Family Tree Nuts
So, you and your sibling sent your spit in to one of the DNA testing companies and got different results. On no, is my dad, really my dad? You learn you are 45% German and your sibling is 32%. Your results say that you are 20% Irish and you sibling is 15%. Your sibling’s results…
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Lincoln Impersonator Whit McMahan sits in front of the cabin at the Abraham Lincoln Knob Creek Boyhood Home National Historical Park Most folks know that Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky, but not as many are aware that from ages two to eight-years-old, he moved a few miles away to the Knob Creek Farm. Lincoln…
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Civil War fort at Boonesboro? Wait? I thought Boonesboro was a pioneer fort, during the Revolutionary War? But wait, you read that correctly, there was a Civil War fort at Boonesboro as well, stay with me, and I’ll tell you it’s story! It’s one of the most obscure historic sites in the Bluegrass Region of…
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No! You are NOT Cherokee! Your Great-Great Grandma was NOT full-blooded Cherokee, nor was she a Cherokee Princess! I know that I am going to make a ton of people mad here and before the end of this story there are many of you that will think I’m completely crazy, but I don’t care, I’m…
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They crept through the forest and waded silently through Shawnee Run with all of their senses on full alert, looking for footprints, a bit of moss missing from the rocks in the creek, a broken branch, or any sign at all left by those who wished to destroy them. Those left back at Fort Harrod…
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Did you know that you can visit and even step inside the actual cabin that Abraham Lincoln’s parents were married in, and first lived as husband and wife? I’ll show it to you and tell you this cabin’s awesome story! Abraham Lincoln is viewed by many as our greatest President and although controversial to some,…
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This historic location has been owned by two colonels, one Union and one Confederate. The inn has stayed in the family name for five generations making it Kentucky’s oldest family operated country inn. For more than six decades a women’s college stood here which educated well over one thousand women of the area. It has…
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Have you ever quietly wondered what someone famous and important from history saw with their eyes? Have you ever wondered if they were in a certain area that you were standing? Have you wondered what the area looked like in their time, and how it compares to what it looks like today? Well, on this…
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The headstone at his grave is almost completely taken by the roots of an American elm tree, and soon it may be unrecognizable. He lies with thousands of military men, so many that it becomes overwhelming to try to process all of the faces and the stories this lie beneath each white headstone. This soldier…
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Ohio was at the forefront of a large part of the action of the War of 1812. Important battles took place in Ohio not only on land, but also large-scale naval battles on the Lake Erie. Militiamen from Ohio first saw action in the war at the Battle of Brownstown and the Battle of Oakwoods…
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