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Eastern Standard - Mar. 6th, 2025

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Kentucky Hall of Fame inductees Crystal Wilkinson and Frank X Walker.
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Kentucky Hall of Fame inductees Crystal Wilkinson and Frank X Walker.

Crystal Wilkinson and Frank X Walker on being named to the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame. The erasure and resurrection of Julia Chinn, the enslaved Civil War era Scott County plantation manager who was the common-law wife of the ninth vice president of the United States, Richard Mentor Johnson. All about a podcast series on the Jessamine County Confederate Statue controversy. And how the art of Lexington sculptor John Tuska lives on in the classroom.

Tom Martin hosts Eastern Standard, a weekly radio magazine of interviews and stories about interesting people, places, and things happening in the Commonwealth.
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