She got an auditorium named after her. What else does she want?
Anybody read this book, “The Bluegrass Conspiracy”?
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I'm honestly not sure people fully understand how wild Kentucky was in the late '70s and early '80s. Anything was possible. Literally anything.
It was a really unique time and it's gone forever. What I miss more than anything was the almost absolute freedom. Freedom like people today can't comprehend.
It was a really unique time and it's gone forever. What I miss more than anything was the almost absolute freedom. Freedom like people today can't comprehend.
More like Phallus-tines.
Thelma Beeler taught drama to the great Harry Dean Stanton. mic drop.
Jim Varney was before my time, but from everything I’ve read, he sounded like a good dude to hang out with.
I knew a guy that swore up and down he went to high school with Austin Kearns. Despite being about 10 years younger
There was a Justified episode that alluded to it. The parachute crash was in Corbin, not Knoxville.and the guy was named Drew Thompson, not Thornton.q
Gotta love The CatPaw. Post a thread about a book and it turns into an unrelated and unscheduled middle school reunion. 😁
Also have several personal family connections with people in that book. Among other things, my granddad was general counsel to the LPD at the time that was all going on. I asked my dad if they ever discussed it, and he said he asked him just one time about it. His response: “Son, I’ll put it like this; those guys did whatever the **** they wanted.” Never spoke of it again.
On the movie aspect, I heard not long ago on a podcast Sally Denton herself stating that every year when the option period arrives, she receives her money. Apparently there are plenty of people still living that don’t want that movie made.
You sure it wasn't written by Nick Roush?
I remember Gary and Shirley. The family was members at Rosemont Baptist as well. Played a lot of basketball with Gary there.
My brothers had that canary yellow 71 Nova SS that I wish I would have gotten, I’m still made about that. 😡.
I do remember shooting hoops on the patio. IIRC, your sister had a pretty good shot or am I thinking of someone else?
The story implicates the federal government in arms and drug dealing. There will be a movie on that right after a hard-hitting, well-sourced documentary on the US involvement with the Wuhan Institute of Virology drops.
You saying you believe Melanie Flynn is in witness protection?
It's a story about dozens of people in Lexington, some from pretty prominent families. Of course a lot of people here know names from that book. My uncle used to joke that TBC was the only book he'd read since college, and the only reason he read it was to make sure his own name didn't show up.
Interesting side note... My grandmother taught Jim Varney when he was a student. She moved to Asland a few years later and had Ashley Judd as a student too.
Well she's probably dead now seeing as it has been 50 years or so but, yes, it is my belief that her disappearance was likely the result of her being given a new identity for cooperating with federal authorities rather than her being murdered and buried somewhere (or dropped at the bottom of Herrington Lake).
Both her brothers are still alive. One is a police officer here in central Kentucky.
My dad went to high school and grew up playing ball with the one that was part of the Big Red Machine. Father was the one who always took your ticket and gave you your invisible ink stamp when you walk into the Keeneland clubhouse. Also a fixture on the Rupp floor; joke was he never sat down, just walked around the perimeter all game talking to people and gladhanding. He never truly got over losing her, from people that knew him well.
