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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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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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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Welcome Fellow Travelers to Curious Kentucky, an offbeat travel & storytelling site focusing on all things Curious about Kentucky! Featuring lesser-known local lore, peculiar places and general Kentucky fascination. We’ve got a lot of strange stories to unfold as well as some special spots to check out in The Bluegrass State. We’ve had a lifetime of learning about at the
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