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Bluegrass funeral / Joseph G. Anthony.

Summary:

From the Cheapside slave markets of the 1850's to a lynch mob shouting for blood outside the 1920 Lexington courthouse, Joseph G. Anthony remembers and creates a vivid and dramatic Kentucky. Anthony's characters bear witness to it all: feuds over "floater" votes in the 1870's lead to burnings and killings; efforts to force black farmers off good land cause tragedy in 1930's horse country; two mourning mothers, one aristocratic, one a former "fancy" girl, find solace in the decade after the Civil War; interracial lovers seek refuge in the only Colored Reading Room in 1920's Lexington; a girl hitchhiker discovers courage in an old song; an aging black farmer determines to go down fighting; an escaped slave hides out at the Phoenix Hotel; and a bluegrass divorcee sardonically views the scene at her ex's funeral.

Record details

ISBN: 9781936138555
ISBN: 1936138557
Physical Description: 153 p. ; 23 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Nicholasville, Ky. : Wind Publications, c2012.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

The naming : Lexington, Kentucky, April 1871 -- Dancing Benny : Lexington, Kentucky, 1858 -- Quilted : Perry County, Kentucky, November 1980 -- All the news : Flora, Kentucky, 1959 -- Bowl of cherries : in the mountains, 1996 -- Bluegrass funeral : Lexington, Kentucky, 2000 -- Godard County : Eating scenery : August 2007 ; Vote burning : August 1874 ; Horse country : August 1934 ; The Colored Reading Room : July 1920.