Bluegrass Country, part 2

One of the tragic thing I have been in the spirit of Kentucky was this isolation I

wouldn't go do it. The only governor in a state that had been assassinated Oh

I guess maybe in a state. With him go was an

office approximately one day. People you know running

through the streets screaming yelling are going to assassinate him.

There's a song called assassination with him go.

Go.

Very sharp.

William go they sure are.

I remember that very well. Race for the.

Election was in. November

1999 that my second

side had their buttons out as the two candidates.

And there was much excitement here

with election.

On the first count but I have had. My few go and

Democrat contest elections. And on the

recount but they gave him a large. You are.

The mountain man and in my Couldn't they came to Franklin on horseback.

With I don't know I didn't see that but from their older man dome about

had two guns but I thought of God the.

First time the cult. Was like the government. First time I

called out he was shot on St. outbuilding sharp mind.

Did nobody see it. One man in Britain never heard anything much

about my first experiences.

China I believe there are standards here that trial by the court house

which was never trying to

foul up it was instrumental in the killing our government.

We're supposed to go back. And it was trying this

fella and oh so very much

from a body man and he was such a nice fellow and so pale and all my

sympathy all went to him and I turned over and it just broke

my heart to see him like that was my first trial of course. I

was a little girl about 10 years old and that he

remembers of anything that happened in doors down I had been here

before and we were down there for it on the lower end of the county and of course people

don't. Back then they didn't go to town to rebuild. Their

children didn't and they didn't get to go. But that stands out in my memory.

When I came here of course the dominant industry of the community was

University of Kentucky. We had no we had no factories are endless trees as

you think of them today and

even at that time from a better standpoint was the largest loose leaf

tobacco market in the world.

And this continued debate over the years and University of

Kentucky and the tobacco.

And Lexington's trade territory reaching 100 miles into the

southeastern mountains 100 miles south

and spreading our trade territory at Frankfort

twenty seven miles west of here and at Carrollton up on the Ohio

River about 65 miles from here was our trade

territory. And of course it was the largest city of that area and even is

today much larger of course in comparative towns at that time.

And Lexington originally a tobacco retail

Saturnus two tional and educational center. And it

wasn't until about 15 years ago that we got any other type

of industry manufacturing concern. We've never had anything here that

employed over possibly 100 persons.

And.

Need was felt here the town was growing and people were moving in here from the mountain sections and the

outlying rural areas. And if

employment wasn't provided for them then a lot of them were own charity as was the case during the

Depression although during the Depression we only had 600 families in Lexington on relief

which shows it's a good sound town. But anyway the need of

industry was felt and we establish what we call the Lexington industrial Foundation

which purchased originally 150 acres of land

and then later I think 65 or 85 additional acres

and that was the beginning. Well actually that was not the

beginning. Right after the war in

1946 and 47 We got

the General Electric Company plant here and then later

our During the war one of two small industries that were in here Evans products

coming out of Detroit. Harvey Hubble I think was the name of the electrical

CERN had a war plan here but anyway industrial

development started right after the Second World War. We think of the big new

industries of course IBM been the largest Square D Company train company

Westinghouse ABB right that with the collet it West

is not Westinghouse Electric Westinghouse air brake.

And I came here the papers two papers actually had about 11 that in circulation.

Now the two papers I have about. Were crowded 90000 which will

give you some idea of the growth of universities

in the neighborhood of 15 hundred students. Now they see that I think

11000 in Bergen County have backed out.

NIGHT THE NIGHT OF there were three distilleries sat and played this

desperate Peacock distiller and George Weiss distillery.

Bob and I did it in nineteen hundred and twenty of the

SAVAK latest Arizona wanted an operation at that time and

and Christmas Eve. Christmas

Eve I'd say. Sam played Astaire was destroyed before and I

lived about a mile from it. Have a good eye. And

see it. Bird was

alleged to still regarded cat it

as they had to make a whiskey before probation.

Yeah I remember that very well Darren Stokowski was at least I thin he was a

newspaper commentator and able fellow and I shall never forget a statement he made that never fear for the

republic because it would make a bad law.

We don't enforce it. And certainly that applied to.

Prohibition. There there well. It was a critical

situation you're going to discipline in force that's. First Kentucky has always been opposed

to.

Moonshine. It was greatly misunderstood because the Hill don't

produce good corn. And the man had nothing. Else to do with these

corn so he made. A beverage out of it and he disconcerted or duties

right then won it. During Prohibition days if not a very profitable market for it.

Actually I have seen with my own eyes when I faced a mountain where you could put 50 cents on the log.

And then disappear for a while then they came back it be a vital moonshining.

The Mint Julep is traditional. First the Mint Julep is a

is a drink that's been some question of how to make it but it's simple you just take it.

Usually with frosted glass but now the modern way has put it in a deep freeze and

take it out until the a license and that and a little

sugar and pour whiskey over the ice.

Usually use with a straw with this very good meat in it. Now the old idea question

I'm in the bottom of the glass has been exploded I mean it's the aroma from the mint that you really

makes it palatable and that's a very fine drink under a tree in the shade in the hot summer weather.

We can cook it Colonel Lewis today as I'm. Done

along the same order as the original of the back in the old days one of the

most important people that could be appointed only govern the staff. Were his

aides. And they aided him in more ways than one. He was a

bodyguard which was a pretty important person. And

he was had a voice in the military which was very important. The

military was the most important age in the government that time.

And. Consequently had to be appointed on the governor's

staff as his aide was considered the highest honor that could be paid an individual

and is still considered that way. And that's that's the argument that

the original Kentucky Colonels had to buy their own

uniform and if it cost a man quite a bit to be a Kentucky colonel in the

1830s and 1840s and on down because he was.

He could design his own uniform and.

Some of them now are more or less comical by modern standards but

they took the verse seriously and centrist and the difference in the

governor's time governors have only given out a few of them. Very few kernel

ships and then it's an honor to get one on the other hand. Other governors are giving them

that wholesale and they are appreciated. Never

Europeans have asked if it.

Is possible to get a Kentucky Colonel ship far when I have

and it's been amazing to me just the importance they attach to it they'll have a dinner party to

present to Colonel shipments is essentially not a rape.

Private Club the name they take up donations once a year and have one party on

derby day and they give the the money goes to charity I mean whatever they raise goes to

charity.

The next gentleman over when I think about it was true. They can do is

to convert. King Solomon Solomon

took care of all the sick people during the epidemic of cholera here in the state of Kentucky.

King Solomon was only a white man and it was bought by a negro slave.

King Solomon became one of Kentucky

favorite sons. After being so public auction.

He was a he was a white man. Ford Lexington Kentucky. Here's a story

about King Solomon that you probably haven't heard.

He was bought by coming. He

had had smallpox and recovered

and. They had the great epidemics

and King Solomon good to end all beggars he was a

big strong man but he just wouldn't work.

He stayed every community had one but he was a superduper

although he would not work and he was before the judge

every every every Monday morning practice. We can't.

Result where we put in you're famous for his professional legacy.

And then came the great epidemic.

And king Solomon was a new. Two small pox and

he buried the single handed all of the day at

around Lexington and with the result of when the epidemic was over

they erected the money which was a usual thing

but he was actually bald in those days you could sell a vagrant

if he had been before the court a certain number of times he was considered.

Incurable or. Professional beggar and he was

he was purchased by a colored woman. White man part is my color.

And.

They have no in.

Their heart to do.

This.

My grandfather had a very large farm and

what we call two arches and two houses. And we always

gathered the particular fruit far the siding

and in the fall of the year when the dampers begun to get rain the kind with the juice

that made the cider and the old me all set out under a tree I can see it

now. And we gathered those nice apples they didn't just peachy in anything they

had to be perfect good and right.

And then putting in large part in the apples and ground that fresh

shatter and we drank it right there after that meal. Oh my.

Just for a moment was so good. Then we put it in barrels and put it in the

old cellars we call the cellars back then.

And that kept for vinegar you see for the homemade dinner.

But that Sally was good just as long as it's staged.

Really it really began to firmly and by you better not drink some of the main

things that Kentucky's noted father beaten biscuits which are

made on a machine that they roll it looks like the rollers on a

washing machine except it's a model slab Anyway the beaten biscuits and our High am

and we consider all I am I am that's been cured and hung for two

years or more and then you you bake it very slowly and if it

has white spots through it that sand that it's an excellent Ohio

am people of an hour. We have sent them to New England and different