Estill County

Absolutely.

And then one uniquely, amazingly, awesomely in Estill County, organized by the High School Kentucky Youth Assembly Club.

Now, my daughter is in middle school and she was just elected co-president of her middle school KYA club.

So we are...

Pretty thrilled that this was organized by high school kids.

It was in Estill County, reminding us all the six district stretches well beyond Lexington.

Getting both candidates out there, plus Charles Booker attended.

So I think the TV coverage cut off after that title card, but having that as the second debate out in Estill County, kudos.

We've talked about it.

They're having a debate in Estill County.

Normally, no one would care, but I think this is kind of cool.

They're doing it at the Estill County High School, and the moderator is a junior in high school.

They're bringing a junior in.

That's cool, I think.

Bringing a junior in high school is doing the moderator, and they're taking questions only from kids.

that are in the audience.

Murray also took percussion.

Then we go to Estill County for Madison Central, over Henry Clay, over Garrard County, over Bourbon County,

and

then over Tate's Creek.

Democrat Zach Dimbo and Republican Ralph Alvarado have now agreed to a debate next Thursday evening at WDKY.

They're both also expected at a candidate forum in Estill County.

This campaign has seen a lot of, as Laura was describing it, TV and digital ads and political signs sprouting up like daisies out there.

Now they have finally agreed to appear together.

Most years, when he goes out to look, there are also four grooves across one corner, side by side.

Leander has tuned pianos for a living since nineteen seventy-nine, and in the summer of nineteen ninety-four, he was living by himself in a farmhouse up a hollow in Estill County, Kentucky, with a porch that ran across the front of the house and down the east side.

A tuner ends up with other people's dead pianos because folks will pay him to haul one off, and that June, a Methodist church had paid him to take away an upright built in nineteen twelve that had spent a winter under a leaking roof.

He meant to part it out.

Um, I, you know, I've had a weird, really kind of weird life of coincidences.

Um, after I graduated from college, I went to teach school at Estill County, where the mountains kiss the bluegrass.

Uh, taught vocational agriculture there.

And then, uh, I got a job up in Rochester, Minnesota, home of the world-famous Mayo Clinic, working for an outfit called Babcock Swan.

She is the executive chef at North of Bourbon.

From growing up in Estill County learning kitchen thrift from her grandfather, to running one of the hottest kitchens in the region, we are talking about female leadership in a male-dominated kitchen culture.

We're talking about Appalachian soul.

And yes, we're gonna talk about pickled collard greens that are gonna blow your mind.

Yeah.

I mean, I think your rise not only in that kitchen, but your rise in the culinary world is something that I can't wait to get into.

But take us back to Estill County.

Where is Estill County in Kentucky?

She is the executive chef at North of Bourbon.

From growing up in Estill County learning kitchen thrift from her grandfather, to running one of the hottest kitchens in the region, we are talking about female leadership in a male-dominated kitchen culture.

We're talking about Appalachian soul.

And yes, we're gonna talk about pickled collard greens that are gonna blow your mind.

Yeah.

I mean, I think your rise not only in that kitchen, but your rise in the culinary world is something that I can't wait to get into.

But take us back to Estill County.

Where is Estill County in Kentucky?