Karrick
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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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High School and the National Guard (William Owen Karrick Story: Part 3)
Salt Lick National Guard, 1927. Those identified are Captain Corbett Gullett, Corbet Copher, William Karrick, Jim Fawns, Herndon Dickerson, Hugh Karrick, Clifford Wells, Roger Karrick, Van Green, Billy Frizzell and Robert Clark. Salt Lick School, date unknown This week, we continue with our series of excerpts from my great-uncle’s memoirs – hope you’re… Continue reading
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1918 Flu and More (William Owen Karrick Story, Part 2)
The great flu pandemic hit during the last year of WWI. More people died from the flu than from the war. From the November 21, 1918 edition of the Owingsville Outlook More from my great uncle’s memoirs this week – in this excerpt, he writes about the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. More… Continue reading
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From White Sulpher to Salt Lick (William Owen Karrick Story: Part 1)
Hugh Karrick, 1845-1925 (my great, great-grandfather) My (Ginger’s) great-uncle William Owen Karrick wrote about growing up in Salt Lick. For those of you who don’t know, my grandfather was Hugh Karrick of Salt Lick, and his brothers and sisters included Travis (father of Ann and Nan), Edsel… Continue reading
Echoes of Owingsville 