December, 2019

Posts from December, 2019: 3

December 10, 2019

The term “ambulance chaser” had a focused and singular meaning when I was a little girl. If one of the county’s emergency vehicles or fire truck made their way past our driveway, the sound floating up the hill to us, then my father went out to the truck to follow. Sound travels far in the (read more)

Category: Uncategorized

December 6, 2019

One of the best parts of my Gardens to Gables endeavor is the freedom to research and write about whatever I wish. Sometimes though, I am left with only my imagination to fill in the multitude of unknowns about a historic place or building. This late-19th (or turn-of-the-century) house I spied from the road last (read more)

Category: Fulton County

Tag: Fulton County

December 4, 2019

The porch may be my favorite feature on a historic house. I fell in love with the porch on our 1901 farmhouse long before I committed myself to the rest of the structure. At 11 feet deep and 32 feet long, there is plenty of space about which to be passionate. Alas, my ardor does (read more)

Categories: Historic Preservation, Kentucky architecture

Tags: Farmhouse, porch light

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December, 2019

Sound Travels in the Country

A Porch Fit for Dreaming in Fulton County, Kentucky

Porch Matters: Let there be Light!

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