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Cargando... Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community (Kentucky Remembered)por Douglas A. Boyd
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A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. ""Craw's"" reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood with the city's Capital Plaza in the mid-1960s. Douglas A. Boyd's Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community traces the evolution of the controversial community that ultimately saw four-hundred families displaced. Using oral histories and firsthand memories, Boyd not only provide No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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a) have a whole chapter on prostitution with snippets from the oral interviews to support it? Why include those interviews if the point is to show the other side of Craw?
b) say the residents seemed to be proud of the corruption?
c) dwell on John Fallis and draw out the former residents comments that said they admired him?
d) have the admiration for the teachers, Mayo-Underwood school, churches, community, etc. be such a small part of the book?
e) imply that interviewer led the interviews to only the positive parts?
The point was made over and over in the first part of the book about what a terrible, well-deserved reputation Craw had - why not have the rest of the book show a difference?
Because sex, violence and corruption sells books! (