We have lots of new content this week: some history, events, commentaries, photography, art, a music review, and more! |
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Wes Moody got this amazing shot from atop Pilot Knob State Nature Preserve, just over the county line in Powell County. (Click the image to view it larger on our website.) |
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Spring has (almost) sprung! - Adra Fisher
A few weeks ago, the daffodil bulbs along my back fence line pushed their oval fingertips through the soil, an always-thrilling sight even after 30-plus years of gardening. The temperatures were frigid and the soil surface brittle, but these...
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Lynchings, ancient and modern - WinCity News & Views
Our own Harry Enoch and guest contributor Terry Foody provided research for this piece documenting a dark chapter in Clark County's past. It goes by different names. Vigilante justice. Racial terrorism. Lynching. Someone would be accused of a crime..
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Recommended books on RFK and Eastern KY - Randy Patrick
Robert Kennedy's two-day "poverty tour" of Appalachian Kentucky in February 1968 doesn't get a mention in most of his biographies. They almost invariably reference his 1967 visit to the Mississippi Delta, where he saw malnourished children living ...
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'Into the Woods' now playing at Leeds - Pete Koutoulas
“Into the Woods Jr.” opened last night at Leeds Center for the Arts and will continue with shows this weekend and next...
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Tips for the Yips - Erin Skinner Smith
My sixteen-year-old daughter recently played the national anthem on her electric guitar at the high school boy's basketball game. Halfway through her performance, her amp accidentally got unplugged (a janky extension cord set-up) and her...
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Playing for Change - Pete Koutoulas
In that one Zen-like moment, something in my brain expands to include all of this - the people, the places, the cultures - that make up the beautiful diversity of human experience. And we all have this superpower - it's been hardwired into us by...
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Community (A poem) - Bernard Fraley
Turn to every sound -falling rocks, washing shores,voices of the world beckoning. And if the sun should blind you, hear bird songs that stars still look upon. Bless the focus of ears, eyes raised to antler and ant, bush and seed...
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Jeff's Playlist - Jeff Brandt
This is the first Grateful Dead music I ever heard and I didn't know what to think. It was January 1974, I was a senior in high school, and I was very impressionable as far as music was concerned. I listened and listened, fell in love with it,...
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Beijing Acupuncture: chapter 1 - Chuck Witt
Michael Tate's next new adventure begins! "It was raining that day as I walked down the driveway to the mailbox. The forecasters had predicted that rain would continue off and on for another twenty-four hours and it had already..."
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Looking back: a flood anniversary - Nancy Gift
On February 26, 2021, I looked at the weather on my phone, as I often do, and saw rain in the forecast. After seeing the upcoming rain, I then checked the National Weather Service river forecasting service website, and I noticed with a start that ...
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