Old Time Kentucky: Mighty flap over Frankfort fluttered when butterfly named official state insect
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist It probably wasn’t the state Senate’s finest hour. Debate was buzzing, but not over the…
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Old Time Kentucky: Despite its poor reputation, goldenrod can’t be blamed for your hay fever
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist The goldenrod is our state flower–some say state weed. Either way, it’s nothing to sneeze…
Old Time Kentucky: WW I hero famed as a Hell Fighter, but had even larger impact as an educator
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist Rufus Ballard Atwood came home a war hero in 1919, but not to a hero’s…
Old Time Kentucky: Christening U.S.S. Kentucky with water may have resulted in an early retirement
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist When Christine Bradley was invited to christen the U.S.S. Kentucky, she spurned champagne for water….
Berry Craig: Louisville publisher, diplomat Bingham saved historic St. Mary’s Parish in England
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist (Note: Berry Craig is spending his summer touring historic sites in Europe. This is his…
Old Time Kentucky: Despite his war fame, few in Elizabethtown remember ties to ‘the Bold Barney’
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist After reputedly beating the British in 25 sea battles in three wars, Commodore Joshua Barney…
Old Time Kentucky: Simpsonville Slaughter, not in most history books, should be remembered
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist The “Simpsonville slaughter” is not in most history books. But a state historical society marker…
Old Time Kentucky: Two-time Gov. McCreary loved his salty parrot so much it’s buried with him
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist James Bennett McCreary was a two-time Kentucky governor. He evidently wasn’t a two-timer, though he…
Old Time Kentucky: Hollywood strongman of 1930s performed physical feats that were hard to believe
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist Galen Hobson Gough heaved anvils, let beer trucks run over him and hung by his…
Old Time Kentucky: Doing what he loved, Alben Barkley drew his final breath firing up a crowd
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist The Robert E. Lee link lures tourists to Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va….
Old Time Kentucky: Marker tells story of youngest drummer boy in the War of the Revolution
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist A farmer said to be the Revolutionary War’s youngest drummer boy is buried on a…
Old Time Kentucky: Jackson Purchase area had its own version of ‘Free State of Jones’ during Civil War
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist The Jackson Purchase, Kentucky’s only Rebel-majority region, had its own “Free State of Jones” during…
Old Time Kentucky: Old Glory raised atop Lookout Mountain inspired Union to victory at Chattanooga
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist One of the most famous photos from World War II shows five U.S. Marines hosting…
Old Time Kentucky: Laura Clay, daughter of Lion of White Hall, was first woman to get Presidential vote
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist Hillary Clinton is poised to become the first woman nominated for president by a major…
Old Time Kentucky: Better known in Texas than his native state, Oliver Loving died hard
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist Mortons Gap native Oliver Loving died hard. He and “One-Arm Bill” Wilson had shot it…
Old Time Kentucky: Little-known Trigg County native Baker was last protector for Jefferson Davis
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist When the Yankees captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis, a Christian County native, Trigg Countian Hazard…
Old Time Kentucky: Robert Summers was a rare anti-smoking advocate over a century ago
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist More than a century before smoking was banned in many public places in Kentucky, the…
Old Time Kentucky: 60 Minutes reporter Rooney got Kolb’s wartime story straight, just not his name
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist First Lieutenant Frank Kolb and his infantry company went down in history as the first…
Old Time Kentucky: Morgan’s Christmas Raid of 1862 commemorated by cannonball in the wall
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist A souvenir of Confederate cavalry Gen. John Hunt Morgan’s famous “Christmas Raid” of 1862 is…
Old Time Kentucky: Remote Madrid Bend was scene of a less famous, but still deadly, family feud
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist Nobody seemed to know what brewed the bad blood between the Darnells and Watsons in…
Old Time Kentucky: At the beginning of the Space Age, Aurora’s honorary mayor was ‘out of this world’
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist Aurora had an honorary mayor who was out of this world. “Astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter…
Old Time Kentucky: When it comes to a plague, think bubonic, locust … or squirrel?
By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist When I hear “plague,” I think “bubonic” or “locust.” But in 1827, my neck of…