Friday, Sue Neal and I went to Frankfort to check on her retirement. Afterwards, we drove up to Port Royal ... stomping ground for Wendell Berry that lives closeby. We ate at Rick's Farm Center and missed the Kentucky author by about a half an hour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Royal,_Kentucky
We then went by Larkspur Printing near Monterey, KY and had a good visit / good conversation there.
http://www.larkspurpress.com/
On to Shooting Star Nursery near Georgetown to get some native plants but, they were closed. John picked me up some basswood trees a couple of years ago there for me. Then, a quick tour of Georgetown College ... they are adding more housing.
http://shootingstarnursery.com/catalog/
Stayed in Lexington that night and visited Bybee Pottery the next day. We found they had closed some time ago and Sue Neal was devastated! The owner ran our of family and help to keep it going. Pictures are of store front and pottery left unfinished.
We took the back roads to Berea via Estill and Jackson Counties through the Daniel Boone Forest and over some mountains. At Berea, we went to several craft stores and ate lunch a Boone's Tavern. Saturday afternoon we snaked our way home through Garrard, Lincoln and Casey Counties.
We went through a little town called Kings Mountain in Lincoln County that had a colorful history involving a mile long tunnel and a circus train disaster. Now that is a great story!
http://www.myhubbardmtn.com/Kings%20Mountain.htm
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