Bibliograph

Crawfish Bottom, recovering a lost Kentucky community, Douglas A. Boyd ; foreword by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Type

Label

Crawfish Bottom, recovering a lost Kentucky community, Douglas A. Boyd ; foreword by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Crawfish Bottom

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

746925532

Responsibility statement

Douglas A. Boyd ; foreword by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Series statement

Kentucky remembered: an oral history series

Sub title

recovering a lost Kentucky community

Summary

A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. "Craw's" reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood with the city's Capital Plaza in the mid-1960s. Douglas A. Boyd's Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community traces the evolution of the controversial community that ultimately saw four-hundred families displaced. Using oral histories and firsthand memories, Boyd not only provides a record o

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Reputation as history -- The "lower" part of the city -- Crawfish Bottom -- Contesting public memory -- The other side of the tracks -- The king of Craw -- Conclusion: Remembering Craw

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