Just another day in Kentucky

We are in Campbellsville, Kentucky waiting to start our winter job at Amazon.com. Today we had to drive to Bardstown for a drug test and since we were in the area, stopped at My Old Kentucky Home State Park. 

It’s claimed that Stephen Foster wrote the song after visiting this home.  I think the original lyrics were changed to the current version when it became the state song of Kentucky. 
A short film we saw seems to indicate that he wrote the song after reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin.


It was a song sung by slaves.. after having been sold ..had to leave the Kentucky Home they knew.  
Fredrick Douglas thought the song brought a new awareness in the northern states about slavery.
Stephen Foster also wrote Oh Susanna, Old Folks at Home (Swannee River), Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair (said to be written for his wife) and Beautiful Dreamer.