Alleghenies prior to the Civil War, Lexington has a rich architectural and cultural history that is manifest in the elegant houses within and around the center. Equally compelling is the equestrian heritage that has made Lexington the “Horse Capital of the World.” Among the properties presented are Ashland, an Italian-inspired villa built for distinguished statesman and orator Henry Clay; Pope Villa, one of only two extant residences by Benjamin Latrobe, the architect of the U.S. Capitol; Waveland, a completely intact Greek Revival estate from the 1830s; and Pleasant Hill, the largest restored Shaker community in the country. Dramatic aerial photographs celebrate the rolling landscape and expansive horse farms, including Gainesway Farm, a 1,500 acre site that has produced an impressive roster of legendary Throughbreds. Kentucky is a multifaceted and compelling portrait of a unique part of our country that combines a reverence for history and Southern traditions of hospitality and generosity with a vital present.

Author : William Van Meter
Publisher : Free Press
ISBN 13 : 9781416538691
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bluegrass written by William Van Meter and published by Free Press. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shocking investigation into a true crime that tore a town apart—the violent murder of a young coed in Kentucky, the innocent boy who was jailed for the crime, and a small Southern community filled with haunting, unforgettable characters. Katie Autry was a foster child from a tiny village in Kentucky; a little awkward, but always with the biggest smile on her high school cheerleading squad. In September 2002, she matriculated as a freshman at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, majoring in the dental program. She worked days at the smoothie shop, nights at the local strip club, and fell in love with a football player who wouldn’t date her. On the morning of May 4, 2003, Katie Autry was raped, stabbed, sprayed with hairspray, and set on fire in her own dormitory room. In telling the true story of this shocking crime, William Van Meter describes the devastation of not one but three families. Two young men are jailed for the crime: DNA evidence places Stephen Soules, an unemployed, mixed-race high school dropout, at the scene; and Lucas Goodrum, a twenty-one-year-old pot dealer with an ex-wife, a girlfriend still in high school, and a history of domestic abuse, is held by an ever-changing confession. The friends of the suspects and the foster and birth families of the victim form complex and warring social nets that are cast across town. And a small southern community, populated by eccentrics of every socioeconomic class, from dirt-poor to millionaire, responds to the horror. With the keen eye of a talented young journalist returning to his southern roots, Van Meter paints a vivid portrait of the town, the characters who fill it, and the simmering class conflicts that made an injustice like this not only possible, but inevitable. Like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Bluegrass is redolent with atmosphere, dark tension, and lush landscapes.

Author : Mel Hankla
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734535006
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into the Bluegrass written by Mel Hankla and published by . This book was released on 2020-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signature Edition, slip cased, leather bound 250 limited edition.Into the Bluegrass - Art and Artistry of Kentucky's Historic Icons displays author Dr. Mel Hankla's gifts as a teacher of history and skilled storyteller. Dr. Hankla shares his deep knowledge of frontier Kentucky and his great reverence for her early peoples, offering his readers the best possible outcome: interesting stories told by someone who loves his subject. From Kentucky's earliest frontier weapons to the artistry found in 19th-century furniture, silver, textiles, pottery, and pictorial art, the objects are iconic and the story is Kentucky's own.

Author : Mary E. Wharton
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081318679X
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bluegrass Land and Life written by Mary E. Wharton and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inner Bluegrass Region of Kentucky is a shining jewel of geography—synonymous in the minds of many with the state of Kentucky. It is unique in many respects: the character of its land, its native vegetation, and its indigenous animal life. The way of life developed by its human inhabitants over the past two hundred years, especially its focus on the Thoroughbred horse, is also unique. The interaction of these two forces—natural and human—is the focus for this important work. The book includes color plates of representative plant and animal species and typical habitats. The annotated lists of 474 animal and nearly 1,200 plant species describe habitat, frequency, and distribution. Bluegrass Land and Life is a book that will delight all who share an interest in the Bluegrass region's past and present and a concern for its future.