Kentucky has many undisputed claims to fame such as being the home of The Kentucky Derby, the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, the site of the world’s largest cave, Tom Cruise probably went to high school here for a brief period and many others. Before we start giving each other high fives in celebration of our various points of Kentucky pride,
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There are plenty of reasons to love the Kentucky State Fair, let us count the ways. As you may already know, we are obsessed with the Vegetable Critters Competition, still stand in awe of the inexplicably chatty Freddy Farm Bureau, are forever delighted by the little yellow chicks on the metal water slide and marvel at the the sideshows and
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Our original title put us in danger of quoting both Ace of Base and Simon & Garfunkel before we even got out of the gate, so we decided to go with Garfunkel. Art Garfunkel once sang of a sign that read “the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls” in the spooky sixties song
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I remember from my childhood a giant Triceratops tucked under the cool shadows of the Interstate behind the Kentucky Science Center lurking in the parking lot along the Ohio River. Years later, I drove down to see it and it had vanished. Did it wash away in a flood? Did it come to life and walk over to Indiana or
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In 1990, a little-known band from Louisville, Kentucky curiously called Slint had just recorded their second album of songs running just under 40 minutes and needed an image for the cover. They knew of an abandoned quarry just across the bridge in Utica, Indiana so they grabbed their buddy who had a Pentax K1000 camera and arrived at the quarry
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Age dependent rites of passage are few and far between. At age 16 you can drive a car, when you turn 18 you can vote and when you turn 21 you can legally buy a beer. That’s all well and good but what’s next? Waiting to turn 65 so you can draw Social Security seems like an eternity at that
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I grabbed my “Travel Gumby*,” placed it on the dashboard for good luck and headed south for my journey to discover the peculiar places of Kentucky for the first time in my “official” capacity as Curious Kentucky. The local airwaves were filled with Hall & Oates and Journey which were totally acceptable for this relatively short trip down the Shepherdsville,
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The Five Burials of Floyd Collins – The Greatest Story Seldom Told In the year 2022, William Floyd Collins rests peacefully just outside the abandoned Mammoth Cave Baptist Church which is tucked deep in the woods of South Central Kentucky down a long windy road about ten minutes from the Mammoth Cave National Park Visitor’s Center. Better know simply as
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My excitement in realizing the Kentucky State Fair is next month was quickly tempered by the discovery that I have missed the deadline to enter the “Vegetable Critters” Competition by just three days. Once again, I will not be realizing one of my low-key life goals of putting googlie eyes on a misshaped potato and calling it President Nixon or
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Greetings fellow travelers and thank you for joining us as we explore the all things Curious in Kentucky. We have a lot of stories and peculiar places we can’t wait to share with you and we wanted to invite you to share any tales or points of interest you would like to see explored. Feel free to leave us a
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