Taking the Town

Taking the Town: Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880-1917 (The Thomas D. Clark Studies in Education)

Taking the Town was written by and Kolan Thomas Morelock. The 434 page book was published by University Press of Kentucky in 2009 (originally in 2008) with an ISBN 10 of 0813138833. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Taking the Town mentions 1 serial killers including Richard Angelo. The author Kolan Thomas Morelock has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

The relationship between a town and its local institutions of higher education is often fraught with turmoil. The complicated tensions between the identity of a city and the character of a university can challenge both communities. Lexington, Kentucky, displays these characteristic conflicts, with two historic educational institutions within its city limits: Transylvania University, the first college west of the Allegheny Mountains, and the University of Kentucky, formerly "State College." An investigative cultural history of the town that called itself "The Athens of the West," Taking the Town: Collegiate and Community Culture in Lexington, Kentucky, 1880--1917 depicts the origins and development of this relationship at the turn of the twe...