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There's ale in them thar tanks! Inside Alltech's Kentucky Ale brewery in Lexington, KY.
Canon Canonet 28, Kodak Tri-X, D-76 1:1
Penn,s Store is located in the Forkland area of Marion, Boyle and Casey County, Kentucky. The property is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places
and is a designated Kentucky Historical Landmark, also is listed as a Kentucky Centennial Business.
.........................Penn's Store is the oldest country store in America run by the same family since 1850. The age of the store is not actually known. It can be traced back to 1845 when William Spragens at age 21 ran the store; however, others are known to have run it before Spragens.
Gabriel Jackson "Jack" Penn was the first Penn to own the store. In c.1870 ownership and operation of the store was transferred from Jack Penn to his oldest son, Martin Wilson "Dick" Penn. Dick Penn was born the second child of nine children on February 19, 1852. He married Isabelle May and they had one son, David Martin Penn. Dick and Isabelle lived in a little house next to the store.
Dick Penn was truly a man of many talents. Among his professions were being a surveyor, dentist, druggist, and postmaster. He was the community's first postmaster and Penn's Store was site of the first post office in the area known as Rollings, Kentucky. In c.1910 the post office moved to Gravel Switch to be close to the train, which would stop in the town to get gravel from the creek.
Dick Penn was given a grant by the governor of Kentucky to administer drugs. Penn's Store carried a wide assortment of drugs which Penn sold to the local people. Penn was also known to have a cure for skin cancer and treated many people with such afflictions. He was given the cure by a foreign doctor. It is believed that he came to the area to meet with Dr. Cleaver who had an office near the store. Dick Penn swore to secrecy the formula and never divulged its ingredients. Since no one in the family held Penn's love for medicine, on July 4, 1913, after a hot day of surveying, Martin Wilson Penn died from a heat stroke on the store porch. Thus, the cancer secret went with him.
Dick's son, Martin Penn, at age 36 became the new store keeper. Born March 24, 1877, Martin married Nina Sue Kirkland and they had 10 children. Five boys and five girls: Daisy (b.1899), Evelyn (b.1901), Theol (b.1904), Paulette (b. 1906), Haskell (b.1908), Gerald (b.1911), Jeane (b. 1913), Alma (b.1915), Hunter (b.1919), Miles (b.1922).
Penn's Store looked quite different in its younger years than it does today. There were many buildings that surrounded the store. There was a spirits shop to the right of the store, a poultry coop used to house chickens and assorted fowl that people brought to the store to trade for goods, and a storage building that Dick Penn used to keep his surplus drugs. Dick and Isabelle's house was to the left of the store, complete with a rock walk leading to the store. After Dr. Cleaver left the area, his office and house became the home of Martin and Sue Penn. The store then carried a wide variety of goods. There were shoes, fabric, farming tools, lanterns, and just about any thing that was needed by a rural inhabitant.
Martin Penn, with the help of his five sons, farmed while also tending to the store. However, one day in 1933, while raking hay with a team of horses, the team got spooked and ran off with him. Martin's legs were entangled in the reins and he was dragged along the creek bed near the store. Shortly thereafter he died from massive injuries.
Sue Penn, "Mammy" as she was affectionately called, became the new storekeeper. Along with all of the children she kept the store running. By this time, some of the children were married and had moved to other states, but some of the children had moved nearby and came daily to help. Haskell, who never married, stayed with Mammy to help work the family farm and help tend to the store. Alma, "Tincy", came daily to help with the store and do the "women's chores" around the house. In 1972, at the age of 92, Mammy died in her sleep.
This left Haskell as the next storekeeper, along with help from Tincy, who still would come and do the "women's work" plus stay in the store on occasion. Haskell tended the store for many years. He lived alone in the family house. Penn's Store had changed little over the course of the years. It was still the place to come to in the community and new residents would always make themselves known to Penn's Store. Haskell kept the store open seven days a week, rain or shine.
In 1993, after suffering a stroke, Haskell passed away. He was 84. He passed the store on to his youngest sister Tincy, who kept everything just as it was with little changes. Tincy received help from her daughter and grand-daughters in keeping the store open every day, seven days a week, rain or shine.
In June 2000, one of Tincy's granddaughters, Dava, passed away from a heart condition. In December 2001, Alma 'Tincy' Penn Lane passed away. She passed the store on to her daughter Jeanne Penn Lane and grand-daughter, Dawn Lane Osborn.
Kentucky State Police
Ford Explorer Utility
Vehicle #4509
Picture Date: 09/01/2015
A Kentucky State Police Ford Explorer Utility sits parked in Fenton, Michigan during the funeral services of Trooper Chad Wolf. Trooper Wolf, of the Michigan State Police, was killed in the line of duty.
UH-60 Black Hawks with the Kentucky National Guard's 63rd Theater Aviation Brigade approach their landing zone near M109 Paladins of the 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery during a training exercise at Fort Knox, Ky. July 22, 2015. (U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Staff Sgt. Scott Raymond)
Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Special Tactics Squadron load a UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopter with lifesaving equipment at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky., July 30, 2022. In response to flooding in Eastern Kentucky, the unit coordinated 29 rotary-wing relief missions, rescued 19 people and two dogs, and recovered four bodies. Their command-and-control efforts also facilitated the assistance or recovery of 40 people. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Clayton Wear)
Located off of Hwy. 376 , in the Frymire area of Meade County, Kentucky.
Had been following Hwy. 144 West toward Cloverport when this came into sight. ..........A slight detour was taken !.
Looks a lot like a photo that would be taken in the Dakotas. This blue of a sky is not an everyday sight in Kentucky.
I'll say it a million times. The Main Street Historic District is my FAVORITE part of downtown. I LOVE the old iron buildings and those gorgeous facades.
On the weekends is the best because you do see the hustle and bustle of the business district.
This was, of course, taken with the fish. It's probably the only way to fit it all in, plus anyone who knows me knows that i LOVE the fisheye .. :D
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Capitol Building of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Took a little road trip to Frankfort last night, just because I'd never been there.
Soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 238th Aviation Regiment saved an elderly woman from one on many flooded areas around Kentucky by getting her to the hospital for needed care while conducting search and rescue, March 2, 2021. (Courtesy of the Kentucky National Guard)
Kentucky no siempre es un estado de un país norteamericano. Aquí es un pizzería de esas que ofrecen pizza al corte. - Kentucky is not always a state of an North American country. Here is a pizzeria of those that offer pizza in pieces.
Vehicle enforcement Ford Crown Victoria. This is the new Graphic Scheme which had replaced the old one sometime in 2016-2017. I actually photographed this exact car (3631) in June 2016 and in June 2017. Photos of this car in the older Graphics can be viewed in this album.
Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Special Tactics Squadron and instructors from the Swedish Subarctic Warfare Center train on cross-country skiing basics in Grubbnäsudden, Sweden, Jan. 11, 2022. Fifteen members from the 123rd STS — including combat controllers; pararescuemen; special reconnaissance personnel; search, evasion, resistance and escape troops; and support Airmen — came here to build upon their relationship with European partners during an arctic warfare training course. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Phil Speck)