Before she became a celebrated Louisville Times columnist, educating and entertaining readers on the city’s history with her weekly editorial page entitled “Old Louisville,” Melville Otter was a young girl growing up in the neighborhood we now refer to as “Old Louisville.” Melville and her parents, John D. Otter and Melvilla Carter Otter, lived on St. James Court, the neighborhood of choice for city’s literary and political elite. Melville’s memory books, dating from 1912 through 1916, document her teenage years as the only child of a prominent, well-to-do family in the early twentieth century. Using the multiple manuscript and photograph collections on Melville Otter Briney and her family, Cole will delve into Melville’s accounts of life on St. James Court in the 1910s, as well as touch upon her family background, her education and her career as a journalist and author.