Patterson Tilford Frazer Jr. was born on a tenant farm at Allensville in 1889. He earned his medical degree in Nashville and later practiced medicine in Hopkinsville, where he installed a swimming pool for black residents.
As part of the Chitlin' Circuit, Hopkinsville was host to Little Richard, Ray Charles, Ike and Tina Turner and many other famous Black musicians from the 1930s through the '60s.
An account related to Warren about John Wesley Venable Jr., the Hopkinsville man who assembled a model circus in his home, is believed to have inspired the character Bolton Lovehart in the short story.
A new film, about a Kentucky war hero and Medal of Honor recipient, is set for 7 p.m. Monday, while several on-demand programs are available on the KET website.
The theater opened in May 1928 to show silent movies accompanied by musicians in the orchestra pit between the stage and the auditorium. It closed within a year to be updated for sound movies.
On Jan. 25, 1945, he volunteered to be a forward observer to stop a German attack but had to call in artillery on his own position, offering his life for his country. He survived in a ditch in a French province and later returned home to a Kentucky farm with no electricity or running water.
