Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets
Don’t own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire. Wendell Berry, Farming: a hand book
August 6, 1801, Edward West, who had first exhibited his miniature steamboat on the waters of the Town Branch in 1793, showed a vastly improved model. The next year he would receive a patent.
The Squire’ Sketches of Lexington by J. Winston Coleman, Jr.; pg: 24
August 6, 1950, Army PVT Manuel H. Neff from Harrison County died in the Korean War.
Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to London native James Darrell Scott, born in 1959.
August 6, 1969, Army SP4 Roy L. Felty from Brooklyn in Butler County died in the Vietnam War.
August 6, 1975, Governor J. Carroll picked D.W. Harrison to head the New Department of Energy.