Botanic Garden and My Old Kentucky Plays

Kentucky. Known today for its bluegrass, horse racing, and bourbon; it’s very name, embedded in Iroquois history, means Land of Tomorrow. The song birds are the sweetest, thoroughbreds fleetest, wrote James Mulligan, “The landscape is the grandest--And politics—the damnedest In Kentucky.”

It’s a hard look that we must face at European settlers, frightened by differences in heritage, religion, and...