The American Chestnut, or Castanea dentata , once ruled the Appalachians with a range extending from Maine to Mississippi. They were extreme...

McCreary County's Mine 18 was operated by the Stearns Coal and Lumber Company from 1937 to 1962, in the now-defunct town of Blue Heron....

There's been quite a flap going on in the British media about a migration that the BBC is undergoing - I haven't sorted out all the ...

Today is Thomas Edison's 164th birthday. I just saw him the other day and he doesn't look a day over 125. As happens every year, the...

Asbury College, located just south of Lexington in Wilmore, KY, was founded in 1890 as Kentucky Holiness College. Its founder, the Methodist...

Do I have my finger on the pulse of the timespace continuum or what? Just days after waggishly dissecting Kentucky's ludicrous anti-nudi...

It's not often you encounter a saloon with such old-school cool as Air Devils Inn. Even now in the 21st century, they are a strictly cas...

Jackson County's very own J.T. Dockery will unveil his new Spud Crazy graphic novel (based on a story by Nick Tosches ) tonight at Lex...

You may have seen Harlan County Haunts and More Harlan County Haunts by local writer Darla Jackson in stores. And if you haven't, ask...

Whilst wading through the manure that is Kentucky's Revised Statutes yesterday in assembling my post on Kentucky's Nudist Society Ac...

Here's a real blast from the past. A Time magazine article dated July 15, 1966 - when Hector was just a pup - about how Kentucky's...

One from my writing blog : In my latest installment of Commonwealth Curiosities , I'm layin' down the lowdown on "sleeping prop...