Word: kentucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selections rendered at all concerts will be: Banjo Club: "Campus Memories", "Clicquot", "American Patrol", and "Bullfrog Blues"; Mandolin Club: "Blue Kentuck Moon", "Dark Eyes", "Volga Boatman", and "Selections from Gilbert and Sullivan"; Vocal: "Gay Nineties Medley", "Keep in the Middle of the Road", "Bonnie Dundee", "Australia", and "Johnny Harvard". Three presentations will be made in the way of special numbers; a violin solo, a guitar quartet, and a magician...
...this story of the vague distances of our national history Miss Roberts has chosen to sing of those hardy men and women who fought their way arduously over Boone's trace into the promised land of Kentuck to found the beginnings of our great western empire...
...restless days of the Revolution, Kentuck was a land of milk and honey to the struggling settlers of the Virginia back-woods. Only the most daring of hunters had been there. Such men as Boone, Harrod, and Logan, each had returned with glowing tales of boundless fields of cane, of the rich soil, and of the numberless deer and buffalo. Aroused by these reports, little groups of pioneers fought their way over the trace to establish communities in the new country. Kentuck was not, however, the Utopia of all men's dreams. The Indians held it unlucky and used...
With the skill of a great composer, the authoress establishes her main theme upon the plan of a symphony. The environment and teachings of the main character Diony Hall form the motif recurrent throughout. Behind the sudden death and vivid reality of the frontier life in Kentuck runs strands of memories from his days in Virginia. Such repetition of familiar ideas is helpful in conveying to the reader the longings of the pioneer woman's soul. The prose is melodiously in keeping with symphonic structure, possessing a meaty sensuousness seldom encounted in modern authors and rising at points to poetry...
Diony Hall, daughter of Virginian pioneers, settles in what was still the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, marries her neighbor Berk Jarvis, goes with him the two-months' journey across the mountains into Kentuck, over the dim trail made by Explorer Daniel Boone. There they settle at Harrod's Fort, one of the three white settlements in the country. No one dared live outside the stockade: the Indians, hostile in their own right, were also encouraged by the British, who paid a bounty for Yankee prisoners, Yankee scalps, brought to Detroit. Once Diony and her mother-in-law wandered...