Growing Up Kentucky Monthly (Sydney)
I joked about titling this, “My parents are lucky I was never kidnapped.”
I joked about titling this, “My parents are lucky I was never kidnapped.”
Three hundred words to describe my experience as an editor’s daughter? I could write a Harry Potter-sized dissertation on the subject. My first comedy special will be called Daddy Issues. (Magazine. Issues. Get it?)
George C. Wolfe is most famous as a three-time Tony Award-winning director of plays and movies, including his new film Rustin, a biographical drama about the civil rights leader Bayard Rustin. But the Frankfort native has always been a writer at heart. He is the author of such plays and musicals as Spunk, The Colored […]
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Growing up Kentucky Monthly, I have many memories of unique experiences. As a young child, I remember loving the large display window and spending much time at the office while my mom and dad worked. To the pedestrians of St. Clair Street in downtown Frankfort, I hope you never minded me and my Polly Pockets […]
A winter afternoon, and fishing conditions are far from ideal: a cloudless sky and brilliant sun, its shard-like refractions ricocheting off the gin-clear creek and somehow darting behind my sunglasses. The temperature has climbed to nearly 40, but the sunshine and absence of wind makes it feel warmer. A shade too warm for the wool […]
Donated books reveal the inner lives of readers
Culinary traditions are integral in tying families and friends together. Joyful celebrations of holidays, weddings and births or somber gatherings, such as funerals, have food at their core. Writer Crystal Wilkinson, Kentucky’s poet laureate from 2021-2023, examines this theme in her new book Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of […]
By John W. McCauley, Lexington
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