By: Dr. Gay Sweely The house itself was … peeking stoically out from behind two overgrown oak trees …. It was a timeworn stone structure … with an addition thoughtlessly tacked on the back. That part was painted a dingy white … Indeed, the house hadn’t been lived in … …
By: Michael M. Wood “Our Company saw two Indians in the wilderness; but we all got through safe” William L. Farrow in a letter to his wife Betsy, September 22, 1794 Kentucky in 1794 was still in the midst of war. The bloody defeat of the Kentucky Militia at the Battle …
By: Clifford W. Lanham Thomas Lanham most likely was a typical young man of his time. Like many young men of 1776, he felt he had a calling to serve his colony, Maryland. There was an air of English resentment throughout the colonies. A strong desire to be free from …