October 18, 2012 - 2:11pm
Take that costume out for a test drive, folks, as the Louisville Free Public Library hosts Once Upon a Time: A Storybook Halloween tomorrow, Friday, October 19th at 6pm. Get the family gussied up and head out to the Main branch for games and goodies galore.
My daughter is cuter than yours. I know this. It’s a fact. Her little round face is a creamy plain of feathery skin; dark, strawberry-blonde hair bounces all about her shoulders, catching the sun like a spray of molten rose gold. No living creature could possess eyes...
October 18, 2012 - 2:00pm
Louisville: Did you know? is a weekly cartoon illustrating facts about Louisville and Kentucky. This week we are in a hurry!
October 18, 2012 - 1:35pm
"Dits and dahs" are the sounds created by Morse Code. Dots, of course, are the dots of braille. Learn all about Morse Code and the braille code--and try a little coding yourself! This hands-on program takes place at APH with a visit to the nearby Thomas Edison House. The event is free,...
October 18, 2012 - 1:10pm
The best-selling author of ‘Matterhorn’, Karl Marlantes now brings his latest release exploring the world of combat to Carmichael’s Bookstore. Join him tomorrow night, Friday October 19th, for a presentation of ‘What It is Like to Go to War’ starting at 7pm.
War is something that needs no elaboration. Or, at the least, very little commentary from my snarky tongue. It’s a small word, one that rather just slides out of the mouth, very final and straightforward – like shutting a lid or closing a door. There is nothing fussy...
October 17, 2012 - 3:57pm
In the days before the Civil War ended in 1865, a main track of the Underground Railroad ran through Louisville, where a substantial community of slaves who had won their freedom, along with sympathetic whites, helped Southern fugitives find Northern freedom.
At dusk on a brutally hot September evening, I’m standing on the banks of the Ohio River at the point where 36th Street would run into the river, if not for the floodwall that separates this stretch of the Louisville Riverwalk from Portland. Cottonwoods tower overhead, some with...
