April 19, 2024
Alcibiades Stakes, 1953
Oil Painting, with Al Popara up, the less-fancied of Mrs. J.A. Goodwin’s two-horse entry, won the $33,700 Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland on Oct. 17, 1953. The daughter of Papa Redbird-Jack’s Jillcame was fast in the stretch to beat Mrs. Janet Hoaglin’s Pegeen and Hasty House Farm’s Queen Hopeful by a length and a half. The winning horse returned $16.66 to win. It was inaugurated in 1952 as a seven-furlong race, but from 1956 through 1980, it was extended to seven furlongs, 184 feet — roughly 9/10 of a mile. In 1981 it was changed to its current distance of 1 1/16 miles. As the 2015 fall meet opens at Keeneland today, the $400,000 Darley Alcibiades will be run for 2-year-old fillies on the main track. Published in the Herald-Leader on Oct. 18, 1953. Herald-Leader Archive Photo
Old Pepper smokestack repair, 1951
Men patched and painted near the top of the 130-foot smokestack at the Old Pepper Distillery. Published in the Lexington Herald-Leader on Jan. 14, 1951. Herald-Leader Archive Photo
Baby contest winner, 1946
Mrs. Arthur Peters, left, held her daughter, Linda Jean, who placed second in a baby contest at the 1946 Bourbon County Fall Festival. At right, Mrs. Dorothy Ryan held her nephew, Jerry Fryman, who won first place in the same contest: “up to 1 year old.” Published in the Lexington Herald on Oct. 10, 1946. Herald-Leader Archive Photo
Dudley Square, 1982
Betty Ann Ring and her cousin Lisa Hall, 9, both of Lexington, walked past the former Dudley School building on April 12, 1982. The building at East Maxwell and Mill streets had been converted into a restaurant and shopping destination called Dudley Square. Photo by David Perry | Staff
Main Street in Lexington, 1976
Traffic on Main Street in downtown Lexington, June 11, 1976. The photo was taken from Cheapside looking east. The Phoenix Hotel was demolished in 1981 and 1982 by Wallace Wilkinson, who had planned to build the World Coal Center skyscraper on the site. It was never built, and the site eventually became the Park Plaza Apartments and Phoenix Park. Photo by Frank Anderson | Staff
Margaret Mink and double-shelled egg, 1948
Margaret Mink held a pullet that laid a double-shelled egg weighing more than half a pound. Mink also held a normal-size egg for comparison. Published in the Lexington Herald on March 2, 1948. Herald-Leader Archive Photo
UK football coach Jerry Claiborne, 1983
University of Kentucky head football coach Jerry Claiborne argued with an official during UK’s game against Indiana in Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington on Sept. 17, 1983. Kentucky won the game, 24-13. Claiborne, who took over for Fran Curci in 1981, led the Kentucky program for eight years, ending with an overall record of 41-46-3. Claiborne died on Sept. 24, 2000. Photo by Charles Bertram | Staff
Harrison County courthouse, 1951
The Harrison County courthouse in Cynthiana in January 1951. The photo ran with a feature story by J. Frank Adams about Cynthiana on Jan. 7. Herald-Leader Archive Photo
UK football seniors, 1962
Nine University of Kentucky football seniors were the anchor for the 1962 team. Thomas Ray “Tommy” Simpson, No. 88, a captain on the team known as “The Thin Thirty,” died Monday in his hometown of Lebanon at age 76. The other seniors included, bottom row, from left, Jerry Woolum, Clarkie Mayfield and Gary Steward. Top row, from left: Tom Hutchinson, Dave Gash, Tommy Simpson, Junior Hawthorne, Tommy Brush and Red Hill. Herald-Leader Archive Photo
Civil rights worker Alan McSurely, 1967
Alan McSurely, a Pike County civil rights worker who was arrested on charges of sedition, discussed his position before students in September 1967 at the University of Kentucky, outside the Student Center. Alan and Margaret McSurely were field organizers in Pike County for a civil rights organization known as the Southern Conference Educational Fund. On Aug. 11 of that year, county officials obtained an arrest warrant charging Alan McSurely with sedition against the state. They also obtained a warrant to search the McSurelys’ home for “seditious matter.” More than a dozen men, many of them armed, came to the McSurelys’ home and seized all of their papers, several hundred books, and some of their clothing. Both Alan and Margaret McSurely were arrested and charged with sedition. That case led to a federal investigation and 17 years of lawsuits and countersuits. Kentucky’s sedition law was found to be unconstitutional, and McSurely won most of his appeals, including the final one, in January 1985. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals, in affirming awards to McSurely and his wife, called the case “a sorry chapter in investigative overreach.” Photo published in the Lexington Herald on Sept. 13, 1967. Herald-Leader Archive Photo
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