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The nearly 350 humorous, heartwarming, and sometimes tragic accounts presented in William Lynwood Montell's latest book, Tales from Kentucky Doctors, offer an unusual perspective on the culture and tradition of Kentucky health-care practice. From the laughable to the laudable, Tales from Kentucky Doctors present illuminating portraits of doctors and patients, drawing stories from physicians with lifetimes of experience serving Kentucky families. In chapter 2, doctors recall the successes and failures that shaped their early careers. For Dr. Baretta R. Casey of Hazard, becoming a doctor was a difficult journey. Already married and with a child, Casey enrolled in college at age thirty, later c...
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The Wonder Team tells the story of the most famous and publicized college football team ever to play the game. Few now remember how, in the years after World War I, a small group of talented and colorful young men put Centre College, and the little town of Danville, Kentucky, on the map.The "Praying Colonels" played all over the country and, despite having only 200 students enrolled at the school, beat all the major powers of the day. Fueled by Robert L. "Chief" Myers' almost supernatural belief that he could attract young players and mold them into a championship team, he and Centre's wonderfully-talented coach "Uncle Charlie" Moran helped the team achieve enormous acclaim not just in Kentu...