“Instead of thinking there is a wall between the living and the dead, I thought there was a very thin veil. It was almost as if they had just gone into the next room.” Hilary Mantel
“I believe that history has failed almost everybody who is ordinary in the world.” Min Jin Lee
“People die twice — this first is a physical death, the second is when a person’s name is spoken aloud for the last time.” Banksy
Thanksgiving 1922: A Season for Gratitude and Penitence
Joyland Park wasn’t joyful for many
Local History: Amusement in a Racist, Segregated Town
Belle Brezing and Lexington’s Schadenfreude
Loved by all.
Zhang Yitang
Once a sandwich artist
Local History: The Menu
Local History: The Phoenix
Local History: Recording the Fallen
Local history: “And then came nearer the dark angel of pestilence.” The 1833 cholera epidemic and mass death in Lexington.
Local history: Giron’s Confectionary
Local history: the Skuller’s Clock
Reflections: Chance
Local History: South Broadway Train Station, Lexington, KY
Essay: Passing the Word on the Enslaver Henry Clay and the Slave Labor Camp Known as Ashland
Nellie
Ooh, never enough paper, never enough letters, so we won’t forget.