• Steve Roush 26 August 2015

    Ghost Stories: A special sword

    As we discussed last time, Nelson Barrere became a lawyer and a U.S. congressman, Thomas Jefferson Barrere operated a store in Maysville, Ky., and Morgan Barrere became a successful businessman and farmer and eventually took over operations of the Barrere Tavern and Inn.
  • Steve Roush 22 July 2015
    Ghost Stories: George Washington Barrere, a man of many hats
    George Washington Barrere and his family left Clinton County in November of 1802 and settled in New Market in Highland County. By my math, that was a little more than 212 years ago.
  • Steve Roush 21 January 2015
    How sweet is victory if success is watered down?
    Sports can be a microcosm of life. I was never the best player by any stretch of the imagination, and I’ve found out in the “real world” that while I’m good at some things, there are folks out there who are better.
  • Steve Roush 21 January 2015
    How sweet is victory if success is watered down?
    Sports can be a microcosm of life. I was never the best player by any stretch of the imagination, and I’ve found out in the “real world” that while I’m good at some things, there are folks out there who are better.
  • Steve Roush 4 November 2014
    Caspar, the famous ghost, Part VI

    It was 9:30 a.m. on July 26, 1845. Just two hours earlier, Lt. Caspar Wever Collins was dressed in his new uniform, smoking a cigar and riding off in a “jaunty and debonair” manner. Now, the 20-year-old Hillsboro native was dead, and Platte Bridge Station commander Major Martin Anderson, who had ordered Collins and 25 men to ride off after Anderson had his morning breakfast, called an officers conference.

  • Steve Roush 4 November 2014
    Caspar, the famous ghost, Part VI

    It was 9:30 a.m. on July 26, 1845. Just two hours earlier, Lt. Caspar Wever Collins was dressed in his new uniform, smoking a cigar and riding off in a “jaunty and debonair” manner. Now, the 20-year-old Hillsboro native was dead, and Platte Bridge Station commander Major Martin Anderson, who had ordered Collins and 25 men to ride off after Anderson had his morning breakfast, called an officers conference.

  • Steve Roush 17 September 2014
    Ghost stories from where I grew up, the conclusion
    As the flames reach toward the sky on that day 83 years ago, let’s close the book on the stories from the place where I grew up. Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon them. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
  • Steve Roush 17 September 2014
    Ghost stories from where I grew up, the conclusion
    As the flames reach toward the sky on that day 83 years ago, let’s close the book on the stories from the place where I grew up. Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon them. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
  • Steve Roush 31 August 2014
    Ghost stories from where I grew up, Part VIII
    For many, many years during my four decades on this earth, that old portrait hung in a room in the home that Joshua and Jeannette Brown built in 1848. When I was just a child, the room was our family room. Today, for all intents and purposes, it’s an office.
  • Steve Roush 31 August 2014
    Ghost stories from where I grew up, Part VIII
    For many, many years during my four decades on this earth, that old portrait hung in a room in the home that Joshua and Jeannette Brown built in 1848. When I was just a child, the room was our family room. Today, for all intents and purposes, it’s an office.
  • Steve Roush 21 August 2014
    Ghost stories from where I grew up, Part VII
    Ladies and gentlemen, in the summer of 1889, nearly a year after John Brown was fatally shot at the Parker House in uptown Hillsboro, a jury of 12 men found Marion DeCalb Britton, Brown’s brother-in-law, guilty of second-degree murder.
  • Steve Roush 21 August 2014
    Ghost stories from where I grew up, Part VII
    Ladies and gentlemen, in the summer of 1889, nearly a year after John Brown was fatally shot at the Parker House in uptown Hillsboro, a jury of 12 men found Marion DeCalb Britton, Brown’s brother-in-law, guilty of second-degree murder.
  • Steve Roush 14 August 2014
    Ghost stories from where I grew up, Part VI
    As we let those 12 men discuss the murder case in the jury room back in June of 1889, let’s take a few moments to examine the case that was presented in a packed courtroom at the Highland County Courthouse.
  • Steve Roush 14 August 2014
    Ghost stories from where I grew up, Part VI
    As we let those 12 men discuss the murder case in the jury room back in June of 1889, let’s take a few moments to examine the case that was presented in a packed courtroom at the Highland County Courthouse.
  • Steve Roush 6 August 2014
    Ghost stories from where I grew up, Part V
    Ladies and gentlemen, as I write this, it’s the 126th anniversary of the day that John C. Brown was shot and mortally wounded at the Parker House in uptown Hillsboro.
  • Steve Roush 6 August 2014
    Ghost stories from where I grew up, Part V
    Ladies and gentlemen, as I write this, it’s the 126th anniversary of the day that John C. Brown was shot and mortally wounded at the Parker House in uptown Hillsboro.
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