What makes western Kentucky so unique? Sometimes it seems as if the
history of this distinctive region lies buried deep within its
awe-inspiring cave systems.
Join western Kentucky historian Berry Craig as he penetrates the depths
of the region's lesser-known history and brings to light the people,
places and events that have shaped Kentucky's west. People like Fate
Marable, the Paducah-born jazz innovator whose roving Kentucky Jazz Band
featured a young Louis Armstrong. Places like Wheel, the tiny town in
Graves County that gave birth to a vice president. And forgotten feuds
like the 1900 Christmas Eve shootout in Mayfield that left a deputy
dead. These stories, and many others, ensure that western Kentucky's
hidden history will no longer linger in the shadows.