Musings of a political, social, cultural, religious, and/or historical nature from near Milepost 606 on the Left Bank of the Ohio River, located at Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky.
Never married, liberal Democrat, born in 1960, opinionated but generally pleasant, member of the Episcopal Church. Graduate of Prestonia Elementary, Durrett High, and Spalding University; the first two now-closed Jefferson County Public Schools, the latter a very small liberal arts college in downtown Louisville affiliated with the Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity of Nazareth.
My vocation and avocation is politics. My favorite pastime is driving the backroads of Kentucky and southern Indiana, visiting small towns, political hangouts, courthouses, churches, and cemeteries.
You are welcome to ride with me sometime.
March 28, 1992 - East Regionals - The Greatest College Basketball Game Ever Played
Daniel Boone entering through the Cumberland Gap along the Wilderness Road
Linus reading from the Gospel of Saint Luke
The Second Chapter of the Gospel of Saint Luke
Flag of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Salt River watershed
The Salt watershed drains all of Bullitt, Marion, Nelson, Spencer, and Washington counties; and parts of Anderson, Boyle, Casey, Hardin, Henry, Jefferson, Larue, Mercer, and Shelby counties
Benson Creek near Red Bridge
photo by Gene Burch of Frankfort
The seal of the former City of Louisville
Now seen mostly on T-shrits sold along Bardstown Road.
The flag of the former City of Louisville
Must Reading for any politician or public servant
Most politicans never read it. That's unfortunate.
A photo showing the original Clock Tower on City Hall
The original tower was built in 1873 and destroyed by fire in 1875. This photo belonging to the Filson Club is the only known photo of the original Clock Tower.
Cuban children in Shively with the Flag of Cuba
September, 1963. The statue has since been dismantled by the City of Shively and its whereabouts are unknown. I last saw it in 2004 or thereabouts.
The United States Supreme Court
The Court faces the east front of the United States Capitol
Crossing into Paradise along the WK Parkway
Actors Theater of Louisville
housed in the old Bank of Louisville building on West Main Street
A map of Camp Zachary Taylor
Preston Street Road is along the bottom; Beargrass Creek to the top; Eastern Parkway on the left; Durrett Lane (approximately) on the right.
The home of my step great grandmother Maggie Church
She lived here for nearly 70 years. She is the mother of my grandfather Hockensmith's half-siblings, Aunt Mildred Smith of Clarksville, Indiana and Uncle Lee Roy Hockensmith of Paducah, Kentucky
Jesus feeding the 5000. What a picnic.
From the United Methodist Church collection of Eularia Clark
LBJ signing one of the Civil Rights Bills of the 1960s.
Mr. Gayle Shields
Earth Science Teacher, War Veteran, Extraordinary Person
The Sallie Phillips Durrett Auditorium at Louisville Male High School
Male relocated in 1991 from its Brook and Breck campus to that of my high school alma mater, Sallie Phillips Durrett High School, at 4409 Preston Highway. It has changed a lot in 30 years.
See Rock City
See Seven States. I can not tell you the number of times I've stood on this overlook searching out South Park Hill in southern Jefferson County Kentucky, to no avail
The obelisk at 7th and Main
Commemorating Richard Chenoweth's fort in Louisville, 1780.
This is the log house, built by the Howard family in 1795.
This is the building in which was founded the predecessor of my college alma mater, Spalding University. Nazareth Academy was founded here by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in 1814.
The Louisville Times
The final edition was published February 14, 1987, very shortly after the Bingham's sold their empire
Lady Bird Johnson
Buried 07/15/2007 in the hill country near Stonewall, Texas, alongside her husband who was a great leader of the experiment in democracy we call America
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