From her rural Kentucky roots to the runways of New York, Mallory Quisenberry has stitched a career together by textile revival and personalization through her clothing brand, Green Folk Collective. Quisenberry, who grew up on a cattle farm outside of Frankfort, Kentucky, said she credits her agricultural upbringing and family’s quilting traditions for shaping her work as a heritage-inspired designer. Her designs have been featured at New York Fashion Week and the Kentucky Museum of Arts and...

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...