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Sons of Good Fathers, by Jonathon Sturgeon

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We've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure Collages by Vanessa Saba. Source images: An engraving from Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe, by François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1841. Courtesy Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris © Bridgeman Images; A map of Kentucky drawn from observations by John Filson, 1793 (detail). Courtesy Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Kentuckiana is cursed. François-René de Chateaubriand, on vacation from the French Revolution, coursed down the Ohio River and got misty-eyed about the “magnificent country” of Kentucky, “which means ‘river of blood,’ ” he would scribble, wrongly. The lamplight of Louisville, seen from the river, became a chain of beacon fires bringing news from Old Europe, where King Louis XVI, who gave the city its name, would be beheaded. The aristocrat was scared and confused, yet dazzled by the river valley, so he plagued it with mythic questions: Will the European generations on its banks prove more virtuou

June 2025 Issue [Letter from Louisville] Sons of Good Fathers On some killings in Kentucky by Jonathon Sturgeon , Collages by Vanessa Saba. Source images: An engraving from Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe , by François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1841. Courtesy Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris © Bridgeman Images; A map of Kentucky drawn from observations by John Filson, 1793 (detail). Courtesy Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library [Letter from Louisville] Sons of Good Fathers On some killings in Kentucky by Jonathon Sturgeon , Adjust Share Kentuckiana is cursed. François-René de Chateaubriand,

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