Dave takes a road trip to Red Bird with a convoy of Model T and Model A enthusiasts; at the confluence of the Ohio and Kentucky Rivers, Carrollton is Our Town; Trigg Enterprise is a family farming business in Barren County raising produce, Black Angus cattle, and tilapia; and a greenhouse in Paducah specializes in Tillandsias, plants grown without soil known as ‘air plants.’
Vintage Fords and the Kentucky Connection
Henry Ford’s Model T automobile was one of the most influential inventions in American history, and it still has plenty of fans today. Kentucky Life’s Dave Shuffett met up with a group of vintage car enthusiasts to explore the Kentucky connection to these early automobiles.
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Our Town: Carrollton, Kentucky
Carrollton, Kentucky, is a small town situated along the Ohio and Kentucky Rivers. The waterways provide a scenic backdrop for a charming downtown area.
“It’s a small town and it has a small-town flavor,” says historian Jim Fothergill. “I’ve lived here all my life except for college and the Air Force, and I chose to come back here because I love to walk down the street and speak to everybody and in the larger cities, you don’t do that.”
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Trigg Enterprise
In the Southern Kentucky city of Glasgow, Trigg Enterprise brings fresh food to the community while revitalizing a family farming way of life.
“Between Louisville, Lexington, Bowling Green, Glasgow, we all have food deserts,” says Joe Trigg, one of five brothers who own and operate Trigg Enterprise. “In those food deserts, there are a lot of folks who don’t have the food or the kind of food that they need. I believe as a nation, we moved away from the fresh produce and I think the only potential savior for small farmers is if somewhere a model could be established nationally, statewide, where those small farms generate an income.”
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Tillandsias from Plant Oddities
The greenery grown and sold at Paducah’s Plant Oddities isn’t your average selection of houseplants. They’re Tillandsias, also known as air plants, and owner Louis Davis offers lots of reasons to collect and admire them.
“It was back in 1997, I accidentally happened upon this website for a nursery that was a grower for tillandsias,” says Davis. “I’d never heard of a plant that didn’t grow in soil and so I ordered a sample order of them, got them in, and they were so unique and there were so many different kinds.”
