As Foster wrote it, “My Old Kentucky Home” is actually the lament of an enslaved person who has been forcibly separated from his family and his painful longing to return to the cabin with his ...

At some point, “My Old Kentucky Home” quit being the old slave cabin that Foster wrote about and became the stately plantation home where the white people lived near Bardstown known as Federal ...

Stephen Foster wrote "My Old Kentucky Home" in between the years of 1852 and 1853. More than 170 years later, controversy still surrounds the track, which is a staple at the Kentucky Derby.

Famous for being the birthplace of bourbon, America's native spirit, the small town is renowned for the Federal Hill mansion, ...

Inspiration Flows From Abraham Lincoln’s Old Kentucky Home It isn’t the family’s real log cabin, but it does give visitors a feel for the 16th president’s upbringing. By ...

When colorful Aunt Bertha bows her head with a few of her kinfolk at Christmastime for a possum stew meal blessing in her old Kentucky cabin, she ladles out a perspective as down-home as her very ...