Author: Susan B. Dyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948901062
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Susan B. Dyer's memoir of her quest to help restore the Judge Joseph Holt mansion in Breckinridge County, Kentucky.
Author: William Montell
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081312784X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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"Lynwood Montell has collected ghost tales all over the state of Kentucky, from coal mining settlements to river landings, from highways to battlefields. He presents these suspense-filled stories just as he first heard or read them: as bona fide personal experiences or as events witnessed by family members or friends. There are over 250 stories in Ghosts across Kentucky that are set in specific places and times. They include tales of graveyards, haunted dormitories, animal ghosts, and vanishing hitchhikers. Montell describes weird lights, unexplained sounds, felt presences, and disappearing apparitions. Phantom workmen, fallen soldiers, young lovers, and executed criminals appear in these pages, along with the living who chance upon them. Though the focus is on the stories themselves, Montell also includes a chapter explaining our fascination with the supernatural and the deep truths these storytelling traditions reveal about our lives and our pasts.William Lynwood Montell, emeritus professor of folk studies at Western Kentucky University, is the author of several books, including Killings."
Author: Joseph Holt
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Author: Mary Carol Miller
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034213
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Author: Robert M. Rennick
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813144019
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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" From the wealth of place names in Kentucky, Rennick has selected those of some 2,000 communities and post offices. These places are usually the largest, the best known, or the most important as well as those with unusual or inherently interesting names. Including perhaps one-fourth of all such places known in the state, the names were chosen as a representative sample among Kentucky's counties and sections. Kentucky Place Names offers a fascinating mosaic of information on families, events, politics, and local lore in the state. It will interest all Kentuckians as well as the growing number of scholars of American place names.
Author: Leonard, Elizabeth
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807835005
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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This manuscript is the first biography of Joseph Holt, the U.S. Army's Judge Advocate General during the Civil War. Leonard argues that Holt has been portrayed as more or less a caricature of himself, flatly represented as the brutal prosecutor of Lincoln's assassins and the judge who allowed Mary Surratt to be hanged despite knowing her sentence had been reduced. Leonard contends that the southern view of Holt became the predominant way we see him, in large part because the memory perpetrated by the Lost Cause defined Holt as ruthless toward Southerners and the South. But Leonard argues that there is much more to Holt than what sympathizers with the Lost Cause came to think of him, and she tells his story here, from his early life in Kentucky to his wartime life as a member of Lincoln's administration to his postwar life as the prosecutor of Lincoln's assassins. Perhaps most important, Leonard will look at the erasure of Holt from American memory and investigate how such a significant figure has come to be so widely misunderstood.
Author: Joseph Holt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judge advocates
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: Joseph Holt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissenters
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Author: Joseph Holt
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Author: Joseph Holt
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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