Oh, Kentucky

“That’s when I figured out that if we were going to solve this problem of broadband access, it’s going to have to be a community solution.”

"The bipartisan passage of these important agreements is a meaningful step forward to creating a stronger domestic economy while also opening additional gateways for Kentucky exports to the world."

"I’m not leaning either way right now. I am leaving it in God’s hands to tell me what to do when I get up in there to vote."

Turning it around at Louisville Western High.

Movin' on up in Harlan County: Retracing Sherman Hensley's (horses') historic footsteps (hoofsteps).

The seventh Rivers' Edge International Film Festival is Nov. 3-6 in Paducah. Raftbag is the feature that I find most compelling: "Franklin and Pierce spend yet another typical atypical weekend in the small town of Paducah, Kentucky. Renting out costumes and working at a coffee shop to get by, they drift through bizarre normalities and uncanny coincidences, until Lucy moves to the town for the Summer."

Meanwhile, in Greenup on Nov. 5: Hourra pour les parcs d'état du Kentucky!

Paducah at 11 a.m. Central and Louisville at 2 p.m. Eastern ... the Kentucky Historical Society has issued Marker groupies quite a Saturday challenge.

Kentucky's "Miss Golf" is not Miss Talley.

Mad props to Mrs. Dowdy.

Rest in peace, Mr. Pennington, Woodbine livestock farmer and builder of the Corbin Public Library and "many of the Gulf and Chevron stations constructed throughout Southeast Kentucky in the late 60s and early 70s."

And Dr. Harrison, who literally wrote the book on WKU and didn't drive. When he needed to get from Bowling Green to get to Frankfort, Lexington, Louisville or wherever to do research, his wife would drive him downtown to the Greyhound station, and off he went.