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Heritage Days set for September 8 -12th

Aug 19, 2015 at 09:43 am by admin

Editor's Note: more events have been added to this week's festivities - Mayor Phyllis Campbell invites visitors to stop by City Hall on S. Jefferson Street (behind the Hickman.... Read More

That Was the Week That Was: the Arc of History, Shaken

Jun 30, 2015 at 02:38 pm by admin

Editorial (Clinton, KY- June 30, 2015) The beaches at Isle of Palm, Charleston, South Carolina are 755 miles from my desk. That was where I was enjoying the surf early in th.... Read More

Butterfly Rose entertain with music, history, humor

Apr 15, 2015 at 04:09 pm by admin

Butterfly Rose wowed a small crowd on Saturday evening in Clinton with a musical history lesson. The Americana duo, Carol Zamora and Kaye Pryor, are Nashville residents. Kaye.... Read More

Golden Age of Hickman County "The Difficult Years" now out

Apr 09, 2015 at 02:36 pm by admin

LaDonna Latham is a student of local history. As a past president of the Hickman County Historical & Genealogical Society, Latham has cataloged much of the history of this.... Read More

Heritage Week Celebration Planned

Apr 08, 2015 at 02:13 pm by admin

Hickman County is no ordinary place. A century ago its western edge was kidnapped by the river, and sent to live with Missouri. Columbus was a Confederate stronghold yet it co.... Read More

Restored Coca Cola building to house microbrewery

Jul 24, 2014 at 02:56 pm by admin

Paducah developers Ed and Meagan Musselman are bringing a dream to life. Their work continues on the old Coca-Cola building in Paducah. Ed Musselman told the Jackson Purchase.... Read More

Jackson Purchase History Buried in Collapsed Building

Mar 06, 2013 at 04:33 pm by admin

Jackson Purchase History Buried in Collapsed Building  Clinton, KY. Feb. 12, 2013 At 1:28 a.m., Monday morning, February 11, a major historical landmark of Clinton, Ken.... Read More

Kroger Company: a History of Innovation, Unionization, Consumer Research

Jan 29, 2013 at 04:33 pm by admin

Kroger, with over 3600 stores, is the largest conventional supermarket chain in the US and the second largest grocery retailer after Wal-Mart.  The chain has been around.... Read More

Boozy bullet blasting Bluecoats jailed in Falls City

Oct 05, 2012 at 04:32 pm by admin

    (October 5, 2012) -  On this date in 1862, as many as a dozen Union soldiers were locked up in Louisville and accused of public drunkenness and shooti.... Read More

Discovery Park in Union City TN gets hospital sponsor

Aug 21, 2012 at 03:47 pm by admin

UNION CITY, TN – August  21  Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City (BMH-UC) has become a Founding Circle sponsor at Discovery Park of America. BMH-UC will be t.... Read More

Kentucky's state song originally told sad slave story

Jun 19, 2011 at 07:16 pm by admin

The choice of My Old Kentucky Home as the state anthem must stand as the greatest irony in the history of state songs.  Stephen Foster’s homage to Uncle Tom&rsquo.... Read More

True Tales of Old-Time Politics Not a Kiddie Book

Jun 19, 2009 at 11:00 am by admin

            The perfect Father’s Day gift for Kentucky dads interested in our state history is Berry Craig’s.... Read More

Nothing ever happens in Clinton, Kentucky.

Apr 15, 2009 at 11:56 am by admin

            At least, that’s what I thought before I moved to this tiny town almost as far as one can get from Fra.... Read More