In Old Kentucky

The state of Kentucky dedicated a shrine to Stephen C. Foster, composer of My Old Kentucky Home and other songs typically American. This dedication has a flavor of sentiment about it; the shrine is the old Rowan homestead of Bardstown, Kentucky, where Foster was a visitor during his honeymon in 1852, during which nuptial period he wrote My Old Kentucky Home.

It is to be noted in passing that Foster, in the popular eye merely a writer of popular tunes, is regarded as an important and extremely gifted musician by the eminent in present-day musical art.