April 4, 2025
Event rider Nicole Parkin, Toronto, Ont., was interrupted from reading by her 8-year-old thoroughbred Dillon the Villain, while waiting during the dressage portion of the Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event at the Kentucky Horse Park April 28, 1994. This year’s event, now called the Land Rover Kentucky Three Day Event starts today. Photo by Tom Marks | Staff
Nancy Hendricks, a 20-year-old nurse, worked 3 to 11pm each day in the emergency room at Good Samaritan hospital, which she found excitement, humor and tragedy as she came in contact with a cross-section of humanity, all part of the daily routine. Hendricks, from Owensboro, was the subject of a feature story in the April 21, 1946 Herald-Leader. She had finished her 3-year training period at Good Samaritan hospital in March and then asked for regular duty in the emergency room. Her mother was a nurse and a nursing career was always her ambition. In the future she said she would like to specialize in psychiatry noting that emergency room duty provided good training for the field. Published in the Herald-Leader April 21, 1946. Herald-Leader Archive Photo
The corner of South Limestone and Avenue of Champions, April 22, 1993. Shown from left is a Dairy Mart convenience store, the 24-hour restaurant Tolly-Ho, sporting goods store Court Sports and a Dunkin’ Donuts location. Since 2000, Pazzo’s Pizza Pub has been in the spot where Court Sports and Dunkin’ Donuts were. Click on the image for a closer look. Tolly-Ho has been a popular campus hangout since since 1971, when it opened at what was then 108 West Euclid Avenue, today known as Winslow Street. Click here to see a picture from our archives of that location. In March 1985, the 24-hour greasy spoon couldn’t make a deal for a new lease and moved to this location in August 1987. The owners rented there until May 2011, when they opened at their current spot, buying the empty Hart’s Dry Cleaning building at 606 South Broadway. Today the Tolly-Ho location pictured here is a Noodles and Company restaurant and the Dairy Mart is vacant property. Photo by Frank Anderson | staff
Kitty Proctor, Versailles, took shelter from the sun while studying Keeneland’s racing program in April 1984. Counting today, only five more days of racing remain in this year’s Spring meet. Today’s featured stakes race is the Dixiana Elkhorn (G2) for 4-year-olds and up at 1 1/2 miles on the turf. Photo by David Perry | Staff
An estimated 1,200 fans attended the opening game for the Paintsville Yankees as they played the Pikeville Brewers in June 1982. Paintsville had a team in the minor league Appalachian League from 1979 through 1984. Click here to read about how the league was started and how it came to an end. Pikeville had a team in the same rookie league from 1982 through 1984. Paintsville’s home field shown here belonged to Johnson Central High School. Several future Major League Baseball players came through the teams. Future Hall of Famer Greg Maddux was with Pikeville in 1984 and Reds star Jose Rijo played for Paintsville at age 17. Photo by David Perry | staff
Fireworks during Thunder Over Louisville, April 18, 1998. Started in 1989 as the kickoff show for the Kentucky Derby Festival, Thunder is the largest annual pyrotechnics display in North America. The show is larger than the opening and closing ceremonies of the Atlanta and Barcelona Olympics combined. Along with an afternoon air show, it attracts an estimated average attendance of half a million people to downtown Louisville. This 1998 show, featured 46 tons of fireworks. Today, eight tractor trailers are filled with nearly 60 tons of fireworks shells. The 2018 show will be Saturday. Photo by Mark Cornelison | staff