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Is Lexington the Literary Capital of Mid-America?
Tens of thousands of Kentuckians were focused last Tuesday night on cheering for the Wildcats as they thrashed the Florida Gators. Still, a few blocks away from a packed Rupp Arena, the Carnegie Center...
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Two Kentuckians turn their passions into business opportunities
Alex Brooks left Lexington for two years of graduate school in England, where he studied book conservation. He has returned and started what may be Kentucky’s only company that conserves old books for...
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One entrepreneur hopes to educate, another to be educated
Rosetta Lucas Quisenberry just published her fifth black history book. Photo by Tom Eblen Not all entrepreneurs are in it for the money. As two very different entrepreneurs from Lexington show,...
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Writers celebrate 40 years of Kentucky’s unique Larkspur Press
The University of Kentucky honored Gray Zeitz, center, last Friday on the 40th anniversary of his Larkspur Press in Monterey, which publishes hand-crafted books by Kentucky writers. Before the...
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Museum publishes new illustrated Lexington history book
Historic Lexington: Heart of the Bluegrass is a new illustrated history book published by the Lexington History Museum. The book includes a 64-page history narrative written by Lexington lawyer Foster...
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Book combines cross-country unicycle ride, off-the-grid living
Mark Schimmoeller, author of Slowspoke: A Unicyclist’s Guide to America, in the small cabin he and his wife, Jennifer Lindberg, built themselves on a wooded hillside in northern Franklin County....
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NY photographer explores historic Bluegrass homes in new book
The walled garden and orchard at Gainesway Farm was added by owner Antony Beck, a longtime friend of photographer Pieter Estersohn. Beck suggested that Estersohn do the book, Kentucky: Historic Houses...
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Calumet book author to speak at Carnegie Center about writing
When Ann Hagedorn was growing up in Dayton, Ohio, her father would bring her to Lexington each spring break and they would visit horse farms. The most memorable one was Calumet. “Calumet was always...
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Book chronicles Lexington’s early ‘contemporary’ homebuilder
This house,built on Breckenwood Drive in 1958, shows characteristics of Richard Isenhour’s contemporary homes: native Kentucky stone, lots of glass, cathedral ceilings, exposed post-and-beam...
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New book tells sad, fascinating story of madam Belle Brezing
Belle Brezing’s last and most famous house of ill repute, at 59 Megowan Street (now Eastern Avenue at Wilson Street). The third story was added after an 1895 fire. She died there in 1940. Below, two...
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New book chronicles colorful history of Lexington’s Iroquois Hunt
Dr. Jack van Nagell, joint-master of fox hounds for the Iroquois Hunt Club, leads the beginning of a hunt on his Fayette County farm March 29. Van Nagell is the current president of the national...
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Richmond author’s final book chronicles World War I fighter pilots
RICHMOND — The new book First to Flychronicles the Lafayette Escadrille, a group of young Americans who flew primitive fighter planes for France before America entered the First World War. They were a...
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African American Encyclopedia reveals untold Kentucky stories
Gerald Smith and his co-editors spent most of a decade working on the newly published Kentucky African American Encyclopedia. It wasn’t just research, writing and editing; they had to raise much of the...
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Writers Crystal Wilkinston, Ronald Davis reopen Wild Fig Books
Writers Crystal Wilkinson and Ronald Davis are reopening Wild Fig Books on North Limestone after closing an earlier store in Meadowthorpe. Photos by Tom Eblen Writers, partners and book-lovers...
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Started in a Lexington basement, Int’l Book Project marks 50 years
Lisa Fryman, right, executive director of the International Book Project and Ridvan Peshkopia, who earned a doctorate in political science at the University of Kentucky, watched as Merritt Rohlfing,...
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With Breeders’ Cup coming, black jockey Isaac Murphy gets his due
The most celebrated jockey in Lexington this month won’t be riding in Keeneland’s fall meet, or afterward at the Breeders’ Cup. In fact, he died 119 years ago. Isaac Burns Murphy, a black Kentuckian...
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Foster Pettit’s posthumous memoir offers interesting history, lessons in good...
A big reason Lexington has prospered over the past 40 years is a gutsy decision by politicians and voters in the early 1970s to create a non-partisan merger of city and county governments. As...
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