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Joe Survant, an English professor at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green (pop. 49,296), is state poet laureate and author of poetry collections about Kentucky in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

first appeared: 1/2/2005

Toes should be tappin’ as you travel eastern Kentucky’s Country Music Highway, (U.S. Highway 23) along which a dozen famous country singers, including Loretta Lynn, Ricky Skaggs and Patty Loveless, once lived.

first appeared: 12/19/2004

Golfers at the Paintsville Golf Club in Paintsville (pop. 4,132) tee up for holes No. 10 and 17 to drive across the Big Sandy River and then cross a historic swinging bridge for their next shots.

first appeared: 12/5/2004

The 1974 Bondurant's Pharmacy in Lexington is shaped like a pharmacist's mortar and pestle.

first appeared: 11/21/2004

While drilling for salt in 1829 near Burkesville (pop. 1,756), a settler struck oil and bottled and sold it as medicine under the label "American Oil."

first appeared: 11/7/2004

In 1837, Congress funded the building of seven hospitals along inland waterways to treat sick mariners. The U.S. Marine Hospital in Louisville, though no longer a medical facility, is the sole survivor.

first appeared: 10/24/2004

At the intersection of Paducah’s (pop. 26,307) 19th and Jefferson Street stands a statue of Paduke, the Chickasaw Indian chief for whom the town was named.

first appeared: 10/10/2004

Songwriter Haven Gillespie, born in 1888 in Covington (pop. 43,370), and composer J. Fred Coots scribbled their biggest hit during a 15-minute subway ride in New York. Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town debuted on Eddie Cantor’s radio show in 1934.

first appeared: 10/3/2004

In 1969, Moneta J. Sleet Jr., a native of Owensboro (pop. 54,067), became the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize for photography.

first appeared: 9/19/2004

Since the 1920s, Muhlenberg County residents have competed at washer pitching, a downsized version of horseshoe pitching with 2-inch washers. The Kentucky State Washer Pitching Tournament is held each September in Greenville (pop. 4,398).

first appeared: 9/12/2004

At the Colonel Harland Sanders Cafe and Museum in Corbin (pop. 7,742), diners can see the 1940s kitchen where Sanders perfected his finger-lickin’ chicken.

first appeared: 9/5/2004

William Schroeder of Louisville received an artificial heart on Nov. 25, 1984, and survived a record 620 days.

first appeared: 8/29/2004

Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, came to Paducah (pop. 26,307) in 1884 to direct the organization’s first flood relief work, taking place along the Ohio River.

first appeared: 8/22/2004

The 1914 Belle of Louisville, which cruises the Ohio River in Louisville, is the nation’s oldest operating river steamboat.

first appeared: 8/15/2004

In 1873, Franz Kirchhoff, a German immigrant, opened a bakery in Paducah (pop. 26,307), which operated until the 1950s. In 1997, Ginny Kirchhoff Elmore revived her great-great-grandfather’s business, now known as Kirchhoff’s Bakery.

first appeared: 8/8/2004

George Washington’s flintlock rifle is among the treasures at the Frazier Historical Arms Museum in Louisville.

first appeared: 8/1/2004

Folks at the Trigg County Country Ham Festival in Cadiz (pop. 2,373) pig out each October on what they claim is the world’s largest ham and biscuit, weighing several hundred pounds.

first appeared: 7/25/2004

In Winchester (pop. 16,724), locals drink Ale-8-One soft drink, bottled there since 1926. G.L. Wainscott sponsored a contest to name the ginger-blended drink and the winner played on “a late one” or the latest thing in soft drinks.

first appeared: 7/18/2004

The state’s official steam locomotive is Old 152. The 1905 engine once hauled gangster Al Capone to prison and now is an exhibit at the Kentucky Railway Museum in New Haven (pop. 849).

first appeared: 7/11/2004

Every Corvette since 1982 has been built at General Motors’ plant in Bowling Green (pop. 49,296).

first appeared: 6/27/2004

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