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....
Category: West Kentucky
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...
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...
Christian County – Edgar Cayce
It is 2 a.m. and you are cramming for a biology test that starts in seven hours. You’ve known about the exam for weeks but, hey, that football game at the corner hangout wasn’t...
Hopkinsville – Black Patch Tobacco War
My grandparents were Kentucky farmers. They raised Black Angus cattle, hogs, and grew burley tobacco, just like thousands of others across the Commonwealth. You’ll still find burley growing in most regions statewide year after...
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...
Elizabethtown – Swope’s Cars of Yesteryear
Let’s talk about cars … I’m just going to come out and say it: the Pontiac Trans Am was absolutely the coolest car of the 1980s, especially if you were a teenager. It was...
