Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community by Boyd, Douglas A.

Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813144337)

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Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community by Boyd, Douglas A.

Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community

$24.95
Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community by Boyd, Douglas A.

Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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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

Author: Douglas A. Boyd
ISBN-10: 0813144337
ISBN-13: 9780813144337
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2013
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
By Douglas A. Boyd
By Douglas A. Boyd
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Douglas A. Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky, is a coeditor of Community Memories: A Glimpse of African American Life in Frankfort, Kentucky.

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