By KEITH LAWRENCE - Messenger-Inquirer
ROSINE, Ky. -- When William Smith Monroe was born on Sept. 13, 1911, few people other than the neighbors of James Buchanan "Buck" and Malissa Vandiver Monroe were aware of it.
After all, the baby, named for two of his uncles, was the eighth child born into the farm family on Ohio County's Jerusalem Ridge.
It was hardly news that Malissa Monroe was having another baby.
But the 100th anniversary of the birth of the man known as the "father of bluegrass music" will be a major event in Rosine, his hometown, and Owensboro, where an emergency appendectomy in 1921 saved Monroe's life.
"I think it's going to be very big for us," Karen Miller, executive director of the Owensboro-Daviess County Convention & Visitors Bureau, said recently. Full story here
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