David's Blog

The tiny southern West Virginia coal camp of Helen, where I grew up, was once thriving. Its two coal mines supported a population of more...

This is the second of two parts about football star Frank Goettge ("GET-chee"). You may want to read last Wednesday's post for context....

Football season two-part special: How the best fullback of his day nearly lost the war The Wednesday essays this week and next are...

It's late 1934. Major General Smedley Butler—nicknamed "The Fighting Hell-Devil" and "Old Gimlet Eye"—was the most decorated Marine of...

It wasn't long after Thomas Edison perfected the electric light that the more imaginative predicted a world with no dark corners—streets...

John Sherman Cooper was born in Somerset, Kentucky in 1901. A lifelong Republican, he studied at Centre College and Yale and received his...

Because of my work on the Chicago Heights true crime book, I get approached about researching other cold cases. Most don't go anywhere,...

I'm pleased to be named to the Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau for 2023-24. I'll be talking to schools, civic groups,...

Music writer Greil Marcus coined that phrase for a "strange yet familiar backdrop to our common cultural history," the "playground of...

Every Friday when I arrive at school, the cafeteria at Harrison elementary is buzzing with a chatter of a hundred third and fourth...

I was very happy to write and direct my radio play Three's a Charm for WEKU public radio's Theatre of the Mind series.