Kentucky

The Magic of Fall

Sometimes, you don't know how special something is until you miss it. In the fall of 2000, I was beginning my sophomore year in college and kicked things off by spending a semester on a study-abroad program in Morelia, a gem of a colonial town in the mountains of...

Get in the Christmas spirit at the Galt House

  Although many people consider mid-November to be too early to usher in the Christmas season, it was impossible to be bah-humbug after my wife, Marcheta, and I attended a media weekend Nov. 15-17 in conjunction with the opening of Christmas at the Galt House...

Penguins, Sharks and Jellies

Aquariums are some of my favorite places to visit as I travel around the country. There's sometime about coming face-to-face with exotic ocean creatures that thrills me in a way that museums and historic sites simply can't. At Newport Aquarium, part of Newport on the...

Looking ahead to 2012 from Midway’s Railroad Street

On Friday, November 5, we took our annual editorial planning retreat back to Midway, Kentucky, a delightful little town that sits between Frankfort and Lexington in horse country.  Our retreats are always in late fall and have been held in places like Shaker Village...

Equestrian Games were an international hit

On Friday, October 8, my wife, Kim, and I took the afternoon to enjoy the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Lexington, Kentucky.  Throughout the course of the week, the games had been drawing increasingly large crowds as equestrians from dozens of countries around...

A perfect beginning

Pink and orange streaks of a beautiful sunset provided a perfect backdrop as Wynona Judd sang a stirring rendition of "My Old Kentucky Home," backed by the University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, to kick off the Opening Ceremonies of the Alltech FEI World...

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