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Articles with keyword "Kentucky"

Wendell Berry

Conversation

Wendell Berry, Landsman

NEH Chairman Jim Leach sits down with writer and farmer Wendell Berry, this year's Jefferson Lecturer.

Shed-style grave house

Curio

Houses of Spirits

By Steve Moyer

Kentucky photographer and folklorist keeps grave houses alive.

African-American jockey Jimmy Winkfield astride Alan-A-Dale.

Statement

The Racing Life

By Maryjean Wall

Kentucky jockey Jimmy Winkfield fled to Russia to escape Jim Crow.

Curio

Honorable Hotbloods

By James M. Prichard

“A Killing Gentleman” by James M. Prichard delineates the carefully prescribed protocol of dueling in the April issue of Kentucky Humanities.

Image of Virginia Carter of the Kentucky Humanities Council

In Focus

Kentucky’s Virginia Carter

By Sarah C. Vos

Virginia Carter promotes her state's history with Chautauqua.