The first official state flag was made in early 1920for a ceremony（典礼，仪式）at Camp Zachary Taylor，in Louisville．The flag had been hastily（急速地，慌忙地）put together，with little artistic design and was barely（几乎不能）passable as the flag of the Commonwealth．Following the ceremony，the flag was sent to Credo Harris for creative improvements．A committee was formed，and three designs were agreed upon．These three were then combined into one design，which was to be sent to the Governor for approval．The design was forgotten or lost during its bureaucratic（官僚政治的）shuffle（混乱，蒙混），and nothing ever resulted．After a long period of time，the 1920flag was finally returned to Frankfort，placed in the custody（保管）of the Kentucky Historical Society．
During the administration of Governor Flem D．Sampson，an official flag was needed for another military ceremony．Jouett Cannon，then secretary of the Kentucky Historical Society，commissioned Jessie Cox Burgess，an art teacher in the Frankfort city school system，to come up with a design．Burgess’design consisted of ink sketches of the state’s seal，embellished（修饰）with goldenrod branches，done in oil paints，encircling it．Three flags were then made in Philadelphia（费城（美国宾夕法尼亚州东南部港市））；only two of these found their way to Frankfort，one being lost during a Chicago ceremony needing a flag representing Kentucky．
It was not until 1961that the Kentucky Legislature officiated the design，colors，and specifications for the state’s flag．Major Taylor L．Davidson，while serving the Adjutant General［（美国各洲的）民兵指挥官］，speerheaded the project by researching the history and early designs of the state flag．Harold Collins，artist，was then asked to produce three color designs to be presented to Governor Bert Combs for a decision．Once the design was chosen，a template（（=templet）模板）was made，and then detailed specifications were transcribed（转录）by Major Davidson into a new bill．The bill，the first and only bill with illustrations（说明）included in to the Kentucky statute，was passed into law during the 1962session．
State Song州歌
My Old Kentucky Home
The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home
’Tis summer，the people are gay；
The corn top’s ripe and the meadow’s in the bloom（旺盛），
While the birds make music all the day；
The young folks roll on the little cabin（小屋）floor，
All merry，all happy，and bright，
By’n by hard times comes a－knocking at the door，
Then my old Kentucky home，good night！
CHORUS
Weep no more，my lady，
Oh weep no more today！
We will sing one song for the old Kentucky home，
For the old Kentucky home far away．
They hunt no more for the ’possum
（［动］负鼠）and the coon（［动］浣熊），
On meadow，the hill and the shore，
They sing no more by the glimmer（闪光）of the moon，
On the bench by that old cabin door；
The day goes by like a shadow o’er the heart，
With sorrow where all was delight；
The time has come when the people have to part，
Then my old Kentucky home，good night！
CHORUS
The head must bow and the back will have to bend，
Wherever the people may go；
A few more days and the trouble all will end
In the field where sugar－canes may grow；
A few more days for to tote（背负）the weary load，
No matter，’twill never be light，
A few more days till we totter on the road，
Then my old Kentucky home，good night！
CHORUS
Facts and Trivia相关资料
1．The town of Murray is home to the Boy Scouts of America Scouting Museum located on the campus of Murray State University．
2．The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continuously held horse race in the country．It is held at Churchill Downs in Louisville on the first Saturday in May．
3．The Bluegrass Country around Lexington is home to some of the world’s finest racehorses．
4．Kentucky was a popular hunting ground for the Shawnee and Cherokee Indian nations prior to being settled by white settlers．
5．In 1774Harrodstown（now Harrodsburg）was established as the first permanent settlement in the Kentucky region．It was named after James Harrod who led a team of area surveyors（测量员，检查员）．
6．The old official state tree was the Kentucky coffee tree（Gymnocladus dioicus．）The tulip tree（［植］郁金香属植物）（Liriodendron tulipifera）is the current official state tree．The change was made in 1976．
7．Cheeseburgers（夹干酪和碎牛肉的三明治）were first served in 1934at Kaolin’s restaurant in Louisville．
8．Chevrolet Corvettes are manufactured in Bowling Green．
9．Mammoth Cave is the world’s longest cave and was first promoted in 1816，****** it the second oldest tourist attraction in the United States．Niagara Falls，New York is first．
10．Begun in 1819the first commercial oil well was on the Cumberland River in McCreary County．
11．The first Miss America from Kentucky is Heather Renee French．She was crowned on September 18，1999．
12．The first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant owned and operated by Colonel Sanders is located in Corbin．
13．Kentucky is the state where both Abraham Lincoln，President of the Union，and Jefferson Davis，President of the Confederacy，were born．They were born less than one hundred miles and one year apart．
