Did you know Aurora, Kentucky, the little tourist community on Kentucky Lake, almost became the county seat of Henrietta County? What?...
Read MoreFeatures that don’t quite fit anywhere else on our site, but definitely deserve recognition is what Terts & Quats is all about. The phrase derives from tertiary features (Terts) and fourth-importance (quaternary or “Quats”) articles found in publications. Here, it’s just “everything else” and is just as good as the other stuff on Four Rivers Explorer!
The Railroad Changed Murray & Calloway County
While writing this feature I channeled my inner Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory), who had a love for trains on...
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Kentucky Lake’s ‘Party Cove’ – The Creation of the Rock Quarry
A favorite among boaters on Kentucky Lake, the Rock Quarry, is also known as the “Party Cove”. Recently we had the...
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Does Elsewhere, Kentucky Exist?
In 2015, Seamus Coffey, a Calloway County, Kentucky resident wrote a sensational horror story on Reddit and on ThoughtCatalog.com about a...
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Soldier Creek B-29 Bomber Crash Memorial
A B-29 “Superfortress” bomber crashed on July 1, 1945 in southwest Marshall County, Kentucky near the Brewers community. One of the...
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Cave-in-Rock Ferry
The Cave-in-Rock Ferry was a bonus when visiting Cave-in-Rock, Illinois recently. The ferry, which doesn’t cost anything to ride, is the...
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