On a clear Spring day in 1876, chunks of meat fell from the sky over a small Kentucky town. It lives in infamy as the Kentucky Meat Shower. Here's what really happened. Spoiler alert: it's pretty gross!
In the late 1970s, I attended Thruston Elementary School just outside the city limits of Owensboro, KY. I just recently learned about the man the school was named after.
Did you know women in Kentucky weren't legally allowed to bartend until 1972? Or even sit at a bar! Dixie Demuth decided to change that and this year, she was inducted into Kentucky's Bourbon Hall of Fame.
Kelly, Kentucky was once supposedly visited by Little Green Men on August 21st, 1955. Here is the story of "The Kelly Incident" a farmhouse stand-off which is still commemorated almost 70 years later.