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Hans Pennink/AP/FR58980 APOver our 15-year collaboration with the UK Libraries’ Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, WUKY’s Saving Stories has brought you numerous Kentucky Derby themed segments featuring the likes of Eddie Arcaro, Penny Chenery, W.T. Young and Arthur B. Hancock III. This week to celebrate Derby 150, Center Director Doug Boyd and Alan Lytle continue that tradition by returning to a 2019 interview with another story by Hancock. In this part of the conversation the Stone Farm horse breeder and owner talks about how he used the Pythagorean theorem to calculate the perfect ride for eventual winner Gato Del Sol in the 1982 Kentucky Derby. Until that day no horse from the far outside had ever won the signature race. It's a similar scenario 5-2 morning line favorite Fierceness is facing this Saturday. -
UK Special Collections - Calvert McCann photosWUKY's Saving Stories commemorates the sixtieth anniversary of the March for Civil Rights in Frankfort. On March 5, 1964 thousands came toKentucky's Capitol to hear from Martin Luther King, baseball great Jackie Robinson, folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, and rally support for a public accommodations bill. To celebrate Women's History Month, Nunn Center Director Dr. Doug Boyd shares audio from three recent interviews with local women who participated in the event on that historic day.
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WUKY’s Award Winning history series Saving Stories closes out Black History Month by revisiting a pivotal moment in Kentucky’s Civil Rights Movement that happened in early March of 1964. -
WUKY's award winning history series Saving Stories celebrates Black History Month with a segment onLexington-based musician and band leader Saunders Richardson Jr., better known to history as 'Smoke' Richardson. Doug Boyd from the Louie B.Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK libraries shares audio from interviews conducted in 1997 from two people who remember the impact Smoke had on the local music scene from the 1930's, 40's and early 50's, especially in the segregated Black community. The Nunn Center also wants your stories and memories about Smoke Richardson, the Lyric Theatre, Lexington's East End neighborhood, or anything else you'd like to share. Call the new TeleStory archive at 833-859-7272. -
In this edition of WUKY's award winning history series Saving Stories Nunn Center for Oral History director Doug Boyd shares audio from an interview with the late UK basketball coach Joe B. Hall where the Kentucky native talks about his time guiding the Wildcats through the post-Rupp era, including bringing home the school's fifth NCAA title in 1978. Hall recalls a controversial and crucial halftime decision he made in an early round game in that tournament run. -
In this special MLK Holiday edition of WUKY's award winning history series Saving Stories, Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries highlights an extraordinary interview with Dr. King recorded in March of 1964. Hear the non-violent advocate and activist at the height of his influence in a one on one interview with Kentucky author Robert Penn Warren talking about where he thought the Civil Rights movement would go next. -
In this edition of WUKY's award winning history series Saving Stories Nunn Center for Oral History director Doug Boyd shares audio from an interview with the late UK basketball coach Joe B. Hall where the Kentucky native talks about his time guiding the Wildcats through the post-Rupp era, including bringing home the school's fifth NCAA title in 1978. Hall recalls a controversial and crucial halftime decision he made in an early round game in that tournament run.
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In this special MLK Holiday edition of WUKY's award winning history series Saving Stories, Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries highlights an extraordinary interview with Dr. King recorded in March of 1964. Hear the non-violent advocate and activist at the height of his influence in a one on one interview with Kentucky author Robert Penn Warren talking about where he thought the Civil Rights movement would go next.
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