"in His heaven—All's right with the world!"" The town of Pippa Passes, Kentucky, is formally named after the poem thanks to a grant from the Browning Society. In the Israeli playwright Nissim Aloni play ""Napoleon – dead or alive!"" (1970) there is a character named Pippa, who acts as the secretary of the VIP department in the afterworld. Aloni refers to Browning also in his play The American Princess. Pippa Passes Pippa Passes is a verse drama by Robert Browning. It was published in 1841 as the first volume of his ""Bells and Pomegranates"" series, in a low-priced two-column edition"
"Bowling Green, Kentucky Bowling Green is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Warren County, Kentucky, United States. As of 2017, its population of 67,067 made it the third most-populous city in the state after Louisville and Lexington; its metropolitan area had an estimated population of 165,732; and the combined statistical area it shares with Glasgow has an estimated population of 218,870. Founded by pioneers in 1798, Bowling Green was the provisional capital of Confederate Kentucky during the American Civil War. The city was the subject of the 1967 Everly Brothers song ""Bowling Green"". In the 21st century,"
"Corydon, Kentucky Corydon () is a home rule-class city and former coal town in Henderson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 720 at the 2010 census. Settled in 1848, the city is named for the hero of the 19th-century song ""Pastoral Elegy"" who was himself named for a lovesick shepherd in Virgil's ""Eclogues"". Corydon is located in western Henderson County at (37.741459, -87.706774). U.S. Route 60 is Corydon's Main Street, leading northeast to Henderson, the county seat, and southwest to Morganfield. According to the United States Census Bureau, Corydon has a total area of , all land. As of"
"park and several dozen new homes. The David School is featured in the six-hour documentary film ""Country Boys"" which was broadcast in ""Frontline"" on PBS, about two residents, Chris and Cody, and their life in a poor, rural mountain town. David, Kentucky David is an unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States along County Route 404. Located in the Appalachian Mountains, it lies approximately southeast of Lexington. The town was named for David L. Francis, president of Princess Elkhorn Coal Company which originally built and owned the town. It bears the postal ZIP code 41616. The"
"Pembroke, Kentucky Pembroke is a home rule-class city in Christian County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 869 as of the 2010 U.S. Census. It is part of the Clarksville, Tennessee metropolitan area. The town was settled in 1836 and named for Pembroke Somerset, Esq., a character in Jane Porter's 1803 novel ""Thaddeus of Warsaw"", by Dr. Lunsford Lindsay, a local store owner. It was incorporated as a city in 1869. Pembroke is located in eastern Christian County at (36.774633, -87.356361). U.S. Route 41 passes through the town as Nashville Street, leading northwest to Hopkinsville, the county seat,"
"city, and former capital Lexington, is named for Lexington, Massachusetts, site of one of the first battles of the Revolution. As the first ""new"" west for the Patriots, Kentucky was situated in the Western theater of the American Revolutionary War. Bryan's Station is the fort built there during the last year of the war for defense against the British and their Native American allies. Kentucky was a battleground during the war. The Battle of Blue Licks, one of the last major battles of the Revolution, was fought there; the Americans were defeated. After Kentucky County was legislatively created on December"
"Bonnieville, Kentucky Bonnieville is a home rule-class city in Hart County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 255 at the 2010 census. Founded in 1849, the town was originally known as Bacon Creek, for the stream that runs through the city. It is rumored that the name was changed to Bonnieville because of the popularity of the song ""My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean"". On December 26, 1862, the Confederate John Hunt Morgan sent a detachment from Upton to the bridge over Bacon Creek in Bonnieville. A brief firefight with a detachment of the 2nd Michigan Volunteer Cavalry"
"floods during its lifespan, it survived all the floods of its history. Numerous cover versions of the song have been recorded. Paradise, Kentucky Paradise was a small town in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, United States. The town was located 10.5 miles east-north-east of Greenville and was formerly called Stom's Landing (sometimes incorrectly spelled Stum). It was once a trading post along the Green River, but it no longer exists. It was torn down in 1967 by the Tennessee Valley Authority due to health concerns over its proximity to a nearby coal-burning electric plant, Paradise Fossil Plant. Paradise was settled in the"
"Louisville, Kentucky Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States. It is one of two cities in Kentucky designated as first-class, the other being Lexington, the state's second-largest city. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County. Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachian Mountains. It is named after King Louis XVI of France. Sited beside the Falls of the Ohio, the only major obstruction to"
"Theodore Brown House The Theodore Brown House is a historic building in St. Matthews, Kentucky, a part of the Louisville metropolitan area. It was built in the 1850s and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Originally named Woodview, the house was built by Theodore Brown (1821–1899), a prominent farmer. The property includes a main house and carriage house. The mansion was built in the Gothic Revival style using bricks that were made on the property. In 1920, the property was sold and renamed Woodhaven by the Monohan family, who owned it until the 1970s. When the"
"commissioners' meeting (1798), which named the town ""Bolin Green"" after the Bowling Green in New York City, where patriots had pulled down a statue of King George III and used the lead to make bullets during the American Revolution. According to the ""Encyclopedia of Kentucky"", the name was derived from Bowling Green, Virginia, from where early migrants had come, or the personal ""ball alley game"" of founder Robert Moore. Early records indicate that the city name was also spelled ""Bowlingreen"". By 1810, Bowling Green had 154 residents. Growth in steamboat commerce and the proximity of the Barren River increased Bowling"
"popular film starring Jane Fonda; Night Comes to the Cumberlands (1962) by Harry Caudill, which led to The War on Poverty, and others. Thomas Merton lived most of his life and wrote most of his books during his time as a monk at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani near Bardstown, Kentucky. Hunter S. Thompson is also a native of the state. In recent years, several writers from Kentucky have published widely read and critically acclaimed books. These authors include Wendell Berry, Silas House, Barbara Kingsolver, Maurice Manning, and Bobbie Ann Mason. Well-known playwrights from Kentucky include Marsha Norman"
"Port William (Wendell Berry) Port William, Kentucky is a fictional rural town found in each of the novels, short stories, and some poems by Wendell Berry. The larger region, set along the western bank of the Kentucky River, consists of Port William proper and several outlying farms and settlements around the also-fictional Dawe's Landing, Squire's Landing, Goforth, and Cotman Ridge. The town is set about ""twelve miles or better"" south of the fictional town of Hargrave and the Ohio River. It is generally acknowledged that Port William is a fiction inspired by Berry's own hometown of Port Royal, Kentucky—and that"
"the poverty line, including 32.1% of those under age 18 and 21.4% of those age 65 or over. Pembroke, Kentucky Pembroke is a home rule-class city in Christian County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 869 as of the 2010 U.S. Census. It is part of the Clarksville, Tennessee metropolitan area. The town was settled in 1836 and named for Pembroke Somerset, Esq., a character in Jane Porter's 1803 novel ""Thaddeus of Warsaw"", by Dr. Lunsford Lindsay, a local store owner. It was incorporated as a city in 1869. Pembroke is located in eastern Christian County at (36.774633,"
"Hargrave is the fictional form of Carrollton, Kentucky, a larger town located at the confluence of the Kentucky and Ohio rivers. Carrollton itself was originally known as Port William. Each of Berry's fictional works is set in and around Port William. There are to date eight novels, fifty-one short stories, and fifteen poems that touch on the people and life of the place. The chronology of the tales stretches from 1888 to 2008. Within these stories a reader encounters both momentous and ordinary events in the lives of the Beechum, Feltner, Coulter, and Catlett families, individuals of which, along with"
"chosen due to a nickname for Bowling Green taken from an 1892 speech by Henry Watterson. Watterson, there to commemorate Fountain Square Park as the city's first park, opined that Bowling Green might come to be known as the ""beautiful park city."" Local businesses widely adopted the nickname until the town of Glasgow Junction, about 20 miles north, changed its name to Park City, Kentucky, and the now-confusing nickname fell from local favor. ""The Daily News"" acquired ""The Amplifier"", a local arts monthly, in 2007. The Daily News (Kentucky) The Daily News is a daily newspaper based in Bowling Green,"
"Kuttawa, Kentucky Kuttawa is a home rule-class city in Lyon County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 649 as of the 2010 U.S. census, up from 596 in 2000. Former Ohio governor Charles Anderson founded the town on land he purchased in 1866. Originally spelled Cuttawa and Kittawa, Kuttawa seems to have been the name of a Cherokee village near the site, whose meaning is a matter of dispute: it has been variously translated as ""beautiful"", ""city in the woods"", and ""great wilderness"". The city was formally incorporated by the state assembly in 1872, the same year it"
"Hiawatha, Kansas Hiawatha (Ioway: ""Hári Wáta"" pronounced ) is the largest city and county seat of Brown County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,172. Hiawatha was founded in 1857, making it one of the oldest towns in the state. John M. Coe, John P. Wheller, and Thomas J. Drummond were instrumental in organizing the city, and the site was staked out February 17, 1857. B.L. Rider reportedly was responsible for naming Hiawatha, taking the young Indian's name from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, ""The Song of Hiawatha"". Hiawatha became the Brown County Seat in"
"Brodhead, Kentucky Brodhead is a home rule-class city in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 1,211 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Richmond–Berea Micropolitan Statistical Area. Brodhead has been noted for its unusual place name. What is now Brodhead was originally a stagecoach stop and drover's stable known as Stigalls Station. When the L&N Railroad reached the area in early 1868, a train station was established, and the town was given its current name. The town is believed to have been named for the contractor responsible for building the rail line in the"
"My Old Kentucky Home State Park My Old Kentucky Home State Park is a state park located in Bardstown, Kentucky. The park's centerpiece is Federal Hill, a farm owned by United States Senator John Rowan in 1795. During the Rowan family's occupation, the mansion became a meeting place for local politicians and hosted several visiting dignitaries. The farm is best known for its association with American composer Stephen Foster's anti-slavery ballad ""My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night"". Foster was a cousin of the Rowan family, and was likely inspired to write the ballad both by Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel"
"Junction City, Kentucky Junction City is a home rule-class city in Boyle County on its border with Lincoln County in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Junction City's population was 2,241 at the 2010 U.S. census. It is part of the Danville Micropolitan Statistical Area. Junction City began when the Louisville and Nashville Railroad reached the area. It was originally known as ""Goresburg"" for the proprietors of the Gore Hotel. The Gore post office opened in 1880, and was renamed Goresburg in 1882. The town was renamed ""Junction City"" when the Cincinnati Southern Railway reached town later that year, its tracks"
"Warsaw, Kentucky Warsaw is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Gallatin County, Kentucky, United States, located along the Ohio River. The name was suggested by a riverboat captain, who was reading ""Thaddeus of Warsaw"", by Jane Porter, when the city was being founded. The city had a population of 1,615 at the 2010 census, down from 1,811 at the 2000 census. Warsaw began as a landing on the Ohio River in 1798 called ""Great Landing"". In 1805, founder Colonel Robert Johnson surveyed and built a road from this landing to his former home in Scott County,"
"Columbus, Kentucky Columbus is a home rule-class city in Hickman County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 170 at the 2010 census, a decline from 229 in 2000. The city lies at the western end of the state, less than a mile from the Mississippi River. Columbus-Belmont State Park borders the city to the west. Columbus is the oldest town in Kentucky's Jackson Purchase. It was first settled on the Mississippi floodplain in 1804 and known as ""Iron Banks"" after the site's French name ""les rivages de fer"". The long-held local rumor that President Thomas Jefferson planned to"
"David, Kentucky David is an unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States along County Route 404. Located in the Appalachian Mountains, it lies approximately southeast of Lexington. The town was named for David L. Francis, president of Princess Elkhorn Coal Company which originally built and owned the town. It bears the postal ZIP code 41616. The U.S. Census of 2000 recorded a population of 435. Although it was formerly a company town, it was in many ways a model coal community with many amenities not typical of the region at the time including a swimming pool,"
"said that it may be that ""Burley improved on St. Paul … by telling a more comprehensive truth."" Port William (Wendell Berry) Port William, Kentucky is a fictional rural town found in each of the novels, short stories, and some poems by Wendell Berry. The larger region, set along the western bank of the Kentucky River, consists of Port William proper and several outlying farms and settlements around the also-fictional Dawe's Landing, Squire's Landing, Goforth, and Cotman Ridge. The town is set about ""twelve miles or better"" south of the fictional town of Hargrave and the Ohio River. It is"
"La Grange, Kentucky La Grange is a home rule-class city in Oldham County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 8,082 at the time of the 2010 U.S. census. It is the seat of its county. La Grange was founded in 1827 when the Oldham county seat was relocated from Westport at the suggestion of Maj. William Berry Taylor. The new town was named for Château de la Grange-Bléneau, the French country estate of Gilbert du Motier, the American Revolutionary hero better known as the Marquis de Lafayette, who had visited the area in 1824. For unknown reasons, the"
"today Mercer County, Kentucky. On June 16, 1774, the men established the first pioneer settlement in Kentucky, Harrod's Town. The men divided the land amongst them; Harrod chose an area about from the settlement proper, which he named Boiling Springs. On July 8, 1774, Shawnee attacked a small party of Harrod's in the Fontainbleau area, killing two men. The others escaped to the camp, some away. Just as Harrod's men had completed the settlement's first structures, Dunmore dispatched Daniel Boone to call them back from the frontier and into military service against some bands of Shawnee and Mingo in Lord"
"Sebree, Kentucky Sebree () is a home rule-class city in Webster County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 1,558 during the year 2000 U.S. Census. Sebree was founded as a railroad town in 1868, just ahead of the arrival of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in October. The town founders, William Scott and Col. E.G. Sebree, intended to name it Springdale after nearby natural springs, but the name was preëmpted by another community in Mason County. The post office was initially named McBride, but renamed for Col. Sebree (the first president of the St. Bernard Mining Company) in"
"and none of those over 64. Gratz, Kentucky Gratz is a home rule-class city in Owen County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 89 at the 2000 census. The population in 2010 was 78. A local post office was established on November 21, 1844 as ""Clay Lick"" due to its position above the Clay Lick Creek and Joseph W Rowlett served as the first Postmaster up until July 20, 1850. The post office was renamed ""Gratz"" in February 1851 after the town was named for Benjamin Gratz Brown, grandson of John Brown. 70 years after the post office"
"Brown Theatre The W. L. Lyons Brown Theatre, originally called the Brown Theatre, is a restored theatre dating back to 1925 that seats approximately 1,400 patrons in Louisville, Kentucky. The theatre still stands today and remains a testament to the glory days of Louisville's theatre district. The Theatre opened on October 5, 1925. The space was named for James Graham Brown, an Indiana native and longtime Louisville resident. Modeled after New York's famous Music Box Theatre, the space boasts a 40' x 40' stage. With the onset of the Great Depression, the Brown was leased to the Fourth Avenue Amusement"
"Bromley, Kentucky Bromley is a home rule-class city along the Ohio River in Kenton County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 838 at the 2000 census. Bromley is located at (39.082610, -84.560088). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and (26.19%) is water. Several Bromley streets bear the names of prominent Kentucky historical figures, including Shelby Street (Isaac Shelby), Boone Street (Daniel Boone) and Kenton Street (Simon Kenton). The settlement of Bromley can be traced to 1784, when Prettyman Merry received a land grant from the"
"surrounding land was developed, the house was nearly razed by developers. The house was saved from destruction and restored. Original features are still intact, including diamond windowpanes and 14-foot arched gothic doors. The main house and carriage house are now part of a bed and breakfast, The Inn at Woodhaven, that opened in 1993. Theodore Brown House The Theodore Brown House is a historic building in St. Matthews, Kentucky, a part of the Louisville metropolitan area. It was built in the 1850s and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Originally named Woodview, the house was built"
"Robards, Kentucky Robards () is a home rule-class city in Henderson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 515 at the 2010 census, down from 564 at the 2000 census. The name of the precinct has gone through three changes. In 1868 it was officially ""Robard's Station"". In 1880 it became ""Robard"", and in 1924 the final change made it ""Robards"". Robards is pronounced ""Robberds"". The early settlers of the area included Reuben Moss, George Robards, George Eakins, Bennett Sandefur, Jordan Moss, Enoch Spencer, Thomas Reidout, Ben Wall, Nathan Smith, T. W. Royster, James McMullin, and Samuel McMullin, Sr. As"