Kentucky

The Start of Something Big

In a series of novels and story collections written over the course of several decades, Henry County farmer/writer Wendell Berry has created and populated an entire community—the fictional yet recognizable Port William. This week the bookclub@ket panelists look back at the very first of those books, the coming-of-age story Nathan Coulter. • 11:30/10:30 pm CT on KET1

Hoops on Wheels

Dr. Tim Nugent, organizer and first commissioner of the National Wheelchair Basketball Association, joins Bill Goodman on the next edition of One to One to talk about the founding, goals, and development of the organization and the physical and social barriers that still confront people with disabilities. • 12:30 am/11:30 pm CT on KET1

Earlier Today ...

Learn more about the people and places featured in today’s Louisville Life and Kentucky Life programs at the series web sites.

Online A-Muse-Ment

Think you know the mystery genre? Test your whodunit IQ with our Mystery Trivia Quiz, created to accompany the Kentucky Muse documentary “Murder, They Wrote,” about Owensboro’s annual International Mystery Writers’ Festival.

Local Heroes

Our web site for the Oral History Commission documentary Living the Story: The Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky has lots of background and follow-up info, including profiles of the Kentuckians interviewed in the video, extended video interviews, a historical timeline and image gallery, and resources for teachers.

Kentucky’s Other Fab Five

Our documentary Living by Words celebrates the lives and works of Kentucky writers Ed McClanahan, Bobbie Ann Mason, Wendell Berry, James Baker Hall, and Gurney Norman. The accompanying web site offers an interactive timeline, lists of links—and, of course, plenty of interesting reading.

Take Us with You

Commute with Connections, take Dave Shuffett on your next outdoor adventure, or hold Louisville Life in the palm of your hand. Several of our local productions are available via audio and video podcasts, so you can watch or listen on your schedule. See our KET by RSS page for details and subscription links.

A Walk in the Woods

One of our video “field trips” was a look at forest habitats and management in Kentucky. If you haven’t gotten to see the Electronic Field Trip to the Forest on our in-school channel, you can watch it online while checking out all the other facts and features at the accompanying web site.