TDN Weekend December 2016 Issue 9
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stitched it back together, let's consider how the narrative had become frayed. Again, take Mill Ridge as a sample. Alice Headley had grown up on Beaumont Farm, stretch- ing 4,000 acres west from the Mason-Head- ley Road—which nowadays unites two principal arteries of downtown Lexington. One, Harrodsburg Road, was subject of an instructive wager between Alice's parents. "Her mother bet her father that there would never be a stop light on Harrodsburg," Price smiles. "It's now four lanes running all the way down to the river." Because Alice was keenest among her siblings to continue raising horses, the 250 acres she inherited from their father com- prised the parcel farthest from the city. (The four mares she also inherited, inciden- tally, included Attica herself, the dam of Sir Ivor.) Her childhood home is now the cen- trepiece of Sullivan University, surrounded by malls and developments. The question, throughout, has always been a very literal one: where do you draw the line? Price feels you can't begin to answer that question without some depth of perspec- tive on Lexington, right to its very origins. The year of its foundation is not hard to guess—the settlers were inspired by their compatriots' victory in the first battle of the revolutionary war in 1775—and nor were their grounds for coming here, in the