Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets
The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do. Lionel Hampton
October 12, 1808, the most important theatrical event in the Western Country occurred with the opening of Luke Usher’s New Theater in Lexington, capable of seating 500-600 people. Locals had converted a brewery into the theater. They showed a comedy, Richard Cumberland’s The Sailor’s Daughter. It was the 1st permanent theater in the early west.
The Squire’ Sketches of Lexington by J. Winston Coleman, Jr.; pg: 27
Kentucky Trivia: The Iroquois Hunt Club is the nation’s third oldest fox hunting club.
Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Union native Joshua Ryan Hutcherson born in 1992.
Positives: 643 / 80,930
Deaths: 3 / 1,255 – 1st Death 3/16/20
50&over: 1,220 / 49-30: 33 / 29&under: 2