With an expression so permanent, I knew my great uncle by the gray ink which illustrated his features. With a delicate gesture, I knew more by opening his thick wooden chest and holding his World War II uniform, metal pins and old letters concerning “Lemuel Birkhead Wright,” a name shared by my younger brother. Lemuel Birkhead Wright, a senior ROTC student at Western Kentucky University, in spring of 1942. Shortly after, he began his active military career. Photo provided by Elena Wright. The...

As the curtains closed on another spectacular show of March Madness, and sadly, too, Kentucky basketball, I began to consider: who paved...

Photographs have solidified their significance in my life as my favorite way of reminiscing memories. No matter their quality, recency,...