Kentucky Articles

Update: February 14, 2026 While revisiting the archives of this site, I found myself drawn back to a piece I first shared in 2020. It was a landmark 1988 docudrama titled God’s Frontiersmen, which traced…

https://youtu.be/9j3KF0G8Tis Hensley Settlement is an Appalachian living history museum on Brush Mountain, Bell County, Kentucky in the United States. The settlement is part of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and it is located approximately…

Way back when I started this journey, my mountain dream was to retire to the mountains and spend my days wandering the backroads and using my cameras to capture the beauty I found. Over the…

Travel guide features must see attractions, debuts video series FRANKFORT, Ky. (Jan. 10, 2023) – The Kentucky Department of Tourism released the 2023 Official Kentucky Visitor’s Guide, Team Kentucky’s official visitor’s guide for travel in…

“Food and drink! Music and artworks! Seasonal celebrations galore! Pick your favorite festival theme and start planning.” Blue Ridge Country Blue Ridge Country Festival Guide – May & June I was spending some time on…

It’s a bit of history, a bit geography, and a bit natural history. This video about the Eastern White Pine… https://youtu.be/bQs7novlvtA The Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus) is often called the “monarch of the North,”…

https://youtu.be/3IFeOmLpP3E Recorded in the mountains of Kentucky. This Bull Elk was a brute! He wasn’t afraid and watched us as much as we watched him. He was the king there. 🙂 The Rocky Mountain Elk…

https://youtu.be/aBLA7xnsp_o Black Mountain was produced by Appalshop’s Community Media Initiative in 1998 in response to a group of Harlan Co. Kentucky residents who were organizing against a mountaintop removal permit for the tallest mountain in…

A nice Mountains of Kentucky image I found: Sun Bathing Image by Universal Pops (mostly inactive)Thank you for taking time to view this photo; and thanks to those of you leaving a comment. The mist…

When speaking of the greatness of Kentucky writing I often hear people say, “must be something in the water!” I don’t think so. I think it’s in great part due to the mountains that rise…

It is January 26th. The holidays are in the rearview mirror, the sky is a steel grey, and the mountains are sleeping under a frost. It feels like winter has settled in for the long…

https://youtu.be/jxjrgDHEgvg This is an early traditional fiddle tune from Kentucky named for a gap in the Cumberland Mountains, played here on clawhammer banjo and rhythm guitar. https://youtu.be/grgbOVThuWk This is the old time version of Cumberland…

Mary Breckinridge rode through the mountains in the summer of 1928, visiting lonely cabins and riding up steep mountain canyons. She gave nursing care to men, women, and especially children. Word spread that she was…

South from Hell-fer-Sartin, a short creek flowing into the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River, lies one of the of the most isolated regions in Kentucky. There, on the north slope of the Pine Mountain…

About this ItemTitleMountain woman by her home up Stinking Creek, Pine Mountain, KentuckyContributor NamesWolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographerCreated / Published1940 Aug.Subject Headings United States–Kentucky–Knox County–Stinking CreekHeadingsNitrate negatives.GenreNitrate negativesNotesTitle and other information from caption card.Transfer; United…