Kentucky

<p><span class="deck"> Shocking, exuberant, exalted, the camp meeting answered the pioneers' demand for religion and helped shape the character of the West.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Alone in his empty mansion, the venerable Cassius Clay took unto himself a scandalously youthful bride; when the posse came for him, they met more than their match</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Concerning the long life, fast times, and astonishing fecundity of Man o’ War</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A few dazzling words about that emerging metropolis, delivered in 1871 by Congressman J. Proctor Knott. Edited for 1971 visitors by David G. McCullough</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> She lived only six years, but it was a history-packed career</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">A small but dependable pleasure of travel is encountering such blazons of civic pride as “Welcome to the City of Cheese, Chairs, Children, and Churches!”</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">THE FOUNDER, CONSIDERING HIS RACE A FAILURE, TOOK HIS OWN LIFE. BUT HIS CONTEST SURVIVED HIM, ENDURING SEVERAL BRUSHES WITH EXTINCTION TO BECOME AMERICA’S LONGEST-RUNNING SPORTS TRADITION. IT TURNS 125 THIS SPRING.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> John Filson first brought the frontier hero to notice, giving him fine words that made him the idol of the romanticists</span> </p>