Meanwhile, in 1949...

Bill Scott and Patrolman Joe Riddell capture a sow running loose on West Main Street, February 1949. The sow was unharmed during the apprehension.

There is no evidence of an epidemic of pigs running loose in Lexington in 1949, but as Mr. Hartley said:"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."

Image 1.04-1777, John C. Wyatt Lexington Herald-Leader Collection

Learn-To-Swim Course at Joyland

Free swimming lessons offered by The Lexington Herald-Leader at Joyland Amusement Park, 1950 June 6. Joyland Park operated from 1923 until 1964. The area it occupied is currently a residential neighborhood that retained the Joyland name, northeast of the Lexington downtown center.


-John C. Wyatt Lexington Herald-Leader photographs.

2013 Black History Month exhibit by Reinette Jones