First written for Harper’s and The Century, these essays describe Kentucky’s Blue-Grass country and its people. Allen writes of the rolling pastures and old homesteads, county court day and the state fairs, the Trappist monks of Gethsemani, and a horseback ride through Cumberland Gap. His essay ‘Uncle Tom at Home’ looks back on slavery with a white Kentuckian’s nostalgia that readers today will question.
Graceful regional writing from the author of A Kentucky Cardinal, revealing about the South of the 1880s. Download the free EPUB.