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Kenmil Place in Kentucky was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. Although the house was Italianate in style until its... renovation in 1923, it is significant for its Classical Revival style, popular in Kentucky from 1895 until 1950. The building's Italianate incarnation was built in 1869, and the house was known as Brighton. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in February, 2009. The property was the Highlighted Property of the Week when the National Park Service released its weekly list of February 20, 2009.
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Jeri Lynn Zimmermann Ryan is an American actress best known for her roles as the liberated Borg, Seven of Nine, on Star Trek: Voyager; Tara Cole on... Leverage; and Veronica "Ronnie" Cooke on Boston Public. She was also a regular on the science fiction show Dark Skies and the legal drama series Shark. She is currently starring as Dr. Kate Murphy on the ABC drama series Body of Proof. Ryan was born Jeri Lynn Zimmermann in Munich, West Germany, the daughter of Gerhard Florian "Jerry" Zimmermann, a Master Sergeant in the United States Army, and his wife Sharon, a social worker. She has one older brother, Mark. As a "military brat," Ryan grew up on Army posts in Kansas, Maryland, Hawaii, Georgia, and Texas. When she was eleven, her father retired from the Army, and the family settled in Paducah, Kentucky. She graduated from Lone Oak High School in 1986 , and then attended Northwestern University, where she was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority. In 1989, Ryan was chosen Miss Illinois. She was the third runner-up in the 1990 Miss America Pageant, winning the preliminary swimsuit competition.
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Joshua "J. D." Wilkes , and now a resident of Paducah, Kentucky, is an American visual artist, musician, and amateur filmmaker. Wilkes is a Kentucky... Colonel, an honorable title bestowed upon those with a connection to, or are famous residents of Kentucky, by the state's Governor. He is also an accomplished harmonica player, having recorded for such artists as Merle Haggard, John Carter Cash, Mike Patton, and Hank Williams III. He can also be spotted playing harmonica for Hank Williams III in the 2004 "American Masters" film Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues. Wilkes is known as the founder and only remaining original member of the Legendary Shack Shakers, formed in Nashville, Tennessee, in the late 90's. Wilkes' contributions to visual art include many sideshow banners and comic strips. His "Head Cheese" strip was seen in the Nashville Metromix weekly from 2005-2008. Other works by Wilkes have been seen in Juxtapoz, Snicker, ALARM Magazine, and TopShelfComix.com. Wilkes illustrated a book titled "Spookiest Stories Ever" for the University Press of Kentucky, released in 2010.
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Marcy Lynn Walker , also known as Marcy Smith, is an American actress known for her roles on daytime soap operas. Her most famous roles are those of... Liza Colby on All My Children, which she played from 1981–1984 and again 1995–2005, and as Eden Capwell on Santa Barbara from 1984–1991. Walker was born in Paducah, Kentucky and traveled the world during her youth. In 1979, she graduated from Triad High School in Troy, Illinois, where she was active in the drama club. She also attended Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, California in 1975–1978. Marcy has one son, Taylor, from her third husband, Stephan Collins. In 1999, she married Doug Smith and goes by the name Marcy Smith in her private life. She was once married to actor Billy Warlock. In a 1998 interview with Soap Opera Digest, she explained the breakup. In 1981, Walker was cast in her first acting job as Liza Colby on the ABC Television soap opera, All My Children. She was honored with two Outstanding Supporting Actress Daytime Emmy nominations in 1983 and 1984. After a successful three-year run, she decided to leave the show for other opportunities.
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Rumer Glenn Willis is an American actress, the oldest daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore and the stepdaughter of Emma Heming. Born in Paducah,... Kentucky, where her father, Bruce Willis was filming In Country at the time, she was named for British author Rumer Godden. Her mother, actress Demi Moore, hired a cameraman to videotape her birth. She has two younger sisters, Scout LaRue Willis and Tallulah Belle Willis and a younger half-sister Mabel Ray Willis . Raised in Hailey, Idaho, Willis enrolled as a freshman at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan. In January 2004, she enrolled as a sophomore at Wildwood Secondary School in Los Angeles, California. She attended the University of Southern California for one semester before dropping out. In 1995, Willis made her film debut alongside her mother in Now and Then. The following year she appeared in Striptease . She has worked with her father twice, in The Whole Nine Yards in 2000 and Hostage in 2005. In 2008, Willis ventured into the role of spokesperson for Ocean Pacific.
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Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was an American author, humorist, and columnist who lived in New York and authored more than 60 books and 300 short stories.... Cobb was the second of four children born to Kentucky natives in Paducah, Kentucky. His grandfather Reuben Saunders, M.D., is credited with discovering in 1873 that hypodermic use of morphine-atropine halted cholera. Cobb was raised in Paducah, where the events and people of his childhood became the basis for much of his later works. Cobb was educated in public and private elementary schools and then entered William A. Cade's Academy intending to pursue a law career. When he was 16, his grandfather died and his father became an alcoholic. Forced to quit school and find work, he began his writing career. He started in journalism on the Paducah Daily News at age seventeen, and became the nation's youngest managing news editor at nineteen. He later worked at the Louisville Evening Post for a year and a half. His anecdotal memoir "Exit Laughing," includes a firsthand account of the assassination of Kentucky Governor William Goebel in 1900 and the trials of his killers.
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Samuel James "Sam" Champion is the weather anchor of ABC's Good Morning America and weather editor of ABC News. Champion was born in Paducah,... Kentucky to Sylvia and James H. Champion. He has one sibling, a sister name Teresa. His father, who passed away in 2010, was a Lt. Colonel in the US Marine Corps and served in Vietnam. Sam has a B.A. in broadcast news from Eastern Kentucky University, where he interned at WKYT-TV in Lexington, Kentucky. Champion is a veteran of ABC. He was also a veteran weatherman for WABC-TV's Eyewitness News in the New York City media market since 1988, and has continued to do fill-in work on WABC-TV since taking the network job full-time. He currently works on Good Morning America as a weatherman, making reportedly $1.5 million per year. He was also seen on a segment of World News with Diane Sawyer on January 4, 2010. On April 7, 2012, he debuted as host of Sea Rescue, an educational and informational program in Litton's Weekend Adventure that focuses on the rescue, rehabilitation, and in many instances release of animals back into wildlife. He worked at WPSD-TV in Paducah, Kentucky, and WJKS in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Rumer Glenn Willis is an American actress, the oldest daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore and the stepdaughter of Emma Heming. Born in Paducah,... Kentucky, where her father, Bruce Willis was filming In Country at the time, she was named for British author Rumer Godden. Her mother, actress Demi Moore, hired a cameraman to videotape her birth. She has two younger sisters, Scout LaRue Willis and Tallulah Belle Willis and a younger half-sister Mabel Ray Willis . Raised in Hailey, Idaho, Willis enrolled as a freshman at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan. In January 2004, she enrolled as a sophomore at Wildwood Secondary School in Los Angeles, California. She attended the University of Southern California for one semester before dropping out. In 1995, Willis made her film debut alongside her mother in Now and Then. The following year she appeared in Striptease . She has worked with her father twice, in The Whole Nine Yards in 2000 and Hostage in 2005. In 2008, Willis ventured into the role of spokesperson for Ocean Pacific.
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Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was an American author, humorist, and columnist who lived in New York and authored more than 60 books and 300 short stories.... Cobb was the second of four children born to Kentucky natives in Paducah, Kentucky. His grandfather Reuben Saunders, M.D., is credited with discovering in 1873 that hypodermic use of morphine-atropine halted cholera. Cobb was raised in Paducah, where the events and people of his childhood became the basis for much of his later works. Cobb was educated in public and private elementary schools and then entered William A. Cade's Academy intending to pursue a law career. When he was 16, his grandfather died and his father became an alcoholic. Forced to quit school and find work, he began his writing career. He started in journalism on the Paducah Daily News at age seventeen, and became the nation's youngest managing news editor at nineteen. He later worked at the Louisville Evening Post for a year and a half. His anecdotal memoir "Exit Laughing," includes a firsthand account of the assassination of Kentucky Governor William Goebel in 1900 and the trials of his killers.
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Steven Curtis Chapman is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, actor, author, and social activist. After starting his career in the... late 1980s as a singer/songwriter of contemporary Christian music, Chapman has since been recognized as one of the most prolific singers in the genre, releasing more than 20 albums to date. Chapman has also won five Grammy awards and 56 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, more than any other artist in history. His seven "Artist of the Year" Dove Awards, his latest in 2009, are also an industry record. As of 2007, Chapman has sold more than 10 million albums and has 8 RIAA-certified Gold or Platinum albums. Chapman is also a vocal advocate for adoption, along with his wife Mary Beth. Together, they have started a charity organization called Show Hope , that mobilizes individuals and communities to care for orphans through its international orphan care work as well as adoption aid grants to help put more orphans from overseas and the U.S. in loving, forever families.
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Reynaldo Raul Rosales is an American actor.

Jean Byron was an American film, television, and stage actress. She is best known for the role of Natalie Lane, Patty Lane's mother in The Patty... Duke Show. Jean Byron, was born on December 10, 1925 in Paducah, Kentucky, and her family moved to Louisville, Kentucky when she was still quite young, and then to California when she was 19 during World War II. She appeared briefly as a singer on radio, but studied drama from 1947 to 1950. Then she did a stint with the Players Ring, a theatre group that did not pay well, but which did offer the performers needed exposure. It was here in a play titled Merrily We Roll Along, that she came to the attention of Harry Sauber, elderly talent adviser for Sam Katzman. She was asked to read from the script and imitate a British accent, which she did. And right then and there she got her union card. When asked her name, she replied Imogene Burkhart. Katzman didn’t care for it, so she volunteered the stage name, Jean Byron, which she had been using, and which the Columbia brass found more palatable and signed with Columbia Pictures, where she chose Jean Byron as her stage moniker.
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Chad Cromwell is an American drummer, best known for his work with Neil Young and with Mark Knopfler. Cromwell was born in Paducah, Kentucky, and... three years later moved with his family to Memphis, Tennessee. In 1990, he moved to Nashville, got married and started a family, and built his recording career. Cromwell started recording and touring with Joe Walsh in 1986, appearing on two albums, Got Any Gum? and Ordinary Average Guy. In 1987, Cromwell began a collaboration with songwriter Neil Young. The initial sessions became Neil Young & The Bluenotes. Since then he has recorded and toured with Young on several occasions, and appears on albums such as Freedom , Prairie Wind Living with War and Chrome Dreams II . He has also appeared in Heart of Gold, a documentary capturing the debut of Neil Young's album, Prairie Wind . This was filmed at the Ryman auditorium and directed by Jonathan Demme. Cromwell is also known for his contributions to Mark Knopfler's solo albums Golden Heart , Sailing to Philadelphia , The Ragpicker's Dream and Shangri-La .
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