Tweet
Thought I'd share a link to this very cool book.
Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, 1878.
What's cool about it is that it contains a list of important news and trivia about what was happening in Kentucky, arranged in chronological order. This means that if you're portraying a Kentuckian, you can search for the month and year of the event and get a quick summary of what's been happening. It includes the war years as well as before and after.
For example, I was recently at Perryville on the Farm, where we were portraying June of 1869 in Kentucky. When someone asked what was going on in Lexington lately, I remembered this page which said, "March 8--Velocipedes becoming popular in the towns of Ky," and said I was noticing people on velocipedes. But it also includes the big stuff that would show up in a more typical history book. On that same page, March 13, it notes that the Kentucky legislature refused to ratify the Constitutional amendment giving blacks the right to vote.
So it's a very helpful book for a quick orientation, for Kentucky portrayals, and published close enough to the era that it's not overwhelmed with a 20th or 21st century bias about what was important.
Anyone know of the same type of thing for Georgia or Missouri?
Hank Trent
hanktrent@gmail.com
Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, 1878.
What's cool about it is that it contains a list of important news and trivia about what was happening in Kentucky, arranged in chronological order. This means that if you're portraying a Kentuckian, you can search for the month and year of the event and get a quick summary of what's been happening. It includes the war years as well as before and after.
For example, I was recently at Perryville on the Farm, where we were portraying June of 1869 in Kentucky. When someone asked what was going on in Lexington lately, I remembered this page which said, "March 8--Velocipedes becoming popular in the towns of Ky," and said I was noticing people on velocipedes. But it also includes the big stuff that would show up in a more typical history book. On that same page, March 13, it notes that the Kentucky legislature refused to ratify the Constitutional amendment giving blacks the right to vote.
So it's a very helpful book for a quick orientation, for Kentucky portrayals, and published close enough to the era that it's not overwhelmed with a 20th or 21st century bias about what was important.
Anyone know of the same type of thing for Georgia or Missouri?
Hank Trent
hanktrent@gmail.com
Comment