Hi, I am Jim, I love Kentucky, and traveling in and around Kentucky! I also love the entire country, and all of the beautiful and strange places here and there! This blog covers the overlooked, forgotten, and underrated places, people, and moments in history in America, with a focus on Kentucky!
It will cover great tourists stops, books about people and history, and include photos and postcard scans.
I put up another video on youtube recently of my old school, Berea College, and I peppered in some old postcards and photos to do a bit of a "Then and Now" comparison.
I mostly left Boone Tavern out because I thought it deserved a video all to itself.
As I mention in the video, I worked here some while attending Berea College in the 90s. I would meet my future wife while working here... and she spent all four of her Berea years working at the Tavern.
We still go down often, and we try to get a room there for a weekend every year or two, just because.
So, check out this video of my recent trip to Boone Tavern, along with some older images of the hotel/restaurant that has been there for well over a century!
I have talked a lot on this blog about my love of Berea College in Berea Kentucky. I have made many posts about it. And, I spent a good chunk of the 90s there...
Well, we were back on campus recently and I made another video. I added in some images of old photos and old postcards to do a bit of a "Then and Now" kind of thing.
I will be putting up a similar one that is Just Boone Tavern.
I do feel like the campus changes, but it changes very slowly.
I always think that, if someone hadn't been on campus for several decades and then they just showed up, it would still be an easy campus to recognize.
This older, undated postcard shows the grave of Ann Rutledge- a friend, and according to Abe Lincoln's law partner after Abe's death, an early girlfriend of the 16th President's.
Underneath the scan of the postcard, I have some photos from our recent visit to Oakland Cemetery, a few miles from New Salem, Illinois.
Check out the photo taken from roughly the same spot as the postcard! There are MORE monuments in the photo, but some of the tombstones and the pointed top building are in both!
Owensboro High has been a landmark in Owensboro forever! I went to Apollo myself, but I have relatives connected to OHS.
Here is an older postcard (I assume from the 50s) and a photo I took in February of 2012. I think it still looks very much the same, though more has been built up around it recently.
