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	Kentucky State Song: My Old Kentucky Home
		"My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!" was adopted by Kentucky as its state song in 1928.
		It was written by Stephen Foster in 1853 and is said to have been inspired by a visit to Federal Hill, the Bardstown home of his Rowan cousins.
		Federal Hill is now a part of My Old Kentucky State Park.
	www.uky.edu /KentuckyCulture/my-old-kentucky-home.html (55 words)

	My Old Kentucky Home - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"My Old Kentucky Home" written by Stephen Foster in 1853, is the state song of Kentucky.
		It was adopted by the Kentucky State Legislature as the official state song on March 19, 1928.
		"My Old Kentucky Home" is traditionally sung annually at the Kentucky Derby where it is played by the University of Louisville marching band.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/My_Old_Kentucky_Home (388 words)

	Kentucky State Song My Old Kentucky Home Stephen Collins Foster
		The song, "My Old Kentucky Home," words and music by Stephen Collins Foster, was adopted by the Kentucky Legislature as the Kentucky state song on March 19, 1928.
		Be it Resolved by the Senate of Kentucky, the House of Representatives concurring: That the song, "My Old Kentucky Home," by Stephen Collins Foster, be and is hereby selected and adopted as the official State song of the State of Kentucky.
		The modern version of "My Old Kentucky Home" was adopted during the 1986 Regular Session of the General Assembly by the House of Representatives in House Resolution 159 and the Senate in Senate Resolution 114.
	www.netstate.com /states/symb/song/ky_my_old_kentucky_home.htm (458 words)

	My Old Kentucky Home (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		My Old Kentucky Home, originally released on April 13, 1926, by Max Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell Films company, was one of the Song Car-Tunes series.
		This cartoon does contain the original lyrics of "My Old Kentucky Home," by Stephen Collins Foster (1853).
		My Old Kentucky Home appears to be the first attempt at animated dialogue, as a dog mouths, "Follow the ball, and join in, everybody" in remarkable sychronization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/My_Old_Kentucky_Home_(movie) (134 words)

	NCHS - Thomas Wolfe Memorial: Old Kentucky Home
		On December 7, 1945, Julia died intestate, and the Old Kentucky Home devolved on Effy, Frank, Mabel, and Fred Wolfe.
		On November 22, the Old Kentucky Home was appraised at $15,750.
		The Old Kentucky Home was dedicated as a registered National Historic Landmark on May 5, 1973, and ownership of the Memorial passed to the State of North Carolina on January 16, 1975.
	www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/hs/wolfe/OldKyHome.htm (3775 words)

	Stephen Collins Foster, A Pictorial Biography, page 11, My Old Kentucky Home
		It is said by some that the legend of My Old Kentucky Home is not verified, but the fact remains that the old Rowan homestead is looked upon as the inspiration of the song.
		Up to the time when Madge Rowan sold the old home to the trustees of a popular subscription, and then only upon the condition that the property be maintained as a state shrine, The Kentucky Home had been occupied only by members of the Rowan family.
		The handsome and authoritative oil painting of Stephen Foster, which adorns the wall of this historic room, was presented to the commission of The Old Kentucky Home by the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh, at the time of the dedication of the home, July 4, 1923.
	www.bobjanuary.com /foster/sf_11.htm (832 words)

	Introduction to Kentucky, The Bluegrass State Capital Frankfort
		The state is home to a stellar system of state parks and natural attractions, featuring lakes, hardwood forests, spectacular waterfalls, and magnificent caves.
		On October 18, 2001 the Kentucky quarter was officially unveiled in front of "My Old Kentucky Home" in Bardstown, Kentucky.
		In fact, Kentucky is home of the longest running annual horse race in the country, the Kentucky Derby.
	www.netstate.com /states/intro/ky_intro.htm (713 words)

	Kentucky's State Song: My Old Kentucky Home - Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
		My Old Kentucky Home" was written and set to music by Stephen Collins Foster in 1850 and published in 1853 by Firth, Pound, and Company, New York.
		Indeed, it appears to be the Kentucky character." On her way home via steamboat from one of the visits, Charlotte contracted River Fever, and died at the age of 20.
		It was not until 1906 that Kentucky, during a "Kentucky Homecoming" festival, used the song as a representative of the state's heritage.
	www.kdla.ky.gov /resources/kysong.htm (2067 words)

	The Kentucky - The United States Mint
		The Kentucky quarter, the fifth and last quarter in the 2001 series, shows the stately mansion, Federal Hill, with an inscription that reads, "My Old Kentucky Home." A thoroughbred racehorse is positioned behind a fence in the foreground of the quarter.
		Kentucky was the first state on the western frontier to join the Union and is one of four states to call itself a "commonwealth." Kentucky is home of the longest running annual horse race in the country, the Kentucky Derby.
		Over 50,000 residents of Kentucky cast votes for their favorite concepts that included "My Old Kentucky Home", a horse and a jockey, Abraham Lincoln's birthplace, and Daniel Boone.
	www.usmint.gov /mint_programs/50sq_program/states/index.cfm?state=ky (274 words)

	"My Old Kentucky Home" and the Kentucky Colonels' barbecue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"My Old Kentucky Home" is a deceptively sad song whose meaning is lost to most people who hear it for the first time.
		It's not my intent to offend African-Americans of today or to disrespect those who have gone before; but I prefer to use the original lyrics here, because the real meaning of the song is hidden when the newer words are used.
		Kentucky Colonels are appointed to this honorary position by the Governor.
	members.iglou.com /perkins/newkpf/2003_05/home2428.htm (829 words)

	Thomas Wolfe's Dixieland - Thomas Wolfe's Old Kentucky Home LiteraryTraveler.com
		The Old Kentucky Home, known as "Dixieland" in the novel Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe, is located at 48 Spruce Street in downtown Asheville.
		The Memorial is a wide bright structure that was built behind the home.
		Slowly the wounds in the town began to heal, and after a voluntary exile of over seven years, Wolfe returned home in May of 1937 to a reception worthy of a native son.
	www.literarytraveler.com /literary_articles/thomas_wolfe_dixieland.aspx (735 words)

	Kentucky: Department of Parks - Home
		The Kentucky State Parks operate 24 recreation parks that offer a variety of activities for visitors, whether you have a few hours, a day or a week to spend with us.
		Kentucky State Parks offer over 250 miles of trails suitable for all levels of enjoyment.
		Kentucky is famed for bluegrass, bourbon, beautiful mountains and thoroughbreds.
	parks.ky.gov (544 words)

	2008 Kentucky Derby \| Bet on the Kentucky Derby, odds, futures, pools, news and results
		The Kentucky Derby is a stakes race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses, staged yearly in Louisville, Kentucky on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival.
		The Kentucky Derby is one of the crown jewels of the elusive Triple Crown which includes the Belmont Stakes and the Preakness Stakes.
		As the horses are paraded before the grandstands, "My Old Kentucky Home" is played by the University of Louisville marching band while the crowd stands and sings along.
	www.kentuckyderby.info (511 words)

	My Old Kentucky Funeral Home
		My Old Kentucky home is "similar to a third-world country" according to one doctor.
		One report out of McKee, a very small town in eastern Kentucky, regales readers with the tale of one patient with untreated cancer so advanced that she had a foul-smelling open wound in her breast.
		Kentucky's relationship with tobacco is part of a larger, long-standing culture that it is resistant to and fearful of change.
	www.webpronews.com /business/topbusiness/wpn-54-20050719MyOldKentuckyFuneralHome.html (627 words)

	Audio Video Interiors: This Old Kentucky Home
		"My first house was fifty years old; my second house was a one-hundred-year-old Victorian," recalls the successful trial attorney.
		The home runs terminated in a central location, in the one subterranean area that had a full basement.
		Not every old house is an historical monument, but when one is landmarked, that status has to be taken into account when installing technology.
	www.audiovideointeriors.com /interiorideas/1005toh-kh (797 words)

	Thomas Wolfe Memorial - The Site Today
		Named "Old Kentucky Home" by a previous owner, Wolfe immortalized the rambling Victorian structure as "Dixieland" in his epic autobiographical novel,
		Wolfe's mother lived in the "Old Kentucky Home" until her death in 1945.
		Four years later her surviving sons and daughters sold the house to a private organization, the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association, and it opened to the public as a house museum on July 19, 1949.
	www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/hs/wolfe/Main.htm (641 words)

	Federal Hill: Small town has Old Kentucky Home \| ajc.com
		The interior of the home was recently restored, taking the elegant wallpapers, floor coverings and window treatments back to Stephen Foster's era of the 1850s.
		Madge Rowan Frost was the last mistress of the home, selling the mansion and 235 acres to My Old Kentucky Home Commission for $65,000 in 1920.
		The grandfather clock at the top of the stairs, now carpeted in a dramatic Jacobean scroll pattern, is one of the home's most venerable pieces, between 225 and 229 years old.
	www.ajc.com /news/content/travel/southeast/ky_stories/2006/11/22/1122bardstown.html (993 words)

	The Old Kentucky Home: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		According to Rachel and her mother, the house had been built in the early 1950s, and was situated on land that seemed to have contained only field or pasture before that time.
		While my skills as a dowser are not as honed as partner LS', I persevere.
		It would be my conclusion that the events at the home near Taylor Mill do not represent a deceased but retained spirit per se (although without partner LS' intuitive and clairsentient abilities this cannot be said for certain).
	www.theavalonfoundation.org /oldkyhome.htm (1196 words)

	"Old Folks at Home"
		Old Folks at Home is legitimately considered an authentic song of the Negro race, who have adopted it to express their own emotions.
		Old Folks at Home, My Old Kentucky Home, and Old Black Joe helped bring about emancipation, and owe something to the "well of sorrow" that gave rise to the blues.
		My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1852): over several years Foster had tried to persuade professional performers to portray African-Americans with dignity; this is his first song for the professional stage published without dialect
	www.pitt.edu /~amerimus/ofah.htm (531 words)

	Country Music's Old Kentucky Home
		Kentucky tourism officials, trying to capitalize on the growing popularity, have begun developing museums and performance halls to cater to the fans.
		Patton was in Nashville in October to invite some of Kentucky's country music stars to be a part of the academy.
		Tour buses now are common throughout the region, bringing groups from as far away as Canada, to see the hometowns of their favorite singers and to hear the yet undiscovered singers at the Mountain Arts Center.
	www.sculpturesplace.com /bbs/index.cgi/noframes/read/4368 (889 words)

	My Old Kentucky Home by Stephen Foster - lyrics and chords
		My Old Kentucky Home by Stephen Foster - lyrics and chords
		Inspired by the loveliness of the Kentucky countryside, Foster is said to have written this famous song there in 1852 at Federal Hill in Bardstown, which was the home of Fosters relatives, the Rowans.
		It was made the state song of Kentucky in 1928.
	www.celticguitarmusic.com /folk_my_old_kentucky_home.htm (233 words)

	Southern Living: My old Kentucky home
		My search is different; it's for four-legged, Southern-preferably Kentucky-antique chests and tables.
		The Bluegrass may be known for horses, but it's also home to a Triple Crown lineup of smalltown meccas for antiques lovers.
		Continue on into Lexington, the unofficial capital of the Bluegrass and home to the University of Kentucky, where old and new mesh comfortably.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3676/is_199812/ai_n8821607 (448 words)

	My old Kentucky home - Club Stogie Cigar Discussion Forum
		Kentucky is such a beautifull place and family only makes it better especially with age.
		And one of the old men that workd thier is a blast.
		Oh by the way, the guy that got me interested in cigars my Dad has now regestired so be on the look out for an old fart with plenty of great stories and great info on cigars and the like.
	www.clubstogie.com /vb/showthread.php?p=341464#post341464 (781 words)

	A really old Kentucky home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The building is a traditional 19th-century Kentucky log house and one of the few such dwellings left in Northern Kentucky.
		(Building on a hillside is common in Kentucky, where flat land was reserved for crops.) The nearby pond is a favorite hideaway for a great blue heron.
		A gap in the logs between the rooms, now filled in, suggests it was a dog trot house, a style of folk architecture, with an open passage between the two square halves, possibly for ventilation or to reduce damage from a severe fire.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/1999/11/28/loc_a_really_old.html (581 words)

	My Old Kentucky Blog : Your lighthouse in the shitstorm of bad music.
		Actually, the Dolphins D may be old, but their still a Top 7 defense and will keep the Fins in games, just like last year.
		I was hoping the move to Raleigh would move things in my internal life around, but it stayed the same, and I stayed in the tank.
		My apologies to the band; however, based on High, in stores on September 4th, they are showing no lasting ill effects of my indifference.
	myoldkyhome.blogspot.com (7578 words)

	MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME
		One unusual item is that the first successful amputation of a leg at the hip joint was performed here in 1806 by the local doctor.
		The first picture shows the Old Talbott Tavern, next is the Old County Jail, and the last picture is an 1819 native limestone building which is now a bed and breakfast.
		There is also the Civil War Museum at Old Bardstown Village and The Mansion, an 1851 Greek Revival home at 1003 N. 3rd, where the first Confederate flag was raised in Kentucky.
	www.ustravelphotos.com /Kentucky/kybluegrassheartlands1.htm (187 words)

	Family Bids Farewell To ‘Old Kentucky Home,’ Hello To Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		LOUISVILLE—Stan and Wendy Meador are ready to bid farewell to their old Kentucky home, and say hello to their new lives as missionaries in Brazil.
		For Wendy, a 37-year-old Chaplin native, Kentucky is home, and being surrounded by family and friends will make the appointment that much sweeter.
		Stan will focus on planting churches and developing small groups among the German immigrants, while Wendy will use their home as a means to develop relationships with women and children to strengthen the development of house churches.
	www.kybaptist.org /kbc/welcome.nsf/pages/imbapptmeador (1136 words)

	Old Kentucky Home Tour, 10/11 September - 'BentRider Online Forums
		Is one of my many childhood/young adulthood "stompin' grounds" as I was born and raised in the next county over, Hardin.
		Maybe I should just call my friends over there, have them pick me up in their pick up, take me to their house for lodging and breakfast and home cookin'...
		My check is made out, the envelope is addressed, the registration form has been completed, and everything is sealed and stamped and ready to mail in the morning.
	www.bentrideronline.com /messageboard/showthread.php?p=94940 (983 words)

	'Boy' hopes to return to old Kentucky home
		The Kentucky native has made his Broadway debut, purchased a legendary Boston studio, started an environmental foundation, addressed a congressional subcommittee and made serious plans for settling down one day.
		He was thinking about returning to his old Kentucky home even then.
		"When I move back home to Kentucky to raise a family on my farm, I want my kids to be able to fish and swim in the same places I grew up," Richardson told a subcommittee chaired by Sen. Joseph Lieberman.
	www.backstreet.net /www.cgi?x=show&d=news&i=030713-2005-01 (587 words)

	Kentucky Department of Parks - My Old Kentucky Home State Park
		Enjoy a day on Kentucky’s rolling bluegrass as you test your golfing skills on the 18-hole, regulation golf course.
		The new building serves as the main entry point for visitors to the popular tourism attraction, Federal Hill Mansion, "My Old Kentucky Home" of Stephen Foster’s ballad.
		Sample the elegant past during the annual Christmas Candlelight Tours at My Old Kentucky Home.
	parks.ky.gov /stateparks/mk/details.htm (418 words)

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