| November 22, 2002 |
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Unusual Sights of Kentucky
You're  invited to follow these "self-appointed chroniclers of strange, forgotten, and interesting" on an eye-opening tour of the bastion of bluegrass that is Kentucky. Known mostly for its famed Derby and Colonel Sanders, Kentucky boasts a number of sights unseen that are captured here by these devoted Dixieland photogs. In Pisgah sits a grand castle built in the name of lost love, not too far from the country farm of everyone's favorite interplanetary captain, William Shatner. The historically rich South offers unexpected surprises, like the alleged site of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Native-American burial mounds, and a slew of haunted domiciles. The fake Boonesboro Beach, built along the equally fake Fort Boonesboro, is a sad testament to hokey tourist traps gone awry. Through a series of abandoned homesteads, Revolutionary War-era cemeteries, lonely roads, local mysteries, and other "weird stuff," you'll get a sense of the sometimes poor, often humble, yet fiercely proud and fascinating folks of rural Kentucky. (in Recreation & Sports) |
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