Elizabethtown – Cannonballs and Lincolns
Civil War cannonballs turn up in the darndest places. People have found them lodged in bedroom doors (see the blog on Perryville), washed up on beaches, and have even uncovered them while digging...
by Rebecca Hanchett · Published September 12, 2020 · Last modified April 6, 2021
Civil War cannonballs turn up in the darndest places. People have found them lodged in bedroom doors (see the blog on Perryville), washed up on beaches, and have even uncovered them while digging...
Someone told me once that my dad was born on a kitchen table. I’ve always thought that was a joke since Dad, like me, shined at disassembling a decent meal. My grandmother made it...
Along the Chaplin River Ducks rested on exposed rock along the bed of the Chaplin River as my friends, the Kaelins, and I surveyed the water from a pedestrian bridge. Like us, the birds...
Hi. I’m Rebecca Hanchett, and I’m a Kentuckian. Most of my life has been spent in Lexington, Ky., although I bounced around a few central and southern Kentucky counties as a small-town journalist in my 20s.
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