| Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community Contributor(s): Boyd, Douglas A. (Author), Brundage, W. Fitzhugh (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0813144337 ISBN-13: 9780813144337 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | Social History - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 976.943 |
| Series: Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Kentucky - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |