Pondering Kentucky: The Magazine, Issue 22, 1992

Interview Summary

Ray Smith talks about his homing pigeons and how he got into the hobby of raising pigeons.

Jim Cleeves talks about wine-making and its connection to the Monte Casino Chapel, the world's smallest church.

Horticulturalist Mark Timmons talks about a disease that is killing dogwood trees.

Tom Edwards talks about skunk breeding season and the trapping of otters in Kentucky that led to a decline in the otter population.

Bastin reads a humorous letter to the Secretary of Agriculture.

Henry Thurman and Lucian Parker of the Fiddlers of the Bluegrass Club talk about playing the fiddle and the process of keeping the tradition alive at their meeting. Thurman plays a song.

Bastin speaks with Lloyd Wheeler, a member of the Kentuckiana Outdoor Power Association, about his collection of gas and steam engines.

Charles Manchester talks about the Dubois-Robertson drugstore in the Market House Museum in Paducah, Kentucky. He discusses different items that one would find in an old drugstore such as this one.

The song "Kentucky" by Henry Prichard is played.

The issue ends with Mark Timmons talking briefly about grass seed and lawn care.

Interview Keyword

Small churches Wine-making Gas engines

Interview LC Subject

Homing pigeons Vineyards Dogwoods Plant diseases Skunks Otters Trapping Fiddlers Fiddle tunes Drugstores

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