Miss Talley remained among the leaders as the first West Kentucky College Golf Showcase closed (and a Heath girl stakes claim to the graduated Caldwell Countian's prep dominance).
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Oh, Kentucky
Good jobs news from Bardstown, Lexington and west Louisville. Bad from Madisonville.
Broadband rollout in Lyon County progresses.
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As to whether Miss Talley is the greatest Caldwell County athlete of all time, she faces stiff competition in my judgment from (at least) Jim Pickens Sr., an All-OVC quarterback, fast-rising pitcher in the Detroit Tigers' organization before a shoulder injury, Kentucky-prep-champion football and baseball coach and OVC-champ baseball coach (among other accomplishments).
ReplyDeleteAlso in the conversation--probably more prominently had he lived longer--would be Dwight Smith.
ReplyDeleteI think Dwight Smith should definitely be on the list. In fact, I think right now he would be ranked ahead of Miss Emma Talley. What a tragic, tragic story.
ReplyDeleteAnother would be Greg Smith (Dwight's brother), who started at power forward and averaged better than seven points and 11 rebounds a game for the NBA-champion 1971 Milwaukee Bucks.
ReplyDeleteFor the record, I don't think UK would have rather played Michigan than Western in 1966. I agree that Western was cheated, but I don't think UK had anything to do with it.
ReplyDeleteEric, have you made that drive from Nortonville to Bowling Green?
ReplyDeleteYou know, I cowrote a lengthy article about the Smith family when I was at WKU, and shame on me that I never knew the route they had taken. The story had to do a lot with the Smiths' upbringing, their time at WKU and then the aftermath of the wreck with regard to the rest of the family and the Smith's friends. But we didn't dive much into the facts of the wreck itself, and that's a shame--because, though tragic, it's definitely an interesting and meaningful story that played out for years after.
DeleteSo those stories indicate that it happened less than a mile south of Nortonville on U.S. 41. Given that the Smiths likely would've been accustomed to driving through Hoptown en route between Princeton and Bowling Green, my guess is that their plan was to head straight south to Hoptown and then cut east toward Bowling Green on familiar-to-them U.S. 68/Ky. 80. The Pennyrile Parkway didn't open until more than two years later, and so they would've likely intended to drive U.S. 41 the whole way down to Hoptown.
I think you're right. I looked it all up on the maps this morning, and it immediately occurred to me that the accident probably would not have happened if the Pennyrile Parkway had been open.
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