Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it. Wendell Berry
August 7, 1776, the 1st recorded marriage in Kentucky took place at Fort Boonesborough. Elizabeth (Betsy) Callaway married her Knight in Shining Armor, Samuel Henderson. Squire Boone performed the ceremony. Samuel, in Daniel Boone’s rescue party, rescued his bride, her sister, and Jermima Boone from Native Americans three weeks earlier. Customary frontier celebrations included much fiddle music and dancing and the excellent banter. The celebration featured home grown watermelons, the 1st grown at the settlement and of which the entire colony was very proud.
Patriarch of the American Frontier by Donald Durbin, Jr.
August 7, 1968, Army PFC Walter L. Walls from Louisville died in the Vietnam War.
August 7, 1969, Army SGT Lionel Workman from Clearfield in Rowan County died in the Vietnam War.
August 7, 1978, the Gambler played the Western Kentucky State Fair in Hopkinsville.