This section of the website is designed around local history. Those of us who interpret history can always use more readily available information.

I have based this section on some of the characters and places I go frequently. I often portray Lucy Clark Croghan at Historic Locust Grove, in Louisville, KY. Interacting with visitors on a first person level can be challenging. Referring to the lists below can be a quick study tool - knowing information about some of my famous siblings, birthdays, deaths and important dates in family life makes for a most believable portrayal.

Turning back the clock for visitors not only means dressing in the manner of the times but being able to converse about the days events too. Knowing what was happening on a state and local level and in our nation’s early days and being able to talk about it adds an extra special touch to a first person interpretation. So check below and enjoy what happened “on this day in history.”

Mandy

On this day in Indiana history

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On this day in Kentucky history

Jan   Feb   March April   May  June
July  August   Sept   Oct  Nov   Dec

On this day in the Clark Family history

Jan   Feb   March April   May  June
July  August   Sept   Oct  Nov   Dec

On this day in Falls of the Ohio history

Bibliography

Along the Ohio River Cincinnati to Louisville; Robert Schrage and Donald Clare; Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC: 2006. 127 pp.; inc. index.

The Encyclopedia of Louisville; John E. Kleber, editor; The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY: 2001. 988 pp.; inc. index.

French Lick Springs Resort, America’s grand dame; Chris Bundy; 2006. 80 pp.

Frontier Indiana; Andrew R.L. Cayton; Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN: 1996. 340 pp.; inc. index.

George Rogers Clark, military leader in the pioneer west, & Locust Grove, the Croghan homestead honoring him; Gwynne Tuell Potts and Samuel W. Thomas; Historic Locust Grove, Inc., Louisville, KY: 2006. 223 pp.; inc. index.

History of Corydon & Harrison County Indiana, a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, Volume 1; compiled by Frederick P. Griffin; Frederick P. Griffin, Corydon, IN: 1991. 404 pp.; inc. index.

History of Corydon & Harrison County Indiana, a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, Volume 2; compiled by Frederick P. Griffin; Frederick P. Griffin, Corydon, IN: 1993. 444 pp.; inc. index.

The Kentucky Encyclopedia; John E. Kleber, editor; The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY: 1992. 1080 pp.; inc. index.

Memories Louisville’s family album; R.G. Potter; St. Anthony Hospital, Louisville, KY: 1976. 

More offbeat Kentuckians; Kevin McQueen; McClanahan Publishing House, Kuttawa, KY: 2006. 208 pp.; inc. index.

“New Harmony’s First Utopians,” Donald E. Pitzer and Josephine M. Elliott; reprinted from Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. LXXV, No. 3 (September, 1979). Copyright September, 1979. 

“New Harmony, Indiana: Robert Owen’s Seedbed for Utopia,” Donald F. Carmony and Josephine M. Elliott; reprinted from the Indiana Magazine of History, LXXVI (September, 1980), 161-261.

A Sketchbook of Indiana History; Arville L. Funk; Christian Book Press, Rochester, IN: 1969 (revised 1983). 224 pp. 

So close from home, the legacy of Brownsboro Road; Lynn S. Renau; Herr House Press, Louisville, KY: 2007. 494 pp.; inc. index.

This place we call home, a history of Clark County, Indiana; Carl E. Kramer and Mary Kagin Kramer; Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2007. 636 pp.; inc. index.

Visions of Pompeii, West Baden Springs Hotel, the Lillian Sinclair diary; Chris Bundy; prior to 2001. 112 pp.

West Baden Springs, legacy of dreams; Chris Bundy; 258 pp.

Women in Utopia, the ideaology of gender in the American Owenite communities; Carol A. Kolmerten; Syracuse University Press; Syracuse, NY: 1998. 209 pp.; inc. index.

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