Best locally organized sports play-by-play 2020-10-16 - Taylor County, KY - Photo from family collection. Matt Payton, broadcast operations coordinator and voice of Tiger Basketball at Campbellsville University, has been named Broadcasting's Best Sports Play-By-Play by the Kentucky Broadcasters Association (KBA), the largest broadcasting organization in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The award recognizes the best locally organized sports play-by-play in the Commonwealth. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Piecemaker's Quilt Guild working for Veterans 2020-10-16 - Metcalfe County, KY - Photo from Gaye Shaw, Edmonton Metcalfe County Chamber of Commerce. Nominations are open for Metcalfe County Veterans in the Piecemaker’s Quilt Guild partnership with the Metcalfe County, American Legion and VFW Posts honors. As a symbol and token of thanks, solace, and remembrance for those who have served in harm’s way, we would like to present handmade quilts to several service members. Last year we presented quilts to seven veterans and plan to do a similar number this year. Nomination information is in the story linked to this photo. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Cattails in a marshy ditch 2020-10-16 - Russell County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Cattails emerge every year, seems like for infinity. They look sleek like this brown velvet one until time for them to turn into puff balls. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Happy 97th Birthday! 2020-10-16 - Columbia, KY - Photo from the family. Bro. Raymond Martin is in the spotlight today - son J.J. says, "Happy 97th Birthday to our favorite Veteran - Your family loves you!" Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Cooking down the molasses 2020-10-16 - Green County, KY - Photo by Phillip Coffey. Dennis Whitlock, at left, and his son Adam Whitlock are pictured "cooking down" the molasses on a recent hot October day. Phillip Coffey's poem was inspired here, "...The smell of the brewing has cut off my stewing..." as he helped out. The juices that arrive from the mill, thanks to gravity, go into the vat on the right. The sugar cane juice flows through various cooking trays, getting skimmed as each is heated. Each step is cooked on down and thickened. When it gets to the last vat, beside the chimney at left, Dennis decides when the molasses are perfected and ready to pull the lever that will release them to the flow of the golden, thickened liquid into its bucket. Dennis said he learned this craft from his wife Stella Matney's father. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

The Sugar Shack at the Whitlock's place 2020-10-16 - Green County, KY - Photo by Phillip Coffey. The sign on top reads "Sugar Shack" on the Whitlock farm in Green County, KY and it is where a batch of molasses was being made recently. Helping but not pictured were Stella Whitlock and Mrs. Aaron Whitlock. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Molasses making starts with the sugar cane stalks 2020-10-16 - Green County, KY - Photo by Phillip Coffey. Making molasses in this region begins in the cane fields, bringing in a wagon load of the stalks for pressing out the sugary juices. Aaron Whitlock, at left, and his sons, Atticus and Lucas, work with Rev. Dennis Penick at the mill squeezing out the juices. The juice gravity flows to the Sugar Shack for the next step. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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