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Roger Hardesty
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“A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet”
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“Lexington wasn't a great city, like Philadelphia or New York, but around the Courthouse square, and along Main Street and Broadway, brick buildings reared two and three stories tall, and it was possible to buy almost anything: breeze-soft silks from France that came upriver from New Orleans, fine wines and cigars, pearl necklaces, and canes with ivory handles shaped like parrots or dogs'-heads or (in the case of Mary's older friend Cash Clay) scantily dressed ladies (but Cash was careful not to carry that one in company).”
― The Emancipator's Wife: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln
― The Emancipator's Wife: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln
“Lexington, Kentucky looks like paradise. Acres of grass as green and tender as a golf course putting green surround hilltop mansions. New Circle Road--a beltway enveloping the city's heartland like a moat--attempts to separate the wealthy landowners from the encroaching strip centers and fast-food joins that are symbolic of the rest of the state .... Combining the traditional feelings of Southerners with the uniquely gorgeous landscape of the bluegrass, Lexingtonians consider themselves and their region the cream of the crop--not only of Kentucky, but also of the nation.”
― The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs and Murder
― The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs and Murder
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