Where the River Bends

World War II to the Present (1x3)

Fecha de emisión: Jun 06, 2015

•The WWII years, including another wave of anti-German sentiment and troop trains and pilot training in Northern Kentucky •The postwar suburban building boom and immigration from Appalachia and Germany •Father Anthony Deye and the civil rights movement •How Cincinnati’s new airport ended up in Kentucky •The growth of organized crime and attempts to clean up gambling and prostitution in Newport in the late 1950s/early ’60s •the construction of I-75 and its effects on area communities •Urban renewal and changes in the 1960s, including the inner-city demolition that made room for the IRS regional processing center; the closing of Coney Island; the founding of Northern Kentucky University (as Northern State College); the relocation of Villa Madonna College, now Thomas More College; and the building of the Florence Mall •The riverfront business and cultural renaissance of the 1980s and ’90s