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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.
Paul Karason (November 14, 1950 – September 23, 2013) was an American from Bellingham, Washington, whose skin was a purple-blue color. [ 1 ] Karason was fair skinned and freckled until the early 1990s.
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 ...
Among Kentucky’s taxpayer-funded rehabilitation options is a network of 15 facilities — eight for men and seven for women — created about a decade ago and known as Recovery Kentucky. It represents the state’s central drug treatment effort, admitting thousands of addicts per year.
61st Governor of Kentucky; 49th Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky and Attorney General of Kentucky Born in Dawson Springs: Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) US Supreme Court Justice [40] Born and reared in Louisville [40] John C. Breckinridge (1821–1875) Vice President of the United States [41] Born just outside Lexington [41] John Y. Brown Jr ...
A visibly emotional Rick Pitino, back at Rupp Arena donned in Kentucky blue for the first time in decades, was a fitting finale Friday night to a Big Blue Madness event that honored the greatness ...
Kentucky’s Rob Dillingham and Antonio Reeves led the Wildcats with 16 and 15 points, respectively. Other notable stats The court-storming at Colonial Life Arena is expected to draw a $100,000 ...
Marcellus Jerome Clarke was born in Franklin, Kentucky, in 1844. At age 17 in 1861 he enlisted as M. Jerome Clarke in the 4th Kentucky Infantry, 1st Kentucky "Orphan" Brigade, Confederate States Army (CSA). While with the 4th Kentucky Clarke was captured at Fort Donelson and later escaped from Camp Morgan.