This fall, Dolly Parton celebrated her 50th anniversary as a member of the Grand Ole Opry. The impersonator Carla Jean Morgan is keeping Dolly’s image — and legacy in country music — alive on the party-town streets of Nashville. Story by Sara Krog Photos by Sofie...
By Jeremy Chisenhall Temperatures reached 91 degrees in Mount Carroll, Illinois, on the day rescuers pulled Alejandro “Alex” Pacas and Wyatt Whitebread’s dead bodies from a grain bin. The heat started it all. Whitebread fainted while “walking the grain,” in which a...
The McDonald’s Man thinks you deserve a break today. By Manny Dixon-Peralta Monday. 3:30 a.m.: Jimmy Smith, 54, rises to the sound of a blaring alarm. His joints pop as he stretches out his arms to silence the electronic yell. To most, it is still the middle of the...
The embalmer’s story is a tale of art and heart. By Annalee Hubbs Kevin Kirby, a Bowling Green funeral director, leads his life knowing the moment we breathe we start taking our last breath. He reckons we’re all just a blip in the grand scheme of things. But Kirby has...
Story by Sara Krog Photos by Sofie Skødt Mortensen Megan Karr, 36, walks back and forth in her bedroom in Louisville, Kentucky, on a Friday in November 2019 looking for her hat in a pile of clothes.It does not hang on the wall with the rest of her neatly sorted hats —...
A chance meeting leads to a strong 'tie'. By Annalee Hubbs It was Sept. 7, 2010, and several men wearing fitted black suits tucked one-of-a-kind bolo ties neatly beneath their button-down collars before lining up as honorary pallbearers for the funeral of a man who...
Leading a full life under the radar. By Manny Dixon-Peralta Burdine Street. Late July. The sun has fallen. All is quiet, bar the tunes of the crickets and cicadas drifting aimlessly into the warm summer dark. In his humble home, along this modest street in Somerset,...
WKU student thinks outside the box with her new pet By Meredith Neltner After two years in the dorm, it was finally time for McCall Ponzer to move into her first apartment and more importantly, get her first pet. It couldn’t be a boring, high-maintenance pet.It needed...
By Kiki Wagner “Wigs flying in the air,”, “sweaty seven-second costume changes,” and “backstage adrenaline rushes” are only some of the thrills of being a wig and makeup design major, according to Raegan Calvert. Behind the curtains, Calvert and her wig designer run...
By Maddie Blankley Heather Lawson works as an adjunct professor at Campbellsville University, all while developing the younger music community through vocal and piano lessons and still performing in shows. Lawson’s life has been filled with music in different ways...