Kentuckians honor former Gov. John Y. Brown Jr.
Kentuckians were given an opportunity to pay their respects to former Gov. John Y. Brown Jr., on Tuesday at the Capitol in Frankfort.
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Kentuckians were given an opportunity to pay their respects to former Gov. John Y. Brown Jr., on Tuesday at the Capitol in Frankfort.
For politics to work, we need doses of real reform, from people like John Y. Brown Jr, writes Kentucky columnist Al Cross.
Brown, who died Tuesday at 88, made only two promises: to run state government like a business, and to use his sales skills and business experience
After record flooding in Eastern Kentucky, United Methodist volunteers are serving as God’s “hands and feet.” Writer Kathy L. Gilbert and photographer Mike DuBose report from Pippa Passes, Kentucky, for UM News.
Share this: Michael Stamper, a.k.a. Nick Stump, performs in Lexington, Kentucky. (Photo via Nick Stump Band Facebook page) In 1987 the Metropolitan Blues All Stars were headliners for an Appalachian cultural gala in Chicago. It was a celebration of Appalshop that featured Roadside Theater, Fiddle King of the South Marion Sumner, renowned banjo player Lee Sexton, and screenings of Appalshop films. Met Blues was fronted by three guys who’d led their own bands earlier. (Hence All Stars.) Two of them, Rodney Hatfield and Mike Stamper, grew up in different East Kentucky coal towns and both cam...