Shelbyville – Gallrein Farms
Gallrein Farms outside of Shelbyville looks like any other family farm from the main road. A small white board that reads Pumpkins hangs under the farm logo sign off the roadside. Three hay bales...
Author: Rebecca Hanchett
Liberty – The Casey County Apple Festival
The pie was almost ready to bake when we strolled into downtown Liberty. Lydia Coffey was cutting the last of the lattice to cover the apples, all nicely coated in cinnamon, sugar, and margarine....
Somerset – International Paranormal Museum
Outer space has a lot of names. Some call it the universe. The original writers of Star Trek called it “the final frontier.” Many believe nothing exists outside of it, and nothing else like...
Stanton – Red River Gorge
Something wild is happening at Red River Gorge. Tiny wildflowers are poking out of the ground all of a sudden. Green is making its way back into the trees. And the hikers! Hikers by the...
Louisville – Roots 101 African American Museum
“If I do forget, if I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, “may my right hand forget her cunning, and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my...
Clermont – Bernheim Forest
Little Nis is a troll made of wood that spends its days peering into a pond at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in Clermont. Unpainted angular planks from the troll’s head to its toes...
Millersburg — Christmas at Mustard Seed Hill
Military cadets have long disappeared from the grounds of the former Millersburg Military Institute on Main Street in this Bourbon County town. But the pomp and circumstance once seen here still lives — this...
Lexington – Waveland State Historic Site
“Arsenic and Old Lace” is a black comedy about two murdering aunts and their arsenic-laced wine that’s been performed and shown the world over. It might be the one tale that made arsenic poisoning,...
Bowling Green – Lost River Cave
It’s always 57 degrees inside the cavern at Lost River Cave. Winter, spring, summer, or fall, the temperature never changes. Not that the seven-mile-long cave and surrounding valley hasn’t experienced change. There has been...
Frankfort – Cove Spring Park
Black cherry, boxelder, and sycamore call Cove Spring Park home. So do Ohio buckeye, sugar maple, cottonwood, and a forest of other beauties rooted in this central Kentucky public park and nature preserve. Hikers...