Secret NKY: How a museum dedicated to dummies landed in Northern Kentucky
By Kathy Witt
NKyTribune columnist
What a bunch of dummies. Eleven hundred, to be exact—and they’re all living their best life in a quiet neighborhood off Dixie Highway in Fort Mitchell.
Vent Haven, the world’s only museum dedicated to ventriloquism, re-opened in mid-May after a massive two-year renovation that included a brand-new building that fits into the character of its residential location....
Secret NKY: Among 7 life-size bronze statues on Riverside Drive is Mary Becker Green, a river legend
By Kathy Witt
Special to NKyTribune
Among the seven life-size bronze statues on the self-guided Riverside Drive Statue Tour in Covington’s Riverside Drive Historic District is one recalling a woman who figures famously into river history: Mary Becker Greene.
The daughter of a shopkeeper, Mary was born in 1868 just north of Marietta, Ohio, on the Muskingum River. In 1890, Mary married riverboat captain...
Secret NKY: Ludlow home to one of Kentucky’s most original distilleries in Second Sight Spirits
By Kathy Witt
Special to NKyTribune
In a state awash in bourbon — with close to 100 distilleries scattered across the Kentucky landscape, countless trails dedicated to its appreciation and enough barrels of bourbon aging in rick houses to supply every Kentuckian with more than two barrels apiece—differentiating oneself may seem like the impossible dream.
Second Sight Spirits’ founders Rick...
Secret NKY: Around the Corner Fabrics shop stitches its history into iconic theatre in Latonia
By Kathy Witt
Special to NKyTribune
Bolts of colorful cotton line the walls of a building where black and white movies were once shown more than eight decades ago.
The Kentucky Theatre is described as a “Two-story movie theater with altered first floor extending across street-level with deeply recessed entrance. The upper facade, which now appears set back, is of tawny brick with pairs of modest...
Secret NKY: Haven Gillespie and his million dollar Christmas song, ‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town’
By Kathy Witt
NKyTribune columnist
If you’ve been to Goebel Park in Mainstrasse, the Behringer-Crawford Museum in Devou Park, or on a twisty little road also located within Devou Park, you’ve seen the name of the lyricist behind one of the most famous Christmas songs ever written: James “Haven” Gillespie.
Songwriter Haven Gillespie Lived in Covington off and on until he moved to Hollywood in...
SecretNKy: American West painter Henry Farny remembered with Covington park
By Kathy Witt
Special to NKyTribune
There’s a little piece of the American West in a pocket park in Covington’s Old Seminary Square neighborhood. Located at the corner of Banklick and Robbins, the Henry Farny Park recalls the artist and illustrator born in 1847 who lived and worked for a time in Covington and Cincinnati.
Farny became famous for his paintings that captured scenes of the life and...
NKY-based Fisher Group names Andrew Worrell General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Andrew Worrell has assumed the position of General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for NKY-based Fischer Group, the nation’s 15th largest privately-held home builder, as of January 2023.
Worrell will replace Paul Allen, who has served as General Counsel since 2017. To ensure a seamless transition, Allen will continue with Fischer Homes through January 2024 as General Counsel Emeritus and Assistant...
Spooky Secrets Tour: Take a walk through close encounters with some of NKY’s spookiest secrets
Created for fans of Halloween and all things bizarre, a new walking tour offers a close encounter with some of the spookiest secrets in Northern Kentucky.
Inspired by the recent book, Secret Cincinnati, the guided tour was created by the book’s author, Kathy Witt, and Jill Morenz, who leads the NKY Public Arts Network.
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Proceeds from the tour will support public art...
Edelen files to run for Democrat governor’s nomination; NKY’s Knipper files for Secretary of State
Kentucky Today
Pledging to run a different kind of campaign, former State Auditor Adam Edelen filed his papers with the Secretary of State’s office on Monday for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in the May primary.
Speaking to reporters after his filing, Edelen said he and running mate Gill Holland, a Louisville businessman and filmmaker, want to give every Kentuckian, no matter where they...
NKY Building Industry Association’s Miller elected secretary into NAHB Executive Officers Council
Brian Miller, Executive Vice President of the Building Industry Association of Northern Kentucky, will be installed at the International Builders Show in Las Vegas in February 2019 as Secretary into the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Executive Officers Council (EOC).
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The EOC is a professional organization open to executives who manage over 700 local and state builders associations...
Mubea North America graduates NKY apprenticeship class, Labor Secretary Ramsey is keynote
By Mark Hansel
NKyTibune managing editor
Mubea North America graduated its third class of apprentices in an event at the Metropolitan Club in Covington Monday evening. Just as with the first two classes, Kentucky Labor Secretary Derrick Ramsey was on hand to congratulate them.
Kentucky Labor Secretary Derrick Ramsey (right) and Ervin Dimeny, commissioner of the State Department of Workplace Standards...
NKY Chamber to host Government Forum with Justice & Public Safety Secretary John Tilley
The Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce will host a Government Forum event with John Tilley, Secretary of the Kentucky Justice & Public Safety Cabinet.
The Northern Kentucky Chamber Government Forum series is presented by Fidelity & Duke Energy.
Secretary Tilley’s appearance in Northern Kentucky will be held at The Hilton Cincinnati Airport (7373 Turfway Rd, Florence), from 11:30 a.m.-1...
Our Rich History: Frisch’s Big Boy plays major role in history of fast-food restaurants in NKY — and beyond
By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD
Special to the NKyTribune
(First of an occasional series about NKY’s fast-food restaurants)
When I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, our family ate at restaurants only very occasionally. Like many suburban middle-class mothers during those years, my mom (Mary, or Margie as she preferred) grew up poor during the Great Depression. In addition, women of that time period...
The River: Recycling makes the junkyard respectable and biz was good, but call of water was stronger
The riverboat captain is a storyteller, and Captain Don Sanders will be sharing the stories of his long association with the river — from discovery to a way of love and life. This a part of a long and continuing story. This story first appeared in April, 2021.
By Captain Don Sanders
Special to NKyTribune
Thankfully, I have two trades that always provided a reasonable living: steamboatin’ and junkin’....
For Spring break meetNKY says ‘meet Northern Kentucky’ close to home, see region as visitors do
If you are looking for something to do for spring break — with or without kids — meetNKY, the region’s Visitors and Convention Bureau, has some ideas for you. They are varied and interesting and rich and exciting — and are right here at home.
So experience your home in the same way that thousands of travelers — discover “local” and enjoy your own backyard....
