Telia Butler

Did you know Kentucky has a rich quilting heritage? From the painted barn quilts on our road trip trails, to Paducah being the Quilting Capital of the World, to even the “Crazy Quilt Mania” exhibit at the Kentucky Museum, there’s an educational and artistic element to the quilting craft that’s been…

The summer solstice passed last week and we all enjoyed the longest day of sunshine for the year. Days will start getting shorter and we’ll notice longer covers of starry night skies. The Hardin Planetarium on WKU’s main campus launched a new summer program last week. Called “Moonbeings,” this progr…

If you are one of nature’s own, if you love the starlight of a winter’s evening, the witchery of yellow moonlight on the woodlands, nature will light her magic torch, and Mammoth Onyx Cave will be a fairyland of dreams,” wrote Leon Foster in 1922. Exactly a century ago, Mammoth Onyx Cave in Horse Ca…

One of the most famous Kentucky cave explorers would have celebrated a 135th birthday this month. In 1925, the Floyd Collins cave rescue story hit national and global headlines. Throwback Thursday revisits the unusual and unfortunate events that took place at Sand Cave, just outside Mammoth Cave, ne…

In Throwback Thursday segments of the past, we’ve shared stories of the founding of Bowling Green City Schools and many of their histories. This week, we’re taking a closer look at the history of our Warren County Public Schools. With more than a century on the books, public education in Warren Coun…

Throwback Thursday returns to Horse Cave in Hart County this week. Its founding family was the Wilsons, pioneers who braved the travel what was then the pioneer wilderness right after the American Revolution in the late 1700s. One of the Wilson family homes still sits just off Main Street in downtow…

The birthstone for the month of October is the opal. Our friends at Morris Jewelry in downtown Bowling Green researched the history of the opal, an extremely special gemstone sometimes known for its magical origin stories. In this week’s Throwback Thursday, we visit the superstitions and scandals of the opal. “Opalus” means a change in color and originated in ancient...

A holiday tradition is making an in-person comeback for the first time since the pandemic this season. The Landmark Association Christmas Tour of Homes is returning to Bowling Green this Sunday, December 4th . With eight historic homes featured on the tour, we’ll take you on a quick tour of what to…

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This year marks a special community milestone: Magna is celebrating 20 years in southern Kentucky. In the Kentucky Transpark, Bowling Green Metalforming was one of the first manufacturers to set up at the new northern Warren County industrial park. Employing nearly 1,500 people at a facility that’s over one million square feet, the Magna facility continues to evolve with new...