Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Gallopade International
Keywords: kentucky, experience, activity, book
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2004-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0793394619
ISBN-13: 9780793394616
Author: Mary E. Wharton
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: kentucky, nature, studies, ferns, wildflowers, guide
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1971-07
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0813112346
ISBN-13: 9780813112343
More than 500 excellent color photos and easy-to-follow keys will help you identify nearly 700 wildflower and fern species found in Kentucky and surrounding states (including Southern Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, Western West Virginia and Virginia, Northern Tennessee, and Eastern Missouri).
Author: Geoffrey R. Walden
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: kentucky, america, images, confederates, remembering
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-10-29
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738567329
ISBN-13: 9780738567327
For Kentuckians, the Civil War was truly a conflict of brother against brother. As a slave state bordering the United States and the Confederate States, Kentucky had ties to both the North and South. Although its state government remained in the Union, the people of Kentucky were divided in sentiment, prompting some 40,000 Kentuckians to leave their homes to fight for Southern independence. When Confederate soldiers eventually returned from the country’s bloodiest war, they were held in high regard by their fellow Kentuckians. To be counted among the state’s Confederate veterans wa
Authors:Mary E. Wharton, Roger W. Barbour,
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: kentucky, studies, nature, trees, shrubs
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 1994-12-02
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 081311294X
ISBN-13: 9780813112947
The most authoritative guide to the 282 species found in Kentucky and neighboring states (including Ohio, West Virginia, Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana, Eastern Missouri, Western North Carolina, Western Virginia, Western Pennsylvania, and Southern Michigan). Nearly 1200 superb photos, 260 in full color, show not only leaves and bark, but also buds, flowers, and fruits to enable you to recognize trees at any season.
Author: Jeffrey Scott Holland
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: kentucky, legends, secrets, local, guide, travel, weird
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-05-06
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1402754388
ISBN-13: 9781402754388
"Best Travel Series of the Year 2006!"—Booklist What’s weird around here?That’s a question Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman have enjoyed asking for years—and their offbeat sense of curiosity led them to create the bestselling phenomenon, Weird N.J. Now the weirdness has spread throughout key locales in the U.S. Each fun and intriguing volume offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don’t venture—it’s chock-full of oddball curiosities, ghostly places, local legends, crazy characters, cursed roads, and peculiar roadside attractions. What’s NOT shocking
Author: Charles K. Wolfe
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: kentucky, country, music, folk
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1996-11-26
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0813108799
ISBN-13: 9780813108797
Now available in paper with a new afterward, Kentucky Country is a lively tour of the state’s indigenous music, from the days of string bands through hillbilly, western swing, gospel, bluegrass, and honkey-tonk to through the Nashville Sound and beyond. Through personal interviews with many of the living legends of Kentucky music, Charles K. Wolfe illuminates a fascinating and important area of American culture. The list of country music stars who hail from Kentucky is a long and glittering one. Red Foley, Bill Monroe, Loretta Lynn, Tom T. Hall, the Judds, Dwight Yaokum, Billy Ray Cyrus,
Author: Dottie Brown
Publisher: First Avenue Editions
Keywords: usa, kentucky
Number of Pages: 84
Published: 2002-03
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0822507811
ISBN-13: 9780822507819
Introduces the geography, history, people, industries, and other highlights of Kentucky.
