ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This has been an intriguing detective hunt. My thanks go to Sarah Hubbard, director of the Kentucky Room and her staff at the Lexington Public Library; Becky Ryan, director of the library, and her staff at the Keeneland Association Library—a very beautiful place to conduct research; Eric Brooks, curator at Ashland, Henry Clay’s home; Chris Goodletter, curator at the Kentucky Derby Museum; local historian Bill Ambrose (especially for sharing some not-yet-published material); Patrick Lewis of the Kentucky Historical Society; Aaron Genton at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill; the Adelin Wichman estate for permission to use her portraits of African American jockeys; and Andy Mead and Pace Emmons for taking photographs of the portraits at what proved to be difficult angles and the technical prowess to adjust for the angles; as well as Fran Taylor and Wendy Bright. I want to acknowledge the encouragement of the late Dr. Ken Kinghorn, professor of church history and a United Methodist historian, and his regular question: “Well, what did you write this week?” I also thank my wife, Martina, for allowing me to do a forced occupation of the dining-room table with books stacked all about while I was writing.
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