Knox Historical Museum

Vol. 27 No. 1 - Spring 2015

• Meet the Museum Staff: Douglas Bargo
• Red Summer 1919: The Context of The Black Expulsion
• Jakalyn Jackson Wins Arthur Historical Award
• Archie West's Unexpected Saturday Adventure

Vol. 27 No. 2 - Summer 2015

• Knox Central’s Back-to-Back Regional Basketball titles, by Michael C. Mills
• A Quilt as a Community Project, by Douglas Bargo
• Governor James and First Lady Nettie Black Centennial Celebration, by Thomas C. Clark
• Bert Scent Wins 2019 Susan Arthur Award, by Preshus Howard
• The Establishment of the Barbourville Pentecostal Orphanage, by William G. Martin
• Meet the Museum Staff: [3] David Cole
• Letters to the Editor
• Editorial: 2020 Daniel Boone Festival Cancelled, by C.R. Mitchell
• A List of Pentecostal and Holiness Women and Men Ministers of the Gospel, by Beulah Mealer

Vol. 27 No. 3 - Fall 2015

• Knox Countians on the Pandemic of 1918: The “Spanish Influenza” of a Hundred Years Ago, by Charles Reed Mitchell
• Home Schooling in the 1860s: A Memoir of a Civil War Education, by Judge Henry Cook Faulkner
• Knox County Politics Way Back When [campaign cards]
• 1948 Knox County Communities [center spread map of Knox County, KY]
• Meet the Museum Staff: [4] Cheryl Davis-Thompson

Vol. 27 No. 4 - Winter 2015

• The Home Front in Southeastern Kentucky during the Civil War: My Mother, Samantha Sharp Faulkner, [Part 1], by Judge Henry Cook Faulkner
• The Law Firms of Knox County, Kentucky in 1912, Advocate, 26 April 1912
• Meet the Museum Staff: [5] Dora Sue Oxendine Farmer
• Henry Cook Faulkner: A Biographical Sketch, by Dr. Claude W. Faulkner
• Mildred Ellen Smyth Faulkner, compiled by C.R. Mitchell
• “Our Garden of Girls,” a poem by Mrs. H.C. Faulkner
• Kenneth Herndon Tuggle, Lt. Governor of Kentucky, 1943-47, compiled by C.R. Mitchell The Neighbor Next Door [Kenneth Tuggle], by Jack Gibson

The spring issue of the Knox Historical Museum's quarterly magazine, The Knox Countian, is now available for purchase at the Museum in Barbourville or via the online Museum Store. The cost per magazine at the museum is $3 while the cost via the website is $3 plus 6 percent sales tax and a $1.25 shipping fee.

Cecil H. Wilson (1917-2008), longtime publisher of the Advocate newspaper, was the featured speaker at the Knox Historical Museum's meeting on February 12, 1990.

In his speech, Mr. Wilson focused on several topics, including the history of the Advocate and its editors and printers; Karl Bleyl of Union College as the man who created the idea for the Knox Historical Museum as well as the Boone Festival; Flem D. Sampson as businessman and stock owner of The Advocate; civic improvements and major public leaders; local papers and local history; missing issues of The Advocate files; Caleb Powers; and editorial decision-making.