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...
by Rebecca Hanchett · Published October 16, 2022 · Last modified October 22, 2022
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...
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...
by Rebecca Hanchett · Published February 11, 2022 · Last modified February 18, 2022
“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...
by Rebecca Hanchett · Published October 19, 2021 · Last modified October 29, 2021
“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,...
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...
It’s a dark and cold October night in Mt. Sterling as the flash of cell phone cameras follow the green dot of a laser pointer along a downtown sidewalk. Those of us snapping photos...
by Rebecca Hanchett · Published September 19, 2020 · Last modified April 6, 2021
It looks like any other family farm at first glance: a narrow gravel lane, fields of tall grass, a weathered barn, a farmhouse. But look closely. Soon you’ll see the sculpture. It’s all around...
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.
un-Tucked was born in the summer of 2020 after I retired from a 23-year career as a publicist for Kentucky state lawmakers. I wanted to continue writing about my state but in my own unique voice, outside the bounds of political news and speechwriting.
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Rebecca