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Crawfish Bottom - Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community (Hardcover)
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Crawfish Bottom - Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community (Hardcover)
Series: Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series
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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 provides a record of a vanished neighborhood and its culture
but also demonstrates how this type of study enhances the
historical record. A former Frankfort police officer describes
Craw's residents as a "rough class of people, who didn't mind
killing or being killed." In Crawfish Bottom, the former residents
of Craw acknowledge the popular misconceptions about their
community but offer a richer and more balanced view of the past.
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