Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part 1 Overview and Comparisons
1 Central Kentucky's "Athens of the West" Image in the Nation and in History James C. Klotter 11
2 Putting Kentucky in Its Place Stephen Aron 36
3 Kentucky's "Athens of the West" Viewed in a "Distant Mirror" Shearer Davis Bowman 53
Part 2 Facets of Life
4 Slavery and Abolition in Kentucky: "'Patter-rollers' were everywhere" Gerald L. Smith 75
5 "Mrs. Boone, I presume?" In Search of the Idea of Womanhood in Kentucky's Early Years Randolph Hollingsworth 93
6 "A richer land never seen yet": Horse Country and the "Athens of the West" Maryjean Wall 131
7 Three Central Kentuckians, the "Bone" of Political Office, and the Kentucky Exodus, 1792-1852 Mark V. Wetherington 158
Part 3 Science, Arts, and Education
8 Jewels in the Crown: Civic Pride and Educational Institutions in the Bluegrass, 1792-1852 John R. Thelin 181
9 Horace Holley and the Straggle for Kentucky's Mind and Soul Tom Eblen Mollie Eblen 204
10 Living Hills: The Frontier Science of Rafinesque Matthew F. Clarke 222
11 Lexington Limners: Portrait Painters in the "Athens of the West" Estill Curtis Pennington 240
12 Public Music Making, Concert Life, and Composition in Kentucky during the Early National Period Nikos Pappas 264
13 Benjamin Henry Latrobe and Neoclassical Lexington Patrick Snadon 286
Afterword Jim Gray 344
List of Contributors 347
Index 351