What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table?
An author eager to discuss groundbreaking research into a facinating slice of the Gilded Age in Kentucky (and copies of his new book, of course!)
Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book?
History lovers, for sure. But also, readers interested in very human stories about ideals and shortcomings; noble instincts and blinding prejudices all rolled together inside very real people. This is a 360-degree view of what it meant to preserve Kentucky history in the late 1800s.
Could you please tell us something curious about you and/or your book?
Although the founding era of the Filson Historical Society is the centerpiece of the book, readers will be surprised how far and wide the telling of that story ranges — the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893; Louisville’s famous public parks system; Native Nations history; the Civil War; Enid Yandell’s Daniel Boone statue; the Ku Klux Klan; Jim Crow; Daughters of the American Revolution; the Tornado of 1890, and more. The Filson was in the middle of it all!
Is this your first time participating in Kentucky Book Festival? If yes – what are you looking forward to the most? If you’ve participated before – what was your favorite experience at the Festival?
This will be my first time participating. I look forward to meeting book lovers and history afficianados from across the state (and beyond!) I hope I have written an accessible and entertaining book about American history that readers will enjoy. So I am eager to talk about it more.
