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Mountain Edition: Thursday, March 24, 2022

Mountain Edition: Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Riding in an elevator used to be dangerous business — until Elisha Otis, of Otis Elevator Company fame, invented a device that could prevent a passenger elevator from falling if its rope broke. It debuted precisely 160 years ago at the E.V. Haughwout and Company store in Manhattan on March 23, 1857. (time.com)

Mountain Edition: Friday, March 25, 2022

John Tyler (1790-1862) served as America’s 10th president from 1841 to 1845. He assumed office after the death of President William Henry Harrison (1773-1841), who passed away from pneumonia after just a month in the White House.

Snap recipients in the commonwealth are concerned about moving forward after the COVID state of emergency ended last week; a bill to abolish the death penalty for certain people is headed to the governor’s desk; and Kentucky’s attorney general is not ruling out a run for governor. Mountain Edition, weekday afternoons @ 5pm on WMKY.

Nothin’ But The Blues Top 20 (March 2022)

In 1916 the British composer Hubert Parry wrote a song that has become England’s unofficial National Anthem, and synonymous with some of the Royal Albert Hall’s most celebrated events – Jerusalem.

Maria Reynolds was the wife of James Reynolds, and was Alexander Hamilton's mistress between 1791 and 1792. She became the object of much scrutiny after the release of the Reynolds Pamphlet and central in America's first political sex scandal.

The Kentucky Center for Traditional Music is planning for a free concert in Morehead Wednesday and Morehead State’s English department is hosting an event on alternative literature. Mountain Edition, weekday afternoons @ 5pm on WMKY.