Kentucky Life

EKU's Aviation program, Kentucky State Park’s 100th anniversary, and 120 examples of Kentucky music.

The Kentucky Life crew traveled to Paducah in April 2024 to capture the Total Solar Eclipse.

Kentucky casualties in Michigan's Battle of the River Raisin, Natural Bridge State Park, Dan Dutton.

Folklore in Somerset, the story of Olivia Hatcher, haunted Octagon Hall, Louisville's Pan statue.

Old Fort Harrod State Park, The Monarch in Louisville, LEGO sets, Native Dawn Flute Gathering.

Public art in Covington, Cumberland Falls State Resort Park, glass artist Travis Adams, and more.

Rock stacking structures defy gravity, historical play in Pikeville, Lake Barkley State Resort Park.

Kentucky-based band, The Local Honeys, is dedicated to preserving and spreading traditional mountain music; the Appalachian Writers' Workshop in Hindman focuses on nurturing the next generation of Appalachian authors; and Chip joins the reenactment of the Battle of Blue Licks at Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort Park, which is considered the last official battle of the Revolutionary War.

Mike Linnig's, an iconic South Louisville seafood restaurant, celebrates 100 years; University of Kentucky sculpture professor Garry Bibbs credits his mentors with nurturing his talent; Kentucky Life travels to beautiful Taylorsville Lake State Park in Mount Eden; and HollerGirl Music Festival celebrates and showcases talented female musicians of Appalachia.

Film industry pioneer Madame Sul-Te-Wan, General Burnside Island State Resort Park, and more.

The Carcassonne Square Dance, First Robotics students, Nolin Lake State Park, and more.

Paducah's long and dynamic history with the movies; the Round-Leaved Sundew, a unique plant recently discovered in Kentucky; The Tobacco League was a popular baseball league in Central Kentucky between World War II and the Korean War; and two photographers captured scenes of Louisville during the twentieth century using developing technology.

Two Western Kentucky farmers are bucking the trend - choosing agriculture over city life; current Kentucky Poet Laureate Silas House; KCAL Old Time Radio recreates radio shows from the 1940s and 50s and performs them live from their theater in Nicholasville.

Jean Thomas, The Traipsin' Woman, traveled the mountains of Eastern Kentucky documenting traditional music; Chip explores Kincaid Lake State Park by kayak; Affrilachian poet Frank X Walker became Kentucky's Poet Laureate in 2013, the first African American to hold the honor; the Kentucky Harp Society aims to make harps more commonplace.

The KBO All-State band program brings together the state's best middle school musicians for an intense musical weekend; Crystal Wilkinson was Kentucky's Poet Laureate from 2021 until 2023; Chip visits Carter Caves State Resort Park where he learns about bat hibernation and the cave system's ecosystem; Chip learns about Pickleball from a 80-year-old national champion and then plays a professional.

Jenny Wiley was a frontier woman who became a legend of Kentucky history, and her legacy lives on at Jenny Wiley State Resort Park; Belle Townsend is a writer, organizer, and journalist who founded Backwoods Literary Press, documenting diverse rural voices; Brent Seales, a professor of computer science at the University of Kentucky, led an effort to digitally ancient scrolls from Herculaneum.