Published by the University Press of Kentucky in August 2011, Crawfish Bottom: Reconstructing a Lost Kentucky Community is about a small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky. Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. “Craw’s” early reputation for vice, violence, and perceived moral corruption made it a common target for critics, beginning in the 1870s, until urban renewal replaced the neighborhood with the city’s Capital Plaza in the mid-1960s. Douglas A. Boyd’s Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community traces the evolution of a close-knit community that ultimately saw four-hundred families displaced. Using oral histories and firsthand memories, Boyd not only provides a record of a vanished neighborhood and its culture but also demonstrates how this type of study enhances the historical record. In Crawfish Bottom, the former residents of Craw acknowledge the popular misconceptions about their community but offer a richer and more balanced view of the past.