Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets
A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance. Wendell Berry
August 9, 1803, John Kennedy started the first regular stage coach line in Kentucky, running from Lexington to the Olympia Springs in Bath County by way of Winchester and Mt. Sterling. The coach left Lexington at 4:00 a.m. and arrived at the springs the same day for 21 shillings.
The Squire’ Sketches of Lexington by J. Winston Coleman, Jr.; pg: 25
August 9, 1909, Trigg County lynched Wallace Miller, a black male, for rape.
August 9, 1950, Army PVT Bobby E. Lawson from Bell County died in the Korean War.
August 9, 1956, the Hollywood Civil War epic, Raintree County filmed in Danville.
August 9, 1971, Army SP4 Arnold Lovins from London died in the Vietnam War.
August 9, 1974, President Nixon resigned and President Ford became the 38th President.
Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Lexington native Tyson Gay, born in 1982.