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Kay Collier McLaughlin reflects on her life and Paris history in the 1940’s and 50’s. Recalling her father’s career as a Paris High School Football coach and later at the University of Kentucky. Born and raised in Paris, Kay had deep connections to…

Mrs. Pat Simpson, daughter of Spears and Sallie (Lockheart) Catesby, discusses her parents, the Quakers, activism, and growing up in Paris, KY.

Shane Witt, of the Historical Committee for the Ruddles Mills United Methodist Church, describes the 1820 founding of one of the oldest continuously attended churches in Bourbon County KY. The founding pastor, Josia Whittaker, was a Methodist circuit…

Nellie Jean Brown moved from Harrison County, Kentucky at an early age and grew up in Brentsville in the countryside of Bourbon County. Her father was a sharecropper through the 1940s and 50s and Nellie recalls life on the farm with her mother and…

Mr. Lee Nguyen discusses his experience in immigration to America from Vietnam.

Kay Collier McLaughlin reflects on her life and Paris history in the 1940’s and 50’s. Recalling her father’s career as a Paris High School Football coach and later at the University of Kentucky. Born and raised in Paris, Kay had deep connections to…

Mrs. Pat Simpson, daughter of Spears and Sallie (Lockheart) Catesby, discusses her parents, the Quakers, activism, and growing up in Paris, KY.

Betty Overly is a life-long Bourbon County native, born on January 20, 1939. Ms. Overly grew up on her family farm where she remembers attending Sunday school and going on weekend visits into Paris and Lexington to sell farm goods and shop. After…

This picture was taken on 2nd Street in Paris, Kentucky. The brick wall is still standing.