Balloon lifts students’ lofty aspirations
July 14, 2008
A group of college students from across Kentucky launched Space Balloon-1 from Bowling Green on Monday. The craft, mostly student designed, built and programmed by students, floated into the stratosphere with panoramic cameras and student experiments such as space navigation controls and a beacon to transmit live videofeed. Reaching a final altitude of 91,277 feet, above 99 percent of the atmosphere, the balloon’s cameras were able to capture the curvature of the Earth and the blackness of space, similar to the view from space shuttles. Photos by Daniel Houghton
July 6 - 12, 2008 Week in Pictures
July 13, 2008
This Week in Pictures includes the Junior League Horse Show, a family festival at Ashland, the Bluegrass Fair coming to town, the funeral for civil-rights activist Louis Coleman, a ceremony for a fallen soldier, and Adam Bender and other children finding ways to have fun.
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Snakes Alive! Operation Twice Shy
July 11, 2008
Ten people have been arrested and another one cited by state conservations officers after a nearly two-year undercover investigation of the illegal possession, importation and buying and selling of venomous snakes and other reptiles. FULL STORY
Keeping in key to the step
July 10, 2008
Gene Wright, the official organist for the Jr. League Horse show, plays the organ while riders and their mounts compete at the Red Mile in Lexington, Ky. His choice of songs is not always just out of the blue. Each event has a certain tempo, and therefore a certain pace of music. Audio slideshow by David Stephenson and Brad Luttrell | Staff
Bluegrass gospel musical from Lexington Stage
July 10, 2008
Lexington Stage Company and Studio Players present Smoke on the Mountain, a Bluegrass gospel musical by Alan Bailey and Connie Ray. The audience serves as the congregation for 1930s Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, a rural North Carolina house of worship where Rev. Mervin Oglethorpe has invited the Sanders Family Singers for a Saturday night sing along. A few conflicts arise as Rev. Oglethorpe tries to introduce his traditional congregation to modern worship styles, but the overall point is to hear classic hymns like I’ll Fly Away and Nothing but the Blood of Jesus. The show plays July 10-27 at the Carriage House Theatre on Bell Court. Photos, audio and productions by Rich Copley | Staff
