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.

Kentucky Life
KET Saturday, April 27 • 8/7 pm
KET2 Wednesday, May 1 • 2:30/1:30 pm
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Kentucky Life is a KET production, produced by Casey Harris. View more Kentucky Life episodes online, as well as those from KET’s archives, at KET.org/KentuckyLife.

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