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The Fugates, commonly known as the "Blue Fugates" [1] or the "Blue People of Kentucky", are an ancestral family living in the hills of Kentucky starting in the 19th century, where they are known for having a genetic trait that led to the blood disorder methemoglobinemia, causing the skin to appear blue.
In 1936 eastern Kentucky, 19-year-old Cussy Mary Carter works for the New Deal–funded Pack Horse Library Project, delivering reading material to the remote hill people of the Appalachian Mountains. Cussy Mary, sometimes known as Bluet, lives with her coal-miner and labor-organizing father, and feels her work as a librarian honors her long ...
Troublesome Creek in Hindman, Kentucky. Troublesome Creek is a creek in Breathitt, Perry and Knott counties, Kentucky, a fork of the North Fork Kentucky River. [1] It is 41.46 miles (66.72 km) long with a gradient of 8.92 feet per mile (168.9 cm/km), normally free-flowing, and with banks that vary between tree-lined and open.
Kentucky basketball built its storied program on in-state products. After decades out of the limelight, Bluegrass natives are key cogs for UK again. 'Kentucky presence': Bluegrass natives back ...
One hundred and four years ago this month, on Oct. 31, 1919, a white mob in Corbin, Ky., rounded up approximately 200 Black people, drove them onto boxcars, and sent them to Knoxville, Tenn.
Blue baby syndrome, cyanosis in babies; A name for the Tuareg people, from their traditional clothing; A term in the United States to refer members of the Democratic Party (United States) People with argyria, a condition that turns the skin blue; the Blue Man Group, a performing group that performs in blue makeup
The Kentucky basketball Blue-White Game hit the road Saturday night, with Truist Arena on Northern Kentucky University’s campus the setting for the annual scrimmage.
Bryan Station (also Bryan's Station, and often misspelled Bryant's Station) was an early fortified settlement in Lexington, Kentucky.It was located on present-day Bryan Station Road, about three miles (5 km) northeast of New Circle Road, on the southern bank of Elkhorn Creek near Briar Hill Road.