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In the eye of the storm A bonanza of bourbon 7 COMMONWEALTHS 53 FUN FALL FESTIVALS Colorful expressions, a 56 EVENTS 2018 Best in Kentucky bourbon history road trip, Caterpillar counting, saving a historical mansion COVER STORY From day trips to sweet spots, find frontier days, Edmonton’s 24 and more out who was voted the best of the best in the Bluegrass. bicentennial, 4,000 pounds ON THE GRID of ham, and more 58 CHEF’S CHOICE 10 FUTURE OF Work Hard, Sing Harder ELECTRICITY Slow cookin’ 38 J.D. Shelburne may be ”the hardest-working Ten years later: Lessons 59 GREAT OUTDOORS learned from Hurricane Ike man in the music business.” Find out why. Kentucky’s trout nursery 12 CUTTING COSTS 60 GARDEN GURU Do skylights create sky-high Spice up your landscape energy bills? Don’t Miss a Beat 61 SMART HEALTH Full of talent, intelligence and drive, Kevin 13 GADGETS & GIZMOS Can cervical cancer be 43 High-tech bathrooms prevented? Olusola of Pentatonix has Kentucky roots. 14 CO-OPS CARE 62 KENTUCKY Stuff the Bus MARKETPLACE ON THE COVER Artist David Enge of Tater Knob Pottery 15 ENERGY 101 64 SNAP SHOT Smart home technology demonstrates throwing clay vessels on the wheel during the 65 KENTUCKY KIDS Berea Craft Festival, which was named the best arts and 34A LOCAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE NEWS 66 BYRON CRAWFORD’S crafts fair in Kentucky by Kentucky Living readers. Photo: KENTUCKY Michael Matthews Photography/Berea Tourism Letters to Charlie WWW.KENTUCKYLIVING.COM • SEPTEMBER 2018 3 Your favorite things It’s become a tradition. For the ninth year readers voted for their favorites for the magazine’s Best in Kentucky awards (page 24). With 91 people, places, events and things Archives and much more content on our website! rising to the top, we know you will find plenty new and old to enjoy in the commonwealth. WINNING If that’s not enough, turn to page 52 for fun fall travel ideas—and register to win a GOOD, BETTER, BEST weekend for four to Horse Cave. You’ll find Dive deeper into this 100 Kentucky festivals beginning on page 53. year’s award winners Then, there’s Bardstown’s five-day Bourbon For the second year, Kentucky Living Festival (page 48) that begins September 12. presented its Best in Kentucky If your favorite summer-slipping-into-fall awards at the Kentucky State KENTUCKY activity is fishing, then you’ll like our catfish Fair. Visit our website to watch a 2018 feature on page 16. Everyone has their favor- recording of the show, and find links ite bait—from chicken livers to cheese hot for all of this year’s winners. dogs. What’s yours? Growing up on a farm in Spencer County with two fishing pay lakes, PARKS STATE KENTUCKY FISHING the real trick to get fish to bite was to “hold your mouth right,” according to my father. BREAK OUT THE BAIT We also catch up with two multi-talented Recreation in a neighborhood near you musicians who Fishing is a favorite pastime in Kentucky, and the Kentucky Department of Fish proudly call and Wildlife Resources is making it easier to fish local. Through the Fishing in Kentucky home: Neighborhoods, or FINS, program, the state stocks 44 lakes with catfish and rainbow J.D. Shelburne BROCK SHANNON trout. Many of these lakes are in or near electric cooperative service areas. For a list (page 38) and of these areas, visit KentuckyLiving.com. But first, flip to page 16 and read about the Pentatonix’s Kevin joys of catfish fishing. Olusola (page 43). 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