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Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community

Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community

Boyd, Douglas A.
Brundage, W. Fitzhugh

Paperback

Series: Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History

Black American StudiesGeneral World HistoryRegional: South

ISBN10: 0813144337
ISBN13: 9780813144337
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: Sep 19 2013
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. Craw's reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects, and the district was razed to make way for the city's Capital Plaza in the mid-1960s. Douglas A. Boyd provides a record of the vanished neighborhood and its culture, acknowledging the popular misconceptions about the community while also offering a richer and more balanced view of its past. Using oral histories, firsthand recollections, and accounts from official sources, Boyd constructs a case study that highlights the ways in which community memory is formed and demonstrates the importance of these memories to folklorists and historians.

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