Kentucky Monthly

Founded in 1998, Kentucky Monthly focuses on the stories, locations, events, and culture of Kentucky. By showcasing the state's finest features, we bring together Kentuckians from all walks of life, fostering a sense of pride and belonging. Our magazine releases 10 issues each year, exploring a diverse range of subjects such as travel, history, home life, personal stories, entertainment, nature, opinions, education, health, arts, science, and much more.

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Crappie and Turkey Time

3 weeks ago | kentuckymonthly.com | Gary Garth

April. It’s everyone’s favorite month, aside from those of us who are equally fond of October. The weather, in general, has tempered and steadied but not yet obtained the sauna-like layering of heat and moisture that’s coming. Hiking trails are open, campgrounds are uncrowded, grass is green, forests are leafy, turkeys are gobbling, and crappie are spawning. What’s not to love? • • • Let’s start with turkeys.
A National Celebrity

3 weeks ago | kentuckymonthly.com | Jack Brammer

George Washington, commonly known as the “Father of His Country” for his indispensable role in bringing about American independence in the late 1700s, never had any biological children.
Semiquincentennial Celebrations

3 weeks ago | kentuckymonthly.com | Tracey Teo

Shawnee warriors led by Chief Blackfish have lurked outside Logan’s Fort for weeks, forcing its inhabitants to live under a cloud of fear and anxiety. Venturing outside the Kentucky frontier fort is risky, but food is scarce, so on May 30, 1777, three brave women put on their bonnets and leave to milk cows under the protection of William Hudson, Burr Harrison, John Kennedy and James Craig—all armed with flintlock muskets. The party immediately is ambushed.
Gatsby!

1 month ago | kentuckymonthly.com | Jack Brammer

Larry Johnson, longtime historian and master concierge of the elegant Seelbach Hilton Hotel in downtown Louisville, stood in the middle of the hotel’s 10th floor Grand Ballroom. Spiffily dressed in his work uniform, Johnson spoke of the famous people who have celebrated there. They have included presidents, movie celebrities and rock stars.
Conservation Camps

1 month ago | kentuckymonthly.com | Gary Garth

I am not a native Kentuckian but have lived in Kentucky longer than I’ve lived anywhere else, so perhaps you’ll afford me squatter’s rights to talk about a program with which I haven’t a shred of personal experience but a great deal of secondhand information. It’s the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources’ Conservation Camp program. The program is generations old, having started in 1949 at Camp John Currie on Kentucky Lake.
Dead

2 months ago | kentuckymonthly.com | Robert L. Penick

One day you find your first true love in an online obituary and you realize she hasnâ€™t been gone these past forty years. She has been beneath your skin, under the tattoos, scars and scabs that you thought were forgetting. She dwelt, like a cicada, under your feet and beneath your delible heart, waiting for an anniversary to split the wounds anew. Now you are rewound, back four decades, beneath a cold Kentucky moon. Everything has changed, after all these years.
Mettle

2 months ago | kentuckymonthly.com | Alex Berg

Daggum goats got out the paddock again. Busted a picket and squeezed right through, stared me down as if to say, Mr. “Big Shoulders,” huh? And you want hogs next? I let them browse and hop on the mower. Not but one pass across the acreage before rubber burns and the belt snaps. Well, if the old pusher kicks it, then I’ll take a whetstone to the scythe, after some growth, and stack that fescue for winter straw.
The Birthplace of Vertebrate Paleontology

2 months ago | kentuckymonthly.com | Gary Garth

When Meriwether Lewis departed Pittsburgh on Aug. 31, 1803, and headed down the Ohio River toward Louisville and his rendezvous with William Clark, he carried a full agenda from President Thomas Jefferson. One thing on the list: The president wanted some bones from Kentucky. Specifically, Jefferson wanted a sampling of bones and fossils from a salt lick and marshy region about 80 river miles upstream from Louisville.
A Sow-Sized Legacy of Loss

2 months ago | kentuckymonthly.com | Timothy Kleiser

What teeth are clinging to my jaw my mama gets the credit for. She liked to whoop me any time I went to bed before I brushed. Some nights, she’d play Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song.” My toothbrush was my hammer of the gods, she’d say, and if I stopped my hammering before Robert Plant stopped his, she had a hammer of her own and she would plant it on my backside. That made brushing fun.
A Major Decision

2 months ago | kentuckymonthly.com | Deborah Kohl Kremer

Students heading off to college have decisions to make that can set the course of their lives. Selecting a major sometimes comes first, resulting in a narrowed list of colleges and universities. If the college has been chosen first, then the student must decide on a major. Kentucky’s colleges and universities offer hundreds of majors—some that are common and some that are unusual or even unique to a particular school.