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...
Tagged: Kentucky
Carrollton – General Butler State Resort Park
Any good Kentucky politician knows you never turn down an invite to a barbecue. Speaking on the stump next to a smoking pit is a hardened tradition in the Commonwealth. If you are running...
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...
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...
Daniel Boone National Forest & Cumberland Falls
Saturdays at my house are reserved for TV westerns. I start early with Have Gun, Will Travel, then run through Maverick, Wagon Train, and Gunsmoke (pre-Festus, please) before ending the sofa-bound adventure on the...
Perryville
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...
Old Washington
The red-brown brick façade of Washington Hall was warm to the touch when I stopped by on a recent walking tour of this historic district in Maysville. It had spent the morning facing east...
Welcome to un-Tucked
What do you think of when you hear the word Kentucky? There’s no right or wrong answer — just whatever comes to mind. Did you imagine what you expected you would? Or did you...
