Seventeen-year-old Lida Pratt Hornsey gathered up her schoolbooks and scurried out the door of 75 North Broadway in Lexington, Kentucky on the morning of Tuesday, October 12, 1897.[1]  The shouts of her younger sister, Tommie, to wait up faded as her booted feet carried her down the cobblestone street.[2]  Lida tightly clasped her fur-trimmed cape... Continue Reading →