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Get a free tree at Bernheim Forest

If you’re working on your yard this spring, consider planting a tree. There are lots of reasons for planting trees, and one of the most compelling is that trees help us breathe by producing oxygen and absorbing carbon dioxide. They also provide shade, form windbreaks and help prevent erosion.
In honor of Arbor Day, Bernheim Forest… »

Documentary raises questions about mining methods and the devastation required to meet energy needs

FILM REVIEW

By BILL GOODMAN
At the very core of our national debate over climate change, alternatives fuels and the existence of so-called “clean coal technology” comes a new and enlightening documentary that challenges conventional thinking about the mining and operation of coal companies that few people ever see.

Deep Down: A Story from the Heart… »

Memorable characters, narrator’s insights immerse reader in House’s latest novel

BOOK REVIEW

By MARY POPHAM

With a magic wand of words, Silas House casts his readers into the mind of a 10-year-old boy, Eli Book. This is the age when a child’s experiences begin to inform his life and his emotional makeup jells. Eli’s formative period is 1976, at the end of the Vietnam era, when all… »

Solar in Kentucky? 1970s house shows it works

By TOM EBLEN
Lexington Herald-Leader
Richard Levine has heard all of the arguments about why solar energy won’t work in Kentucky. And he has been defying them for three decades.
Levine, a University of Kentucky architecture professor, designed and built one of the nation’s first solar homes on 32 acres he bought in 1974 near Raven Run Nature… »

Through a Poet’s Lens:
James Baker Hall’s photographs on exhibit at 21c Museum

By KIMBERLY ELLEN ANDERSON

Until April’s end, connoisseurs of both visual and written art can witness how a renowned writer sees the dreamy morning landscapes of rural Kentucky or the humble, rustic and brilliant personalities of the state’s authors, such as Wendell Berry and Bobbie Ann Mason.
James Baker Hall, author of The Mother on the Other… »

Food, Love and Ms. Fannie Neal

ESSAY
By MAEGEN NEAL

As a choir of tree frogs and cicadas sang the night’s lullaby, the soft laughter of Fannie Neal’s survivors echoed off the evergreen trees and rusted junk cars. The thickness of a Kentucky summer still hung in the air, perspiring onto the blades of bluegrass and weeds that grew together in a sort of… »