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Looking Back: The Shepherd of Danville
The Rev. Dr. Edward Melvin Green, known as the “Shepherd of Danville” and “pastor to the town,” served as minister at The Presbyterian Church ...
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Looking Back
Editor’s note: Research for this article was by local historian Mike Dennis of Parksville. A Danville man is credited for saving the lives of his ...
by Brenda Edwards, Friday, March 6, 2020 6:52 pm
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18 local women served during World War II
A Danville woman, who served in the U.S.Navy, was among 18 young women from Boyle County who joined the armed forces during World War II. ...
by Brenda Edwards, Friday, February 28, 2020 6:51 pm
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Looking Back: Little Dutch colony in Boyle County
(Editor’s note: Information about the New Austria settlement in southwestern Boyle County in the late 1800s was in the “Penciler” column in the Kentucky Advocate ...
by Brenda Edwards, Friday, February 21, 2020 6:57 pm
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Looking Back: Tom Ashe found pot of silver
A 50-year-old man who lived on Beech Ridge off Mackville Pike found a treasure in May 1928 while walking through the woods with his dog ...
by Brenda Edwards, Friday, February 14, 2020 5:19 pm
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Woods were political, religious leaders from Danville
The Rev. John Edmund Wood was pastor of First Baptist Church at Second and Walnut streets for 31 years. While in Danville, he also was ...
by Brenda Edwards, Friday, February 7, 2020 5:23 pm
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Looking Back; The Slaughter family
Editor’s note: Information for this article was taken from The Advocate-Messenger archives and research by local genealogist Carolyn Crabtree. Simeon “Sim” Drake Slaughter was ...
by Brenda Edwards, Friday, January 31, 2020 5:25 pm
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Advocate featured fox hunting stories through many decades
Indications of the renewal of the fox chase, a sport for years abandoned, which was the favorite of the frontier Kentuckian, was reported in a ...
by Brenda Edwards, Friday, January 24, 2020 2:51 pm
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Looking back: Culton family put down roots in Boyle in mid-1800s
Editor’s note: Research for this article was found in The Advocate-Messenger archives, census records and from David Crain, a relative of the Culton family. Three ...
by Brenda Edwards, Friday, January 17, 2020 4:46 pm
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Looking back: Danville paper shared Kentucky Gazette excerpts in 18th century
Columns with excerpts taken from the Kentucky Gazette newspaper in the late 1700s and early 1800s appeared in The Advocate-Messenger and other state newspapers in ...
