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Joseph Sandiford Atwell was born on July 1, 1831, in Barbados. After completing his education at Codrington College, an Anglican school on that island, he moved to the United States in 1863 and attended Divinity Hall, forerunner of the Philadelphia Divinity School, from which he graduated in 1866. He also raised funds to help residents of Barbados immigrate to Liberia. The emancipation of four million people from slavery drew Atwell to the southern states to participate in the Episcopal Church’s efforts to evangelize the freedpeople. The church’s American Missionary Society sent him first to Louisville, Kentucky, to serve a newly organized church and school for African Americans. While there, he met and married Cordelia A. Jennings, a graduate of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia and one of the school’s teachers. They had three sons. Bishop Benjamin Smith ordained Atwell as the first black deacon in the Diocese of Kentucky and in 1867 received Atwell’s pa ....
Before we slide past the zero of a new decade and put 2021 on the map, we must of necessity look at the most unique Christmas in any of our lifetimes â one landing in the middle of an unprecedented pandemic, as we simultaneously turn over the reigns of government to a new president. It is a moment to reflect on our past, as we make a template for the future. And the ABCs of Christmas should always start with that engaging and magical word altruism â the selfless concern for the wellbeing of others. Nowhere can this be seen more clearly than by turning back the clock and looking again (as we did in 2012) at 604 E. Second St. in the year 1896. It was then that Nat Gaither (president of the Bank of Hopkinsville) and Hunter Wood Sr. (attorney and publisher of the Kentucky New Era) raised funds for the construction of The Church of The Good Shepherd. Both of these men were vestrymen of Grace Episcopal Church. This project that they envisioned and brought to fruition w ....