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Old Time Kentucky: Lincoln, a hero to legions, was largely unloved in his native Bluegrass State

February 6, 2017February 5, 20170

By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist No son of Kentucky is more famous or more revered than Abraham Lincoln, and rightly…

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Old Time Kentucky: Hickman Courier’s support of secession reflected South’s influence in the Purchase

January 30, 2017January 30, 20170

By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist One of Kentucky’s oldest newspapers has rebel roots. “The South,” the Hickman Courier editorialized in…

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Old Time Kentucky: Gunboat to gunboat duel in the river would have been one-sided — if it happened

January 16, 2017January 15, 20170

By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist Most old-time Kentucky duels were fought with pistols. But early in the Civil War, it…

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Old Time Kentucky: Bluegrass sharpshooter Ephraim Brank, hero of New Orleans, never missed his mark

January 9, 2017January 8, 20170

By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist Friend and foe remembered Lt. Ephraim Brank’s marksmanship in the Battle of New Orleans. The…

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Old Time Kentucky: For good fortune in the New Year, better eat your black-eyed peas

January 1, 2017December 31, 20160

By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist More than a few Kentuckians will ring in the New Year with a down-home feast…

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Old Time Kentucky: Remembering when state revelers welcomed the New Year by anvil firing

December 26, 2016December 25, 20160

By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist More than a few of our Kentucky forebears who sang “Silent Night” didn’t practice what…

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Old Time Kentucky: Christmas report of soldier’s Pearl Harbor demise was greatly exaggerated

December 24, 2016December 24, 20160

By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist The Hamlin home in Harlan was joyless seventy-five Christmases ago. On Dec. 16, 1941, Green…

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Old Time Kentucky: Was Christmas truce of 1914 a ‘rebellion against authority’ for soldiers?

December 17, 2016December 19, 20160

By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist It is hard to separate fact from folklore about the storied World War I Christmas…

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Old Time Kentucky: Fayette native Jackson was only Congressman to fall in Civil War combat

December 13, 2016December 12, 20160

By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist Congressman James Streshly Jackson of Hopkinsville wanted to do more in the Civil War than…

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Old Time Kentucky: Dec. 7, 1941 proved to be no ordinary day for Gunner’s Mate Vessels

December 7, 2016December 4, 20160

By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist Dec. 7, 1941, seemed like an ordinary Sunday morning in port for Gunner’s Mate Third…

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Old Time Kentucky: Home of BBN could have been called McConnell Springs instead of Lexington

November 28, 2016November 27, 20160

By Berry Craig Special to NKyTribune If the Redcoats and the Minutemen hadn’t tangled at Lexington, Mass., on April, 19,…

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Old Time Kentucky: Former Louisville Journal editor Prentice was all in on Lincoln’s Thanksgiving plan

November 21, 2016November 20, 20160

By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist George D. Prentice, sharp-penned Civil War editor of the Louisville Journal, was not an Abraham…

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Old Time Kentucky: State’s only World War I Medal of Honor winner was also a modest hero

November 11, 2016November 11, 20160

By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist “The most modest hero of the world war” is buried in Louisville’s Zachary Taylor National…

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Old Time Kentucky: Mountain man Smith earned moniker of Peg Leg while roaming Garrard County

November 7, 2016November 5, 20160

By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist There are two memorials to mountain man “Peg Leg” Smith in Borrego Springs, Calif. But…

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Old Time Kentucky: Now rare as a May blizzard, Socialist Party once a big draw in Graves County

October 24, 2016October 24, 20160

By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist Kentucky is one of the redder Republican Red states. But some real Reds used to…

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Old Time Kentucky: Woolly bear caterpillars signal fall is here — but do they predict the weather?

October 17, 2016October 17, 20160

By Berry Craig NKy Tribune columnist The annual migration of woolly bear caterpillars will soon begin. Like the flowering goldenrod,…

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Old Time Kentucky: Did Mayfield host the Bluegrass State’s biggest burgoo blowout in ’31?

October 9, 2016October 8, 20160

By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist Generations of Kentucky politicians knew that the true path to voters’ hearts ran through their…

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Old Time Kentucky: Little remains of Viola ammunition plant once among the state’s largest

October 3, 2016October 2, 20165

By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist EDITOR’S NOTE: The author’s late father, Berry Craig Jr., served aboard a rocket-firing Landing Craft…

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Old Time Kentucky: Mighty flap over Frankfort fluttered when butterfly named official state insect

September 26, 2016September 25, 20161

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

September 19, 2016September 18, 20160

By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist The goldenrod is our state flower–some say state weed. Either way, it’s nothing to sneeze…

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Old Time Kentucky: WW I hero famed as a Hell Fighter, but had even larger impact as an educator

September 13, 2016September 12, 20160

By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist Rufus Ballard Atwood came home a war hero in 1919, but not to a hero’s…

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Old Time Kentucky: Despite his war fame, few in Elizabethtown remember ties to ‘the Bold Barney’

August 22, 2016August 21, 20160

By Berry Craig NKyTribune columnist After reputedly beating the British in 25 sea battles in three wars, Commodore Joshua Barney…

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