Interview Subjects
Some of the people you’ll meet in Where the River Bends: A History of Northern Kentucky:
Walter Bailey
former employee, Beverly Hills Supper Club
Flower Mound, TX
Billy Bradford
Mayor of Elsmere
Ted Bushelman
Communications Director
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport
Roberta Campbell
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Raymond Walters College, University of Cincinnati
Jim Claypool
Professor Emeritus of History, Northern Kentucky University
Fred Cowan
Archaeologist
Cincinnati
Mike Farrell
Assistant Professor of Journalism and Director of the First Amendment Center
University of Kentucky
Bruce Ferguson
former Boone County Judge-Executive
Union
Robert Genheimer
Curator of Archaeology
Cincinnati Museum Center
Christine Godsey
Dinsmore Homestead Foundation
Burlington
Keith Griffler
Professor of African-American Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo
author of Frontline of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley
James Haley
author of Sam Houston
Austin, TX
Mike Hammons
President, Forward Quest
Covington
Ted Harris
lifelong resident of Covington
Tim Herrmann
Local History Librarian, Kenton County Public Library
Timothy Holian
Professor of German, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha
author of Over the Barrel: The Brewing History and Beer Culture of Cincinnati
Eric Jackson
Professor of History, Northern Kentucky University
author of the Northern Kentucky volume of the Black America Series
Thomas O. Jewett
Professor of Education, McKendree College
Lebanon, IL
James Klotter
Kentucky State Historian
Professor of History, Georgetown College
Jeannine Kreinbrink
Adjunct Professor of Archaeology, Northern Kentucky University
Project Manager, Battery Hooper Project
Karl Lietzenmayer
Editor, Northern Kentucky Heritage
Latonia
Peggy Mowbray
Interpreter, Monticello, the Home of Thomas Jefferson
Mary Northington
resident of Covington
James Ramage
Regents Professor of History, Northern Kentucky University
author of Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan
Jim Reis
Campbell County Historical Society
former columnist, Kentucky Post
Ken Reis
Campbell County Historical Society
Laurie Risch
Director, Behringer-Crawford Museum
Covington
Dave Shroeder
Interim Director, Kenton County Public Library
Frederick Stine, M.D.
former Campbell County Coroner
Fort Thomas
Kenneth B. Tankersley
Professor of Anthropology and Native American Studies Director, Northern Kentucky University
author of In Search of Ice Age Americans
Paul Tenkotte
Professor of History, Thomas More College
Editor, Northern Kentucky Encyclopedia
James Alexander Thom
author of Follow the River
Bloomington, IN
Don Tolzmann
Professor of German Studies, University of Cincinnati
Steven Weisenburger
Professor of English, Southern Methodist University
author of Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South (see the January 2003 bookclub@ket)
Lee Shai Weissbach
Professor of History, University of Louisville
author of Synagogues of Kentucky
Ann White
great-granddaughter of William Riedlin, owner of Bavarian Brewery
Erlanger
Jeffrey Williams
Professor of History and Chair, Department of History & Geography, Northern Kentucky University
George Wright
President, Prairie View A&M University
author of A History of Blacks in Kentucky, Volume 2
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Zerhusen
lifelong residents of Kenton County