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Showing posts with label 1958. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1958. Show all posts
Friday, March 31, 2017
HP SPECIAL REPORT: Kentucky-shaped Pool!
Can barely type ... this is an HP Special Report ... we are getting multiple reports in at the #ohky desk that the Kentucky Terrace Motel on U.S. 41 in Henderson had a pool in the shAPE OF KENTUCKY!
... need a moment to compose myself ...
... will advise as events warrant ...
... need a moment to compose myself ...
... will advise as events warrant ...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Something Robert Penn Warren Wrote That Did Not Win The Pulitzer
He won for fiction in 1947 for All the King's Men, and he won for poetry in 1958 for Promises: Poems 1954-1956. But Guthrie's Robert Penn Warren did not win for You, Emperors, and Others: Poems 1957-1960, which is where "Mother Makes the Biscuits" comes from. I don't care; I love it--plus, it's really hard to repeat.
Mother makes the biscuits,
Father makes the laws,
Grandma wets the bed sometimes,
Kitty-cats have claws.
Mother sweeps the kitchen,
Father milks the cow,
Grandpa leaves his pants unbuttoned,
Puppy-dogs bark, bow-wow.
All do as God intends,
The sun sets in the west,
Father shaves his chin, scrape-scrape,
Mother knows best.
Clap hands, children,
Clap hands and sing!
Hold hands together, children,
And dance in a ring,
For the green worm sings on the leaf,
The black beetle folds hands to pray,
And the stones in the field wash their faces clean
To meet break of day.
But we may see this only
Because all night we have stared
At the black miles past where stars are
Till the stars disappeared.
Mother makes the biscuits,
Father makes the laws,
Grandma wets the bed sometimes,
Kitty-cats have claws.
Mother sweeps the kitchen,
Father milks the cow,
Grandpa leaves his pants unbuttoned,
Puppy-dogs bark, bow-wow.
All do as God intends,
The sun sets in the west,
Father shaves his chin, scrape-scrape,
Mother knows best.
Clap hands, children,
Clap hands and sing!
Hold hands together, children,
And dance in a ring,
For the green worm sings on the leaf,
The black beetle folds hands to pray,
And the stones in the field wash their faces clean
To meet break of day.
But we may see this only
Because all night we have stared
At the black miles past where stars are
Till the stars disappeared.
Monday, December 3, 2012
Oh, Kentucky
Strong reviews are rolling in from Commonwealth Christmas parades ... From Boyce, Stanford, Ashland, Bowling Green, Henderson, and Columbia ... From Hanson ...
And from Madisonville ...
From WHVO/WKDZ: "The community put its backing into this year's Cadiz Christmas Parade and the results were spectacular." ... And from Anonymous: "Great christmas parade in marion today! 'Tink' Hicklin was one of the 4 grand marshals. He represented the Air Force branch and the veterans of World War II. Even Santa made an appearance!"
More parades: Monticello, Dec. 7; Frankfort, Dec. 8, and Augusta, Dec. 15.
Frankfort's newspaper will have a new editor for the first time since 1979.
Rest in peace, Mr. Crigler, 1958 UK hoops national champion, Hebron native and the man for whom the basketball court is named at Scott County Middle School.
And from Madisonville ...
More parades: Monticello, Dec. 7; Frankfort, Dec. 8, and Augusta, Dec. 15.
Frankfort's newspaper will have a new editor for the first time since 1979.
Rest in peace, Mr. Crigler, 1958 UK hoops national champion, Hebron native and the man for whom the basketball court is named at Scott County Middle School.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Billy Graham in His Prime
Eric has been keeping track of Billy Graham's health, which is appropriate given Graham's importance -- both in the history of the church, and the history of the South. But I think it's also appropriate to understand how he became famous, and to remember him as he was.
In this clip from 1958, you can see him at the height of his powers.
In this clip from 1958, you can see him at the height of his powers.
Monday, June 4, 2012
'The New Kentucky' (as of 1961)
The last chapter, "The New Kentucky," from Kentucky Yesterday and Today, written by Ruby Dell Baugher and Sarah Hendricks Claypool in 1961 and published by Kincaid Publishing House three years later:
There are silver-like strips that go east and west, north and south. They are highways that run right on through hills and over rivers. On those highways there are thousands of automobiles, trucks, moving vans, and buses. They are even now carrying more freight than trains. There has been a Louisville and Nashville train carrying passengers between Louisville and Henderson for more than a hundred years. It stopped November 15, 1958 because too few people had been riding it. Automobiles and planes are putting Kentucky passenger trains out of business. Nothing shows off our New Kentucky more than our 1961 civilization on wheels moved by gasoline. ...
Many would say that is is the schools that speak for a New Kentucky. There is the University of Kentucky Northwest Center at Henderson. It is so new that the 1960-1961 term was its very first, thus giving all in Western Kentucky who desire an education of university quality, an opportunity. Its first Director, they do not call him President, is Dr. Louis Alderman. In this our New Kentucky there are high schools and colleges available for all who will take advantage of their glorious privileges. And there is a public school for every boy and girl; the Minimum Foundation Law takes care of that. It provides each school district in the state a minimum program of education, regardless of the wealth of the district. State support for education provides sufficient funds to operate a minimum program defined by law. Those schools, all the way from the tiniest one-room school up to the most splendid college, are needed if Kentucky lives up to the highest expectations of Kentuckians in the past, the present, and the future.
Nothing helps more to make this a New Kentucky than electricity everywhere. Dix Dam, Louisville Dam, Wolf Creek Dam, and Kentucky Dam--these are the main sites for generation of electricity by water power. It is a New Kentucky with electricity in the milking barn as well as in the Governor's mansion. It is wherever practical necessity demands as well as luxury.
Western Kentucky has its smoke stacks and tipples proclaiming coal mines as viewed from the air. There is an Atomic Energy Plant at Paducah as recent as the Korean fighting. And there is Kentucky Lake drawing all people who have time to play.
There is nothing that announces New Kentucky more than Kentucky Lake. Last year it led all Tennessee Valley Authority impoundments with millions of visits from pleasure seekers. It is a recreational project that draws dollars from everywhere. Its thousands of houseboats, cruisers, runabouts, and rowboats are valued at more than eighteen millions of dollars. The value of its summer cottages run into thousands of dollars. Its tourist courts, cottages, and cabins rent for millions of dollars every year. At the 1960 Kentucky Lake Fishing Derby, Governor Combs said that tourists spent $160,000,000 in Kentucky in the summer of 1960. He said that the tourist industry was second only to agriculture in cash income in the State's industries.
There is a New Kentucky that does not shout. It speaks very firmly, sometimes in only whispers. But the whispers penetrate. This New Kentucky speaks through the devoutness of the churches, the desire for better teaching, sounder learning, cleaner politics, and in the problem of Integration.
This is New Kentucky, all forty thousand three hundred and ninety-five square miles of it for its population (1960) of more than three million people.
There are silver-like strips that go east and west, north and south. They are highways that run right on through hills and over rivers. On those highways there are thousands of automobiles, trucks, moving vans, and buses. They are even now carrying more freight than trains. There has been a Louisville and Nashville train carrying passengers between Louisville and Henderson for more than a hundred years. It stopped November 15, 1958 because too few people had been riding it. Automobiles and planes are putting Kentucky passenger trains out of business. Nothing shows off our New Kentucky more than our 1961 civilization on wheels moved by gasoline. ...
Many would say that is is the schools that speak for a New Kentucky. There is the University of Kentucky Northwest Center at Henderson. It is so new that the 1960-1961 term was its very first, thus giving all in Western Kentucky who desire an education of university quality, an opportunity. Its first Director, they do not call him President, is Dr. Louis Alderman. In this our New Kentucky there are high schools and colleges available for all who will take advantage of their glorious privileges. And there is a public school for every boy and girl; the Minimum Foundation Law takes care of that. It provides each school district in the state a minimum program of education, regardless of the wealth of the district. State support for education provides sufficient funds to operate a minimum program defined by law. Those schools, all the way from the tiniest one-room school up to the most splendid college, are needed if Kentucky lives up to the highest expectations of Kentuckians in the past, the present, and the future.
Nothing helps more to make this a New Kentucky than electricity everywhere. Dix Dam, Louisville Dam, Wolf Creek Dam, and Kentucky Dam--these are the main sites for generation of electricity by water power. It is a New Kentucky with electricity in the milking barn as well as in the Governor's mansion. It is wherever practical necessity demands as well as luxury.
Western Kentucky has its smoke stacks and tipples proclaiming coal mines as viewed from the air. There is an Atomic Energy Plant at Paducah as recent as the Korean fighting. And there is Kentucky Lake drawing all people who have time to play.
There is nothing that announces New Kentucky more than Kentucky Lake. Last year it led all Tennessee Valley Authority impoundments with millions of visits from pleasure seekers. It is a recreational project that draws dollars from everywhere. Its thousands of houseboats, cruisers, runabouts, and rowboats are valued at more than eighteen millions of dollars. The value of its summer cottages run into thousands of dollars. Its tourist courts, cottages, and cabins rent for millions of dollars every year. At the 1960 Kentucky Lake Fishing Derby, Governor Combs said that tourists spent $160,000,000 in Kentucky in the summer of 1960. He said that the tourist industry was second only to agriculture in cash income in the State's industries.
There is a New Kentucky that does not shout. It speaks very firmly, sometimes in only whispers. But the whispers penetrate. This New Kentucky speaks through the devoutness of the churches, the desire for better teaching, sounder learning, cleaner politics, and in the problem of Integration.
This is New Kentucky, all forty thousand three hundred and ninety-five square miles of it for its population (1960) of more than three million people.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Oh, Kentucky
From the recruiting trail, ...
Kentucky is coming to Arlington, Va., and RFD-TV.
Western Kentucky went to Frankfort.
Darrell Scott (!) is coming to Madisonville, and Tommy Womack (!) is coming back.
The Very Worst Thing, again.
The Turett, no more.
KET News Quiz, baby! Nine of 10 for the Kentucky desk.
Defending the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.
Keeping Long John Silvers in Louisville.
Rejuvenating a neighborhood in Hopkinsville.
Bullish on beef.
"'In Kentucky' is perhaps the best known and most printed poem about Kentucky. It was written by Judge James Hillary Mulligan for a banquet for the members of the Kentucky legislature held 11 February 1902 at the Phoenix Hotel in Lexington. ..."
Speaking of awesome (again).
Kentucky is coming to Arlington, Va., and RFD-TV.
Western Kentucky went to Frankfort.
Darrell Scott (!) is coming to Madisonville, and Tommy Womack (!) is coming back.
The Very Worst Thing, again.
The Turett, no more.
KET News Quiz, baby! Nine of 10 for the Kentucky desk.
Defending the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.
Keeping Long John Silvers in Louisville.
Rejuvenating a neighborhood in Hopkinsville.
Bullish on beef.
"'In Kentucky' is perhaps the best known and most printed poem about Kentucky. It was written by Judge James Hillary Mulligan for a banquet for the members of the Kentucky legislature held 11 February 1902 at the Phoenix Hotel in Lexington. ..."
Speaking of awesome (again).
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