By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
A century. Five scores. Ten decades. However it’s phrased 100 years is both a vast span and a blink of time.
One hundred years ago humanity had not yet left the earth’s surface, in fact the airplane was just 11 years old. One hundred years ago Adolf Hitler is sentenced to, and released from, the Landsberg Prison for his role in the failed Beer Hall Putsch. One hundred years ago Greece and Albania declared to the world that they were a republic and Calvin Coolidge was one year into his term as U.S. President.
Amidst the happenings of the wider world a child arrived in a small county in Kentucky. Margie Kinslow was born on Sept. 10, 1924 near Furlong Road in the Beckton community, which was, as Kinslow said, named Furlong Road after her great great grandfather who helped clear trees to allow a road to be made to Bowling Green.
“It had loads of trees; you couldn’t get out to Bowling Green, you had to go through all these little communities,” Kinslow said. “My grandfather cut trees for a road to get to Bowling Green [so] Judge Gillenwater…named that road for him.”
Kinslow’s ancestors settled in Beckton after coming from Virginia and her great great grandfather was born on Christmas Eve in 1811. With her birth in 1924 five generations had lived in Barren County. Now, being the matriarch of her own expansive family, 10 generations of her family has lived in Barren County.
“Glasgow is a great place to live; Walter [her husband] alway said so,” Kinslow said.
To the younger generations, Kinslow emphasized the importance of knowledge and a love of history.
“You’re never too old to learn,” Kinslow said. “Nobody is perfect.”
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