The Fayette County Cooperative Extension of the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment has partnered with The University Press of Kentucky on Kentucky Proud Evenings, a series of monthly author talks. These events will start at 6:00 pm at the Fayette County Extension Office (1140 Harry Sykes Way, Lexington).
In Randolph Paul Runyon's "The Mentelles: Mary Todd Lincoln, Henry Clay, and the Immigrant Family Who Educated Antebellum" author presents a joint biography of Augustus Waldemar and Charlotte Victoire Mentelle, immigrant from France who settled in Lexington, Kentucky in 1798 and opened a school that attracted students including future first lady, Mary Todd.