Alan Lytle

Lexington Stories, Lore and More is back with a fresh episode on some of the buildings and structures that 'make Lexington Lexington.' Fiona Young-Brown, author of Secret Lexington, A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure, tells us about places like the Coca Cola building on Leestown that resembles a UFO, the former Bondurant pharmacy, (now a liquor store) that was constructed as a giant mortar and pestle, and the story of downtown Lexington's Big Blue building. Take a trip around the city without leaving your home. We'll drop the knowledge on ya.

October 28, the Lyric Theatre in Lexington's East End neighborhood celebrated 15 years of rebirth. The current iteration of the arts and cultural center was officially reopened in 2010. In a 2015 UK Nunn Center oral history interview local activist Tom Tolliver talks about the effort to revitalize the Lyric, which had been shuttered since 1963; a result of the end of city-wide desegregation of public spaces. At first Tolliver was not on board with the idea and he describes what actions changed his mind.

Welcome, come listen if you dare to our newest podcast creation - it's alive, alive! Lexington Stories Lore and More debuts with a suitably creepy episode just in time for Halloween. Fiona Young-Brown, author of Secret Lexington, A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure, tells us about several creepy, haunted and sometimes frightful stories associated with Lexington. So grab a security blanket, your candy corn and your imagination.

Whether you’ve lived in Lexington all of your life or you’re a relative newcomer, there’s probably a story you haven’t heard, or a question you’ve always had, about some of our fascinating spots or quirky spaces. Author Fiona Young Brown joins us to talk about her new book Secret Lexington, A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure.

October 17 is an important day in the history of WUKY. The station formerly known as WBKY signed on for the first time on October 17, 1940. To mark the station's 85th anniversary, this special edition of Saving Stories with Dr. Doug Boyd from the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries, features an interview with Ruth Foxx Newborg, the first program director of the Beattyville, KY radio station.

City and community leaders were on hand to cut the ribbon today on Cardinal Run Park North - the first large, regional park to be built in Lexington in more than 25 years. Mayor Linda Gorton says the new space joins Cardinal Run Park South to become the city's fifth largest regional park.

Council is back in Chambers this week after their fall break and in this week's edition of WUKY's CivicLex Chat Kit Anderson previews two streets and roads-related committee efforts taking place at city hall. She also talks about an opportunity you have to weigh in on the city's master plan Wednesday night from 5:30-7:30 pm at the Lyric Theatre.

UK's respective men's and women's basketball coaches got up close and somewhat personal with reporters today during the annual Media Day event at Memorial Coliseum.

October's 250Lex theme explores Lexington's history as the "Horse Capital of the World." We talk with Hallie Hardy, executive director of Visit Horse Country, which is celebrating its own 10 year anniversary with numerous equine-related events happening all this month. We also run down some exciting new things happening at the Lexington History Museum.

Saving Stories returns with a fresh episode on the integration of baseball. Not the Jackie Robinson story but another event that happened right here in Lexington. Nunn Center director Dr. Doug Boyd shares audio from an oral history interview with Lexington native Bobby Flynn, who in 1947 helped the Lexington Hustlers become the first integrated baseball team in the South. Flynn was white but had been rejected by the white teams because he was small. In the interview Bobby Flynn tells the story of being asked by manager John 'Scoop' Brown to join the Negro League team, and the reaction from members of the local white community.