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April 2008 issue of
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Contents of the April 2008 issue of Kentucky Humanities:

FEATURES

Standing Up for Her Sex

Eliza Calvert Hall of Bowling Green was a housewife who found time to write best-selling fiction as well as opinion pieces for national publications. In both, as Lynn Niedermeier reports, she was an uncompromising advocate for women's rights, especially the ballot.

"Sally Ann's Experience"

In 1898, many magazines found Eliza Calvert Hall's most famous short story too hot to handle. It was quaint, comic, and perfectly clear about the injustices women suffered at the hands of their narrow-minded men.

Don Ament

Lexington photographer Don Ament says his work is an "attempt to give voice to a planet we have forgotten how to care for." The planet seems to speak especially eloquently when Ament trains his camera on trees, including the sycamore on our cover.

A Killing Gentleman

The dueling ground was familiar territory for Alexander McClung, the feared Black Knight of the South. A native of Mason County, McClung was a political journalist, orator and war hero, but Jim Prichard writes that he is remembered mainly as a notorious duelist.

DEPARTMENTS

Kentucky History and Travel Notes
Elliott County's quilt trail and Sidney Saylor Farr on snake handling.

The Council Pages
Our Lincoln thrills a sold-out house.

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