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All Episodes

Tales From The Kentucky Room — 127 episodes

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1

Traces with Patricia Hudson (2026)

2

"She's the Mother of Us All" with author and historian Maryjean Wall (2026)

3

The Judge Mulligan Poisoning and Other Historic Lexington Crimes with Keven McQueen (2026)

4

The Opera House with Kevin Lane Dearinger (2026)

5

Alias Agnes: A Conversation with Dr. Elizabeth DeWolfe (2026)

6

The Kentucky Room Digital Archive with Sarah Hubbard (2026)

7

Southern Country Goodfellow: A Conversation with Adam Lewis (2026)

8

Appalachian Englishes with Dr. Jennifer Cramer (2025)

9

250Lex: Gratz Park: The Heart of Historic Lexington with Dr. Jeremy Popkin and Bob Willcutt (2025)

10

The Cemetery Road Murders: An Interview with Wes Swietek (2025)

11

250Lex: Lexington Sports Retrospective with Wayne Johnson (2025)

12

The Warehouse Block with Chad Walker and Erica Friis (2025)

13

250Lex: Notable People in Lexington Kentucky's History (2025)

14

250Lex: “Queer, Here, & Everywhere” Exhibit, an interview with Josh Porter (2025)

15

250Lex: Early Lexington Cemeteries with Zach Davis (2025)

16

Lafayette in Lexington, a conversation with Dale Henley (2025)

17

Bluegrass Sons: An Interview with Erin Chandler (2025)

18

Kentucky on Ice (2025)

19

250Lex: Top Ten Events in Lexington, Kentucky's History (2025)

20

A City Physician's Scandal (2024)

21

Quilting Kentucky's Stories - Sissy Bug by Freda Meriwether

22

The Tent Girl (2024)

23

Quilting Kentucky's Stories: Honor Flight by Jerry Meriwether (2024)

24

Quilting Kentucky's Stories: Making Meaning by Holly Epperly (2024)

25

The McLain Family Band (2024)

26

Quilting Kentucky's Stories: When the Horse Won't Follow by Christine W. Stephany (2024)

27

The Murder of Thomas H. Merritt: an interview with Zach Davis

28

Quilting Kentucky's Stories: Silent Visitors by Lauren Cole Brown

29

Project USS Strong DD467, an interview with Tammi Johnson (2024)

30

Quilting Kentucky's Stories: Humor in a Time of Grief by Sylvia Lovely

31

Gatewood Galbraith, an Interview with Matthew Strandmark

32

Quilting Kentucky's Stories: Strawberry Fields Forever in My Heart by Kali Mattheus

33

Not Your Grandmother's DAR (2024)

34

Quilting Kentucky's Stories: Hope by Terry Hall

35

Lexington: America's Legendary Racehorse with Kim Wickens (2024)

36

Quilting Kentucky's Stories: The Fairy Tree by Leo York

37

Revisiting the 1974 Tornado Super Outbreak after 50 Years (2024)

38

The Life of Ella Offutt Pepper (2024)

39

Quilting Kentucky's Stories: Pants by Retha Hicks

40

Quilting Kentucky's Stories: Donna Carter's Speech for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

41

Pralltown (2024)

42

Coming Soon: Quilting Kentucky's Stories

43

Anatomy of a Duel: an Interview with Stuart Sanders (2024)

44

Village Branch: The Little Library That Could (2023)

45

Kentucky and the War of 1812: the Governor, the Farmers and the Pig: An Interview with Doris Settles (2023)

46

Segregated Lexington: An Interview with Rona Roberts and Barbara Sutherland (2023)

47

Bluegrass Paradise: the History of Royal Spring with Gary O’Dell (2023)

48

Street Names in Lexington, Part Two: The Streets Not Named for Horses (2023)

49

Lexington's 1965 Fallout Shelter Plan (2023)

50

Gay Poems for Red States: An Interview with Willie Carver, Jr. (2023)

51

Street Names in Lexington, Part One: Horse Names (2023)

52

A History Lover's Guide to Lexington with Peter Brackney (2023)

53

The 1964 March on Frankfort (2023)

54

The 20th Anniversary of the Lexington Ice Storm

55

Julia Perry, Composer (2023)

56

100 Years of the Kentucky Theatre: An Interview with Fred Mills (2022)

57

Black Enclaves of Lexington (2022)

58

John Wilkes Booth in Lexington (2022)

59

Library Building History (2022)

60

J. Alexander Chiles: The Fight Against Kentucky’s Separate Coach Law (2022)

61

Ten Hours of Terror: The Barnes Family Murder, 1973 (Part 2 of 2, 2022)

62

Ten Hours of Terror: The Barnes Family Murder, 1973 (Part 1 of 2, 2022)

63

Nick Carter, Bloodhound (2022)

64

Washington’s Iron Butterfly, an Interview with Terry Birdwhistell and Don Ritchie (2022)

65

Charles Dickens’ Visit to Kentucky (2022)

66

Drowned Town: An Interview with Author Jayne Moore Waldrop (2022)

67

Who’s the Scammer? A Tale of a Horse Sale (2021)

68

History of Lexington City & Fayette County Public Schools (2021)

69

Lafayette’s Visit to Lexington (2021)

70

The Urge to Merge: The Merger of Lexington’s City and Fayette County’s Governments (2021)

71

Russell’s Cave: A Tiny History for Fayette County’s Biggest Cave (2021)

72

Not Just a One Way Street (2021)

73

The Murder of Alexander T. Hays (2021)

74

Fire on UK’s Campus: the 51st Anniversary of the Kent State protests (2021)

75

Elizabeth Keckley, an Interview with Lauren Burke (2021)

76

Three Civil War Lexington Women

77

A Conversation With Reverend L. Clark Williams (2021)

78

Cut to the Chase: An Interview with Alan Cutler (2020)

79

President for a Day: David Rice Atchison

80

The Murder of Marion Miley, Revisited: An Interview with Author Beverly Bell (2020)

81

Pamela Brown: A Free Life (2020)

82

The Willipus Wallipus (2020)

83

Best of Tales from the Kentucky Room (2020)

84

Kentucky Baseball Bonus Episode (2020)

85

Kentucky Baseball (2020)

86

Breaking the Bronze Ceiling (2020)

87

Ruth Gaylord, Lexington Public Library's First African American Librarian (2020)

88

The Extraordinary Life of Dr. Mary E. Britton (2020)

89

Dolly Johnson Dandridge: Lexington's White House Chef (2020)

90

The Murder of Geneva Hardman: An Interview with Peter Brackney (2020)

91

The Tragic Life of Margaret Garner (2020)

92

The League of Women Voters (2020)

93

Women's Suffrage in Kentucky (2020)

94

The History of Lexington Newspapers with Tom Eblen (2019)

95

Eastern State Hospital (2019)

96

Bad Sex in Kentucky, An Interview with Kevin Lane Dearinger (2019)

97

Joyland Amusement Park (2019)

98

Cassius Marcellus Clay: Abolitionist, Newspaper Man, Knife Fighter (2019)

99

This Is Home Now: An Interview with Arwen Donahue (2019)

100

The Hidden History of Horse Racing in Kentucky (2019)

101

Black Soil: An Interview with Trevor Claiborn (2019)

102

Harry Dean Stanton Festival (2019)

103

A Little Kidnapping (2019)

104

Lost Lexington: An Interview with Peter Brackney

105

Smiley Pete: Lexington's Town Dog (2019)

106

Swope v. Goodloe, or Possibly the First Time “Going Postal” Might Apply (2019)

107

Kentucky Duels (2019)

108

Henry Faulkner Week: Sweet Evening Breeze (2019)

109

Henry Faulkner Week: An Interview with Robert Morgan (2019)

110

Henry Faulkner Week Preview: Alice, Disappeared (2019)

111

A Wounded Snake: An Interview with author Joseph Anthony (2019)

112

The Murder of Marion Miley, Part 2 (2019)

113

The Murder of Marion Miley, Part 1 (2019)

114

Railroad Track Removal from Downtown Lexington. (2018)

115

Cholera, Part Four: The Outbreak in 1849. (2018)

116

Cholera, Part Three: From the Home of the Friendless to Ashland Terrace (2018)

117

Cholera, Part Two: The Pie Seller, the Drunk, and the Lady (2018)

118

Cholera, Part One: King Solomon (2018)

119

Lexington Ghost Stories (2018)

120

The Cherokee and the Newsman (2018)

121

The Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (2018)

122

The Murder of Betty Gail Brown, part 2 (2018)

123

The Murder of Betty Gail Brown, part 1 (2018)

124

Belle Brezing (2018)

125

Mary Todd Lincoln (2018)

126

Audubon vs. Rafinesque (2018)

127

Faulkner Morgan Pagan Babies Archive (2018)