Recently I have been trying to travel around Kentucky and learn more about my home state. I am making a podcast to track my journey. The primary focus is on the state parks. I will visit other places as they come up.
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1/21/22
We visit Louisville’s only state park. We see a funky bridge and continue to collect gazebos. It is a typesite of a recreational park.
Tags
Louisville Recreation Pool
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2 Jul 2024
Big Bone Lick
Date 12/31/21
This was amazing. I’m a huge fan of extinct animals. If you don’t like pioneers or the civil war, this might be the only historical park you’ll enjoy. The Museum is great.
Sources:
Kentucky Encyclopedia
New History of Kentucky
Tags
Mammoths Cincinnati Buffalo History Nature
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25 Jun 2024
Taylorsville Lake
Date: 11/13/21
Here we go to Taylorsville Lake. I think lakes are going to start to get boring, if anyone has any suggestions of how to keep them interesting, just email me.
Sources:
Kentucky Encyclopedia
Tags
Lake Horse Autumn Louisville Mud
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18 Jun 2024
Lake Malone
This is where I camped for a couple of nights. I can’t get over just how nice this park is. It’s not amazing, it won’t blow your socks off, but it’s really nice.
Sources
Kentucky Encyclopedia
Visited on 10/9/21
Tags Big twigs, Lake, camping, sculpture, easy hike
4 Jun 2024
Jefferson Davis Memorial
This was a hard one. I tried to acknowledge the impact this man had on history, but I didn’t want to seem to glorify him. I wouldn’t be worried about seeming to glorify him if there weren’t people out there actually glorifying him. Anyway, I talk about this all I want to in the episode.
Sources
Jefferson Davis Gets his citizenship back
Coleridge’s poetry and prose Norton critical edition
In our time Herodotus
Memoirs of U S Grant
Kentucky Encyclopedia
New History of Kentucky
J J McCoulough and Mr Beat interview each other.
Robert Penn Warren Birthplace and Museum
Yale Courses African American history since 1865
Visited on 10/8/21
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23 May 2023
Central City/Muhlenberg County
When you see something that looks interesting pull over and see it. I almost didn’t go here, because I wasn’t that interested in The Everly Brothers, but there is so much more here.
Date: 10/7/21
Sources
HK
Dark Rendezvous
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9 May 2023
Dawson Springs
Dawson Springs was hit very hard by a tornado recently. I haven’t really looked into what has survived the devastation. I kind of don’t want to know. I am most worried about the baseball field. I’m glad to have visited when I did. I think it is a great town to visit.
Date: 10/7/21
Sources
HK
https://www.kentuckytourism.com/dawson-springs/attractions/sports-attractions/historic-riverside-park (https://www.kentuckytourism.com/dawson-springs/attractions/sports-attractions/historic-riverside-park)
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wagneho01.shtml (https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wagneho01.shtml)
TikTok @Blue.grey6
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25 Apr 2023
Pennyrile Forest
We’re visiting the Pennyrile forest and trying to avoid some bugs. This is the first time we visit a state park lodge. They are wonderful if you ever get the chance to visit.
Date: 10/7/21
Sources
HK
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11 Apr 2023
Wickliffe
One of the two very different towns I visited in the far West of Kentucky.
Date: 5/16/21
Sources
KE
HK
https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-illinois-county-is-losing-people-faster-than-anywhere-in-the-u-s-11629883801 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-illinois-county-is-losing-people-faster-than-anywhere-in-the-u-s-11629883801)
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28 Mar 2023
Columbus-Belmont
A Civil War battlefield with additional history as a refugee camp later in the war. It also has an amazing view of the Mississippi River.
Date: 5/16/21
Sources
HK
KE
Memoirs of US Grant
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14 Mar 2023
Columbus
The smaller of two cities in the far West of Kentucky.
Date: 5/15/21
Sources
HK
KE
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28 Feb 2023
Wickliffe Mounds
One of the few Native American sites in Kentucky. When it comes to history the further back you go the more interesting.
Date: 5/15/21
Sources
HK
KE
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nagpra/index.htm (https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nagpra/index.htm)
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14 Feb 2023
Cumberland Gap
Date: 4/11/21
Right after I go to the first state park (sort of) I go to the first national Park (Sort of). It is also the first one I really want to go back to.
Sources
HK
KE
Memoirs U S Grant
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31 Jan 2023
Kingdom Come
Description:
Date: 4/10/21
I visited this state park first because I had heard a lot of good things about it and the name was compelling. It was quite beautiful.
Sources
Little Shepard of Kingdom Come
KY Encyclopedia
https://www.wymt.com/2020/07/12/kingdom-come-state-park-brings-rally-car-racing-to-eastern-kentucky-in-hopes-of-promoting-the-region/ (https://www.wymt.com/2020/07/12/kingdom-come-state-park-brings-rally-car-racing-to-eastern-kentucky-in-hopes-of-promoting-the-region/)
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25 Jan 2023
Introduction
This is the first episode of the Podcast. I talk a bit about myself and I talk about the Isaac Shelby State Park, which I visited around 2/12/21.
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