Genealogy/Surnames
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Mary Pillow Dawson Ficklin – my chance discovery.
My late husband’s parents kept everything. I mean generations of family pictures, many of them still in frames. Recently, I decided to take one of the pictures out of its frame in order to scan it. Underneath it was another old picture – a really old picture! How exciting and how wonderful to see a… Continue reading
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Dawson Headstones
I’ll try to add more info to this post in the future. Continue reading
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What’s in the Woods? – My dad’s memories of growing up without deer, turkey, bear, and elk in Salt Lick, KY.
In this post, my dad, Joe Karrick, writes about wildlife in Bath County. He told me a while back that he didn’t see his first deer until he was a teenager, and that really amazed me. I guess I found that so hard to believe because I take them for granted. I have seen them… Continue reading
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My dad’s memories of stripping tobacco on the family farm in Salt Lick, Ky.
In this post, my dad, Joe Karrick, reflects on his memories of stripping tobacco. As he notes, tobacco was once grown on almost every Kentucky farm. Indeed, data from the USDA shows that in the 1950s, Kentucky had around 136,000 working tobacco farms, but by 2022 that number had dropped to 984. That decrease came… Continue reading
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Hog Killin’ Weather
A few years ago, as I was looking at digitized copies of the Owingsville Outlook, I happened upon this interesting tidbit in which the writer states, “Hog-killing, Thanksgiving and Christmas to look forward to before the blue days of winter come on.” It struck me that “hog-killing” seemed a celebratory event, one on par with… Continue reading
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"Cap" Dawson’s Blacksmith Shop
In this entry, Mr. Burl writes about the blacksmith shops that were in Owingsville and specifically mentions “Cap” Dawson. In his book, The History of Bath County, John Adair Richards also mentions Cap Dawson. From the journals: Have you ever watched a blacksmith prepare a shoe for shoeing a horse? All of our Bath County… Continue reading
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Brigadier General James Virgil Thompson
Reposting in honor of Memorial Day and for D-Day, which is right around the corner. June 6th of this year marks the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the day when allied forces stormed the beaches of… Continue reading
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TV in 1934? A Trip to the Chicago World’s Fair.
From Daddy’s notes on the 1933-1934 Chicago World’s Fair: What is Television? Who are you trying to kid? Projecting a picture and sound through the atmosphere? No, we believe this to be some kind of joke! Well, let’s go in and see about this thing called television.Five young Owingsville men, after hearing all the glowing… Continue reading
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DARNELL FAMILY COLORIZED PHOTOS
This photo of my grandmother Sallie Darnell was taken in about 1940 in front of their home on Coyle St. in Owingsville. Mr. Jeff must have been at work at the bank. In the background you can see three buildings still in use on Slate Ave. in Owingsville. Apparently the photo was a specialty picture… Continue reading
Echoes of Owingsville 