We’re celebrating ten years of Our Rich History. You can browse and read any of the past columns, from the present all the way back to our start on May 6, 2015, at our newly updated database: nkytribune.com/our-rich-history By Jacob Hogue Special to NKyTribune Drag queens and kings have been here since the beginning of…
We’re celebrating ten years of Our Rich History. You can browse and read any of the past columns, from the present all the way back to our start on May 6, 2015, at our newly updated database: nkytribune.com/our-rich-history By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune One of the most important gay and lesbian rights…
We’re celebrating ten years of Our Rich History. You can browse and read any of the past columns, from the present all the way back to our start on May 6, 2015, at our newly updated database: nkytribune.com/our-rich-history By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune Several weeks ago, a longtime friend, Pamela Mullins, shared…
We’re celebrating ten years of Our Rich History. You can browse and read any of the past columns, from the present all the way back to our start on May 6, 2015, at our newly updated database: nkytribune.com/our-rich-history By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress established…
We’re celebrating ten years of Our Rich History. You can browse and read any of the past columns, from the present all the way back to our start on May 6, 2015, at our newly updated database: nkytribune.com/our-rich-history By Don Heinrich Tolzmann Special to NKyTribune Henry F. Farny (1847–1916) is well known for his paintings…
We’re celebrating ten years of Our Rich History. You can browse and read any of the past columns, from the present all the way back to our start on May 6, 2015, at our newly updated database: nkytribune.com/our-rich-history By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune The Civil War was the nation’s worst disaster. Too…
We’re celebrating ten years of Our Rich History. You can browse and read any of the past columns, from the present all the way back to our start on May 6, 2015, at our newly updated database: nkytribune.com/our-rich-history By Steve Preston Special to NKyTribune The state of Kentucky was in a conundrum during the American…
(We’re celebrating ten years of Our Rich History. You can browse and read any of the past columns,from the present all the way back to our start on May 6, 2015, at our newly updated database. Enjoy at nkytribune.com/our-rich-history) By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune He was one of the first art teachers…
Editor’s note: We’re celebrating ten years of Our Rich History. You can browse and read any of the past columns, from the present all the way back to our start on May 6, 2015, at our newly updated database. Enjoy! By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune Eighty years ago, on May 8, 1945…
By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune “The public mind has for some time appeared to be interested and alarmed, relative to the cession of Louisiana to the French. Vague conjectures have been hastily formed, and as hastily abandoned by all parties. It is however generally agreed that the expected cession will be a…
By Don Heinrich Tolzmann Special to NKyTribune Wikipedia is often criticized for its inaccuracy, so when I found the following reference on Frankfort, I thought it was a good example: “The site evidently received its name after an incident in 1780, when pioneer Stephen Frank was killed in a skirmish with Native Americans; the crossing…
By Raymond G. Hebert, PhD Special to NKyTribune The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky relates that Bobby Mackey’s Music World had a storied building on 44 Licking Pike in Wilder that “was preceded by one constructed about 1850, which served as a slaughterhouse and meatpacking plant in what was called Finchtown.” The entry then details several…
By Don Heinrich Tolzmann Special to NKyTribune Cincinnati has a monument in Washington Park in Over-the-Rhine that honors Friedrich Hecker (1811–1881), a well-known Forty-Eighter (48er) who was one of the foremost leaders of the 1848 Revolution in Germany. His descendants, in partnership with the German American Heritage Society of St. Louis, are organizing a tour…
By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune Today, as in the past, it sometimes feels that finding politicians who base their careers on the principle of the rule of law rather than popularity is as rare as finding a diamond in a coal mine. There are exceptions, of course. One was Stanley Matthews (1824–1889),…
By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune Two hundred years ago this month, President John Quincy Adams took the oath of office as the Sixth President of the United States (serving March 4, 1825–March 4, 1829). In the immediate years thereafter, American politics would usher in the so-called “Second Party System” (1828–1854), dominated by…
By Paul A. Tenkotte Special to NKyTribune St. Patrick’s Day is one of Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky’s favorite celebrations. Since the 1800s, Cincinnati has been hosting one of the largest St. Patrick’s Day Parades in the nation. Over the years, the parade route has changed. For instance, in March 1877, there were two metropolitan-based processions, one on…
By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune In celebration of Women’s History Month By the late 1940s, women across the United States and Northern Kentucky found themselves reverting to traditional roles within the home, as returning American servicemen replaced them in the labor market. During World War II, the U.S. government had encouraged women…
By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune Ashes on foreheads on Ash Wednesday, “fish frys” on Fridays, passion plays, and the annual “Praying the Steps” on Good Friday at Holy Cross-Immaculata Catholic Church on Mt. Adams in Cincinnati — all these evoke vivid images of Lent. In Christianity, Lent is the 40-day season between…
By Don Heinrich Tolzmann Special to NKyTribune German bakeries were once plentiful on both sides of the Ohio River. Aside from bread and other baked goods, German bakers liked singing German songs, and in 1881 founded the Cincinnati Bäcker Gesangverein (Cincinnati Bakers Singing Society). A picture from its 30th anniversary celebration in 1911 shows that…
By Tracey Howerton Special to NKyTribune Have you ever written a letter to the President of the United States? Dr. Benjamin Franklin Stevenson of Boone (and later Kenton) counties has. In December 1864, Dr. B. F. Stevenson found himself compelled to write a letter to US President, and fellow Kentuckian, Abraham Lincoln. What was Stevenson’s…
By Raymond G. Hebert, PhD Special to NKyTribune In August 2016, Royal Cup Coffee and Tea, a family-owned and longstanding business dating back to 1896, featured Busken Bakery in its “Local Legends Business Spotlight.” By that time, Busken had been going strong for 80+ years. That same article, in talking about Busken’s background, emphasized that…
By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune There are many memorable scenes from the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. One in particular strikes my fancy. Former speechwriter for both Presidents Nixon and Ford, Ben Stein plays a bit part as an economics teacher—droning on and on in a monotone voice—trying to use the Socratic…
