Lexington is known as the “Horse Capital of the World,” but the city’s history runs much deeper. Seventh-generation Kentuckian and Lexington native Foster Ockerman Jr. offers an updated history.
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Eighteen-year-old Serenity Ashdown has a brilliant mind: she counts, calculates, and analyzes everything, all the time. Awkward. When her father suddenly disappears, Serenity follows his trail to a parallel dimension. The feds on the other side claim to want to help her go home, if she helps them reconstruct the right codes for the portal […]
After five decades of life at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky and ten published books of poetry, his A Matter of the Heart mingles reflections, meditations, insights, and wanderings with outward experiences in nature, community, and sketches of monks-saintly, comical, or strange-poetic moments, for a multi-colored, diverse, and surprising display of what it is […]
A smart, funny memoir exploring the evolution of a man and his relationship with his daughters as they grow up in the grips of the equestrian life. When Chad Oldfather found himself the parent of a toddler who, out of nowhere, became obsessed with horses, he had no idea what awaited. With his younger daughters […]
A significant life is more simple than you think. In a culture where bigger is seen as better, it’s easy to wonder if your quick prayer between errands or the short note you text a friend means anything in God’s kingdom.
“For years now, Mark Reese has been entertaining Citizen Voice and Times readers with columns about his most beloved pastimes – hunting, fishing, and observing nature in all its wonder. Whether he’s hunting or wading streams, Mark writes poetically of his forays into fields, forests, and waterways. He persistently nudges others to get outside and […]
A Home for Friendless Women follows the Home’s benevolent benefactors and several of the fallen women who live there through their daily religious lessons and hard work while grappling with a terrible secret that has the power to unravel the Home entirely.
Theiss explores the hidden history of her hometown of LaGrange using oral histories she has recorded from locals over the last 18 years. Stories highlight the life of a segregated community where time lingered over decades, simmering and stewing in a pot of relationships and interactions that have been forgotten.
The poems in A Field of First Things are evocations of experience, attempts to clarify, preserve, and share first things.
For the first time, the authors offer a concise and easy to read history of not only the origins and development of the Kentucky Reel but also the early history of baitcasting and bass fishing in Kentucky. Lavishly illustrated and featuring examples of some of the rarest Kentucky Reels, this book is a welcome introduction […]
1666: A Novel, her second work of historical fiction based on interviewing tribal elders, researching colonial documents, and studying the Patawomeck language, tells the story of her people and their unlikely survival due to the courage of two Patawomeck women.