On the road to Tarangire, we saw a party of adolescent Masai boys wearing black robes and bold geometric white face paint, indicating that they had just been circumcised. When we stopped to talk to them, they asked for cash, permitted one photo each, and disdainfully declined ink pens, which, we’d found, were popular elsewhere, and useful as barter for
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I’ve been a longtime fan of Holly Hill Inn and Wallace Station, Kentucky chef Ouita Michel’s two Woodford County restaurants. Until recently, I hadn’t visited Windy Corner, her third restaurant, at the corner of Muir Station and Brian Station Roads in Fayette County. The restaurant, in an old store building, was busy for Sunday dinner. The menu featured a variety
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This weekend, my cousin and I took what we expect was our last horseback ride over the farm that once belonged to our great-grandfather, Brownlow Felker, and after that, to our late grandparents. Our great-grandfather timbered the land, near the confluence of Donaldson Creek and the Tradewater River in Caldwell County, Kentucky, around the turn of the twentieth century. Our
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