The Bike Doctors
Members of Trikes for Tikes volunteer their time to give new life to old bicycles and tricycles.
View ArticlePractical Idealists
In the early 20th century, Katherine Pettit and May Stone began educational and community assistance programs in eastern Kentucky that have had a lasting impact.
View ArticleOh, the Places You'll Learn
Kentucky college students study abroad and become citizens of the world.
View ArticleWhere The Readers Are
The Children’s Reading Foundation of Appalachia helps Kentucky families give their preschoolers a literacy leg up.
View ArticleNourishing Those In Need
God’s Pantry Food Bank celebrates 60 years of providing assistance to Kentuckians
View ArticlePractical Idealists
In the early 20th century, Katherine Pettit and May Stone began educational and community assistance programs in eastern Kentucky that have had a lasting impact.
View ArticleStitching Together History
Were quilts with coded symbols used to guide slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad?
View ArticleThe Couple Who Writes Together
Authors Liz Curtis Higgs and Bill Higgs meld their differing personalities into a Christian version of yin and yang
View ArticleIn Medias Res
I wrote the introduction to this blog several years ago. I had been freelancing with Kentucky Monthly for over a year and they just kept letting me write about the cool and interesting Kentucky people...
View ArticleBullfrog, Speak!
Right along dusk not too long ago, we walked to the pond on the farm where I grew up. Sadie, at 4 years old, wore her galoshes and galloped ahead of us down the gravel drive...
View ArticleMountains and Molehills—Shovel, Please
One Tuesday last year, between Christmas and Jan. 1, I called my health insurance company to check on a claim status. Wendy took my call, answered my questions and suggested a solution.
View ArticleThe Summer Smell
Tomato is the smell of my red (and my hands). From the vine on the breath of the coon who stole them from my patch of ground.
View ArticleJust Keep Swinging
Life — like baseball and calving season — takes time, and there is something to be said about waiting and working and giving.
View ArticleGoing North – A Creative Memory Because October Seems to Do That
My family sometimes calls him The Colonel, partly because of the Army, and partly because, back then, men were harder on their boys. With five to raise, I imagine orderliness was paramount. But he...
View ArticleThe Food of Gratitude
Teresa’s Restaurant in Bowling Green puts the “giving” in Thanksgiving
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