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The original title for the first draft of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind was "Tote The Weary Load", a lyric from "My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!" [ 46 ] Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler sing the song in Chapter 17, and the lyric "a few more days for to tote the weary load" appears in the text of the novel as Scarlett is ...
My Old Kentucky Home State Park is a state park located in Bardstown, Kentucky, United States. The park's centerpiece is Federal Hill, a former plantation home owned by United States Senator John Rowan in 1795. [4] During the Rowan family's occupation, the mansion became a meeting place for local politicians and hosted several visiting dignitaries.
My Old Kentucky Home is a short animation film originally released in June 1926, by Max and Dave Fleischer of Fleischer Studios as one of the Song Car-Tunes series. [1] The series, between May 1924 and September 1926, eventually totaled 36 films, of which 19 were made with sound.
But at the turn of the century, after slavery had been outlawed, "My Old Kentucky Home'' took on new meaning within the white population, becoming a Kentucky tourist anthem and eventually, in 1928 ...
Kentucky State song: "My Old Kentucky Home" Stephen Foster: 1928 [1] Bluegrass song: "Blue Moon of Kentucky" Bill Monroe: 1988 [1] [34] Louisiana "You Are My Sunshine" Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell: 1977 [1] State march: "Louisiana My Home Sweet Home" [35] Castro Carazo Sammie McKenzie and Lou Levoy: 1952 [1] State environmental song: "The ...
Churchill Downs Racetrack will continue its tradition of playing “My Old Kentucky Home” at the start of the Kentucky Derby despite criticism of the song about American slavery. The Kentucky ...
Opinion: KY's state song, 'My Old Kentucky Home,' evokes a racist past and should be banished to the archives of historical shame. We need a new song.
"My Old Kentucky Home" , season 3, episode 3 of the television series Mad Men (2009) Old Kentucky Home , the popular name of Negro Life at the South (1859), a painting by Eastman Johnson Old Kentucky Home , a song by Randy Newman from 12 Songs (1970) that mocks the gentility of Foster's song