July / 2006
Kentucky Living

This Month's Issue
 
On the Cover

 
Your best photos
Winners of the 2006 Kentucky Living Photo Contest should be very proud indeed. Out of an amazing 7,007 photos entered, the judges were forced to choose 25 winners in eight categories. The beauty, warmth, and fun of Kentucky shine in these photos
 
Seasons passed—a memoir
Norma Ramsey Eversole reflects on her family’s annual tobacco time—from pulling plants to setting, cutting and hanging, then stripping—while bringing back warm memories to generations of Kentuckians of a season and crop now almost gone
 
Hog Heaven in Little Sturgis
It’s a motorcycle rally like no other, attracting 24,000 enthusiasts to the tiny town of Sturgis in western Kentucky every July. The stars of the show are the bikes—with a bike blessing, bike show, poker run, and dirt drags—but the people-watching is what makes it interesting



 
From the Editor - Picture this
 
Commonwealths
Electric co-op scholarship deadline extended
A Kentucky of a place
The eagles have nested
Western milestone
 
Kindred Spirits - Fuel fix
 
Events
 
Cut Your Utility Bills - Chilling on the cheap
 
The Future of Electricity - Keeping birds off the wire
 
Traveling Kentucky
Go Back in Time at Museum of the Barrens
History Lives at Mountain HomePlace
 
Kentucky Kids Page - Fireflies
 
Kentucky Cooks - Homemade ice cream
 
At Home in the Garden - Vigorous vines
 
Money Matters - Writing wills and trusts
 
Your Health - Healthy travel
 
Great Outdoors - The lure of the night
 
The View From Plum Lick - Small cows, big dreams