I’ve looked around on the internet for “what it’s like to be a Kentuckian” and can’t really find a good list, so I thought I’d collect a bit here.

For me to be a Kentuckian (or in my case a Central Kentuckian) means:

• that you feel weird when the road is wider than one lane
• that green is your absolute favorite color, it is essential to your soul
• that even if you say you don’t like bluegrass music, you still tap your feet and find yourself humming the tune
• that you believe horses are people too
• that even if you don’t like sports, you do like basketball (it’s in a league of its own)
• that folk art can be fine art; very, very fine art
• that spring, summer, and fall rain can be refreshing when you’re sitting on a back porch
• that you’re asked in every other state why you don’t have an accent

A GOOD QUOTE:

Bluegrass music is the sound of Kentucky to me…….from the high lonesome mountains to the rolling horse farms & the endless river towns I feel that it belongs to Kentucky…..and I am so proud to be from Kentucky. – Larry Cordle, Bluegrass Musician

10.29.2007 at 10:16 pm | filed under: collected thoughts

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