Every historic building has a story to tell
In February 2019, I set off for beekeeping school with great zeal. Life intervened, in the form of a job loss and the addition of another baby, and we are still hive-less…well, not entirely. Last night, my toddler informed me that there was a bug in her room. After some investigation and the hum (read more)
Category: 1901 Farmhouse
Tags: bee hive, Bees, honey bees
Onion domes are not an architectural feature I glimpse very often in this country, let alone in small town Kentucky. When I first saw the circa 1896 Ross-Ratliff House on a chilly winter day in 2015, I was entranced by the shingled corner turret with ogee-curved dome on top. Today I got a message that (read more)
Categories: Demolition, Nicholas County
There will be a Juneteenth celebration tonight, June 19, 2020, in Lexington, Kentucky, at African Cemetery No. 2. Juneteenth traces its origins back to Galveston, Texas where on June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in the city with news that the Civil War had ended and enslaved persons were now free. The Emancipation Proclamation had (read more)
Although I grew up traveling frequently to Mercer County, Kentucky, to visit my grandparents and other family members, it wasn’t until I was a teenager that I first rode on US 68. My mother, a native of Harrodsburg, was in a wreck on the twisting, winding road when she was in high school, and (read more)
The Second Empire style, with its distinctive mansard roof, is not a common architectural style in the Bluegrass State. When I spot an example in my travels around Kentucky, I tend to remember. News of the demolition of an eye-catching Second Empire house in Richmond, Kentucky, reached me over a week ago – a house (read more)
Categories: Demolition, Madison County
Tags: demolition by neglect, Richmond Kentucky, Richmond Register, Scooby Doo House
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