UK history professor Gerald Smith has urged the state to tell the story of the slaves who built and worked at My Old Kentucky Home, not just the people who owned it and the songwriter who made it famous in song. “Until now we’ve been telling half the story,” Smith said. Photo by Tom Eblen | Staff
Tom Eblen is a columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader who writes about life, people and issues in Kentucky. A Lexington native, he was the Herald-Leader's managing editor from 1998 to 2008. Before coming home in 1998, he was a reporter and editor for the Atlanta Journal- Constitution and Associated Press.
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