Kentucky Footnotes is Byron Crawford’s third collection of columns from his 29 years as The Courier-Journal’s Kentucky Columnist, following Crawford’s Journal (1986) and Kentucky Stories (1994).
Crawford spent his career on the state’s back roads, finding the story within the story, from a blind trumpet player later featured on Oprah to an owner of one of Elvis’s cars.
Charles Kuralt called him the best storyteller in Kentucky, if you count only the ones who tell the truth, and this collection gathers some of his most memorable work.
Published 2010
272 pages
$24.95