Category: Kentucky
Photographing Appalachia (West Liberty, KY) | Kentucky Life | KET
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 years that dream has faded… It’s nice to stumble upon someone who managed to pull it off. Appalachia is renowned for its beautiful scenery and
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New 2023 Official Kentucky Visitor’s Guide Now Available
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 the commonwealth. The 2023 Official Kentucky Visitor’s Guide serves as the state’s primary tourism advertising and promotional piece with nearly 350,000 copies distributed worldwide. Beauty
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2023 Festival & Event Guide
“Food and drink! Music and artworks! Seasonal celebrations galore! Pick your favorite festival theme and start planning.” Blue Ridge Country I was spending some time on Facebook today and saw a post about NC Mineral and Gem Festival. The post had a copy of the cover of the Blue Ridge Country Magazine 2023 Festival & Event Guide. For over a
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Eastern White Pine
It’s a bit of history, a bit geography, and a bit natural history. This video about the Eastern White Pine… Pinus strobus, commonly denominated the eastern white pine, northern white pine, white pine, Weymouth pine (British), and soft pine[2] is a large pine native to eastern North America. It occurs from Newfoundland, Canada west through the Great Lakes region to southeastern Manitoba and Minnesota, United States, and south along the Appalachian Mountains and upper Piedmont to northernmost Georgia and perhaps very rarely
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The Appalachians: The Scotch-Irish / Scots-Irish
I stumbled across this video the other day… While the quality is a little blurry, the information is right on…
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THE ELK
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 that roam the hardwood forests of eastern Kentucky were established by a six-year restoration program. Eastern elk were native to Kentucky but were eradicated by the
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Black Mountain Story Part 1
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 the state. The video was screened across the state in homes, churches, and college campuses. Produced by Greg Howard, Tom Hansell, and Nick Szuberla. For more
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Cool Mountains Of Kentucky image|Great Mountains Of Kentucky shot]
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 rising like smoke from the mountains of Kentucky–the photo was taken in Letcher County, Kentucky, just over the Virginia line in Pound Gap. This work
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Nikky Finney About Mountains
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 and stretch out all around our homes and farms. Our greatness as writers has to do with the land. Our connection to it. A wonderful
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