Arts & Culture
Wrap up your summer with these suggested books
“Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life … and Maybe the World” by...
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Melanie Sunbeam Smith: A legacy of passion-driven participation in the art world
By Mattie Dunn As an art form, collage is often described as “organized chaos,” and in most cases...
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Segregated bus service ends in 1966
The enactment of laws to segregation of African Americans from Caucasians is generally refereed to...
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Three chirps for bourbon
You wouldn’t think that bourbon and birds go hand-in-hand, but for Sandi Sanders, it does. In one...
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“The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America” by Jack Kelly Over the last year or so, many of us have heard a lot about living in a second “Gilded Age” fraught...
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JSP Art in Nature Camps offers ‘mindful artmaking’
If you’re looking for an inspirational, creative outlet for your children this summer, or for...
Read MoreWatch out for the brain freeze this summer with ‘The Ice Cream Machine’
“The Ice Cream Machine” by Adam Rubin My favorite summer treat as a young girl was piling in the car with all my cousins and driving to their favorite ice cream kiosk to order whatever was the exotic flavor of the...
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Owen County boy catches the train
From 1836 to 1971, all types of men and women arrived and left Frankfort from the railroad...
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An unscheduled meet at Long Run, Kentucky
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (C&O), from the time it started to run between Lexington,...
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“The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo” by Ian Stansel Ian Stansel’s debut novel, “The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo,” literally starts with a bang. Frank Van Loy lies dead in the dirt, shot through the heart....
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