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Cradle to the grave care is incomplete. Womb to the tomb is more accurate. On this episode of Kentucky Health, host Dr. Wayne Tuckson talks with Dr. Donna Grigsby, a pediatrician with UK HealthCare, about changing the timeline on pediatric care.
On this episode of Kentucky Life, host Chip Polston explores Guns to Gardens Louisville, a group that teams up with a local blacksmith to turn surrendered guns into gardening tools; the International Festival in Bowling Green, which celebrates the city’s diversity (with more than 100 languages spoken in the city’s school districts alone); the fashionable doll clothing made by Soreyda Begely, a former Honduras sweatshop worker who uses her dressmaking talents to bring attention to the issue of sustainability in fashion; and the Black Patch Tobacco Wars from 1906 in which farmers in Princeton, Ky., took up arms and burned tobacco warehouses in retaliation against what they saw as the monopolistic practices of national tobacco companies.
Most people know the Kentucky Derby as the greatest two minutes in sports. But Louisvillians know that derby festivities are happening long before the race begins, from Thunder Over Louisville to the Steamboat races and more. On this episode of Inside Louisville, host Kelsey Starks explores what goes into putting on the annual Kentucky Derby Festival by talking with those who know it best: Matt Gibson, president of the Kentucky Derby Festival, and Wayne Hettinger, who has produced Thunder Over Louisville since its inception.
On this episode of Kentucky Life, host Chip Polston explores the STEM Camp Invention in Pulaski County; the cultural and crafts offerings of the Little Loomhouse in Louisville; The Working Cat Project, which finds cats in need of a home with property owners who have rodent problems; and the Falls of the Ohio, which harbors an abundance of fossils of prehistoric creatures and plants.
On Kentucky Tonight, airing Monday, April 15, Renee Shaw is joined by a guest panel to discuss the legislative session.
In 2023, a Kentucky farmer discovered a cache of more than 800 gold and silver Civil War-era coins buried in a cornfield — a rare find one coin expert said was “hard to comprehend.” The discovery triggered an avalanche of media interest from around the globe, with stories appearing in The New York Times, The Guardian, Smithsonian Magazine and USA Today, among others. Fearing an onslaught of fortune seekers on his property, the Kentucky farmer went to great lengths to remain anonymous and silent — until now.
On this special Kentucky Life episode, for the first time ever we hear from the farmer, as well as antique coin expert Jeff Garrett with Mid-America Rare Coin Galleries, offering their thoughts about that fateful day and the discovery now known as The Great Kentucky Hoard. We also hear from UK historian Amy Murell-Taylor on what was happening in Kentucky during the Civil War that may have led to these coins being put in the ground, and we go exploring with three guys who call themselves The Dirt Nerds as they search for buried treasure in the Bluegrass.
Sometimes good pediatric care includes providing care and guidance for the parent. On this episode of Kentucky Health, host Dr. Wayne Tuckson talks with Dr. Charlotte Stites, a pediatric specialist in Louisville, about two generation pediatric care.
On this episode of Kentucky Life, host Chip Polston explores a quirky street game called Dainty hosted by Louisville’s Schnitzelburg neighborhood; the Red River Gorge Climbers’ Coalition, which maintains safe trails for climbers; the natural beauty of Pine Mountain State Resort Park, Kentucky’s first state park; the husband and wife rockstar duo of David and Teresa Prince, who play with Laid Back Country Picker and Luna and the Mountain Jets.
If providing housing for the unhoused would reduce healthcare costs, would you be in favor of the allocation of such funds? On this episode of Kentucky Health, host Dr. Wayne Tuckson talks with Tom Walton, a population health consultant with the University of Louisville, about housing as a healthcare cost.
On Kentucky Tonight, airing Monday, March 25, Renee Shaw is joined by a guest panel to discuss the state budget.