By: H. Scott Hankla Introduction In my paternal grandfather’s old cherry desk was a worn, dusty portfolio made of heavy black cardboard, and on its cover and back were engravings of a building with the words “New York Crystal Palace for the Exhibition of All Nations.” Inside the portfolio was a...
The Land We Dreamed. By Joe Survant. (2014. Pp. 133. $19.95. Paper. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 663 South Limestone Street, Lexington KY 40508-4008. www.kentuckypress.com) ISBN: 978-0-8131-4458-0. As our pedigree charts grow backward toward Kentucky’s early settlement days, and as we celebrate the “memory” of those we have never met, the...
Many-Storied House. By George Ella Lyon. (2013. Pp. 121. $19.95. Paper. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 663 South Limestone Street, Lexington KY 40508-4008. www.kentuckypress.com) ISBN: 978-0-8131-4261-6. In this newest title by award winning author, George Ella Lyon, readers are transported back through time and family memories by way of poetry....
