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In the next installment of Uncommon History, Daniel Hurt speaks to Brent Taylor, West Kentucky Community & Technical College's associate professor of history, about Kentucky's statehood story that started with a 1788 letter sent to Congress in New York City, which expressed Kentucky's frustration about the pace of the Union-joining process.
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In the next installment of Uncommon History, Daniel Hurt speaks with Alissa Keller, Executive Director of the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County, ahead of the city's Cayce Days, which pays tribute to Hopkinsville's favorite mystic son, clairvoyant Edgar Cayce, whose abilities drew people from all over the country to western Kentucky.
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In the next installment of Uncommon History with Daniel Hurt, Hurt speaks to author and professor emeritus of history from West Kentucky Community College Berry Craig about Paducah native John T. Scopes. It would become one of the highest-profile cases, including prosecution led by former presidential candidate and US Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan and one of the top attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union, Clarence Darrow.
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Daniel Hurt and Alissa Keller, Executive Director of the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County, discuss Hopkinsville’s Brooks Memorial Hospital, a Black-run and operated medical center at the height of segregation.
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Over a century ago, a central Kentucky community witnessed an unusual weather phenomenon: meat falling from the sky like rain.