Author Emily Bingham to Lead a Reading and Q & A Session and Sign Copies of My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song

Sunday, May 22, 2022

Kick-off to Frazier Book Club, 1 p.m. (Book Club Members Only)

Public Event With Reading and Q & A, 2 p.m. (Free and Open to Public, Second Floor Classroom)

Book Signing in Museum Store, 2:45 p.m. (Free and Open to Public)

In the preface to My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song, her book to be released May 3, Emily Bingham says “My Old Kentucky Home” was never just a song: Its full history needs to be told and its full powers need to be understood. Bingham’s book explores the journey of Kentucky’s state song, originally titled “Poor Uncle Tom, Good-Night.” Stephen Foster, a white man, wrote the song in the 1850s about a Black man being sold downriver. Bingham goes on to say this music has a past informed by thousands of performances, enactments, critiques, and defenses that, over time, encapsulate the United States’ contradictory and contorted relationship to slavery and white supremacy.

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Copies of Bingham’s book will be on sale at the Frazier’s Museum Store.