J. Eric Thomason

February 21, 2023

This post serves as a confession. Yes . . . I spy on my neighbors! Before you get excited and envision me hiding in bushes looking through windows; it is nothing like that. Instead I simply like to know who lives in a certain house, how many acres are in their farm, or what (read more)

Category: Warren County

Tags: #bowlinggreenky, #kentuckyarchitecture, #oldhouses, #PVA, #warrencountyky

December 22, 2020

One of my enduring Christmas habits is listening to Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory” in a lamplit room alone with only my own memories. As Truman Capote recites in his high-pitched sing-song voice, with 2020 stripped to its barest essentials, and Christmas rapidly approaching, I cannot help but think of holiday traditions of years past (read more)

Categories: Guest Post, Kentucky architecture, Kentucky history, Warren County

Tag: Christmas

May 11, 2020

My grandmother, a lifelong Warren Countian who died in the same room in which she was born, often spoke of a great-uncle, ‘Tom-Doc.’ Call him what you will, Thomas Benton Greathouse was the family eccentric and/or black sheep. During my childhood, she would point out the location of his shack, on land later owned by (read more)

Categories: Allen County, Warren County

Tags: alms house, poor farm, Poorhouse

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J. Eric Thomason

The Hidden Treasures of the Warren County PVA Property Cards

A Voice from South Central Kentucky: Christmas Memories

Sent to the Poorhouse: The Allen and Warren County, Kentucky Poor Farms

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