Watch Here In the fall of 2022, I took part in a collaborative examination of the music and meaning behind Kentucky’s State Song produced by Kentucky to the World. With poet Hannah Drake and musicians Harry Pickens and Ben Sollee and a live audience of people who love Kentucky, we tried to understand the hold […]
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Explore regional history with our Spotlight Series, which brings three engaging talks from local speakers and authors to our Newport Branch. Wrapping up Spotlight Series is another look at Kentucky’s history, specifically its state song. Emily Bingham, author of My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic Song, will discuss the […]
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American Myth/American Reality 2022/2023 Theme “MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME” In her new book, “My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song,” historian Emily Bingham untangles and reassesses the legacy of this popular tune. From its origin as a blackface minstrel sensation penned by Stephen Foster to its role as […]
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An Evening with Author Emily Bingham | March 16 | 6 to 7 pm Our Winter 2023 “Power and Possibility” series explores the intersection of art and power, examining how humans use stories, music, and art to interpret our histories, our communities, and ourselves. Humanities subjects to be addressed include history, anthropology, and creative writing. […]
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The 17th annual Kentucky Women’s Book Festival will feature several authors Saturday, March 4th, 2023 virtually on Microsoft Teams 10am-1pm. The festival will be recorded and posted afterwards. Register: https://bit.ly/3vDYzfY
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Wednesday, January 11, 2023 – 6:00pm This virtual event is free but registration is required.Click here to register If you decide to attend and to purchase books, we ask that you purchase from Malaprop’s. When you do this you make it possible for us to continue hosting author events and you keep more dollars in […]
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In Conversation with Michael Washburn, author of a 33 1/3 volume on Tom Petty’s 1985 LP, Southern Accents. Special Guest, musical artist Heather Summers. 950 Barrett Avenue, 40204 Sponsored by WFPK and Carmichael’s Bookstore. Free to all!
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Emily Bingham in Conversation with Eric King JUNE 8, 2022 @ 7PM, RIOT BOOK CELLAR 111 N.3RD STREET, BARDSTOWN, KY 40004 Join us for a conversation between Louisville author and historian Emily Bingham and Eric King, WHAS anchor and Bardstown native. They will discuss Bingham’s new book about the unsung histories of our state song, […]
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Join poet Crystal Wilkinson (Perfect Black) and historian Emily Bingham (My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song) as they read from and discuss their latest works, which offer fresh new perspectives on the Bluegrass state, past and present. Click “Read” to register.
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Author Emily Bingham to Lead a Reading and Q & A Session and Sign Copies of My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song Sunday, May 22, 2022 Kick-off to Frazier Book Club, 1 p.m. (Book Club Members Only) Public Event With Reading and Q & A, 2 p.m. […]
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Presentation at Historic Mordecai House, Raleigh, NC, 12/1/18 1-3pm MordecaisFlyer2
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“Is ‘My Old Kentucky Home’ the best song about Kentucky? Vote for your favorites.” Lexington Herald-Leader calls for public input following WashPo article
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On the first Saturday in May, as the Kentucky Derby is about to begin, 150,000 people at Churchill Downs and a worldwide TV audience pause to sing or at least mumble along as a band plays the sentimental strains of “My Old Kentucky Home.” The words of the song’s first verse — the only one sung […]
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The Kentucky Center presents Jenna and Barbara Bush: Sisters First in conversation with Emily Bingham. Grab your sister (or a friend who is like one!) and settle in for an evening of personal stories and universal revelations during this celebration of sisterhood and the complicated, messy, hilarious, life-defining moments that accompany it.
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Augustus Mayhew reports on the return of the Bingham family.
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Raised like a princess in one of the South’s most powerful families, Henrietta Bingham was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character and became the relative no one wanted to talk about. That is, until her great-niece discovered trunks filled with nearly […]
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“IRREPRESSIBLE: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham, by Emily Bingham. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $16.) Henrietta, the author’s violet-eyed, statuesque great-aunt, had a capacity to make men and women fall in love with her. In this biography, Bingham tracks her great-aunt’s life, which coincided with a brief period in the 1900s when unconventional desires […]
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