By: Wes Cunningham, University of Louisville Graduate Student and KHS Winter Intern While researching one of our lantern slide collections for digitization we stumbled across this monument. This image was mixed in with pictures of some of Kentucky’s most famous individuals and sites, including portraits of Daniel Boone and a …
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History Mystery: the War Memorial at Paintsville, Ky.
The Ronald Morgan Postcard Collection (Graphic 5, Kentucky Historical Society) contains a postcard of this wonderfully moving memorial to the fallen soldiers of World War I. I was curious as to the sculptor and the story behind it but could find very little. I know somewhere in Johnson County someone …