Mammoth Cave News

Veterans' Day, the holiday on which we honor those who've sacrificed so much for us--unless we choose to sacrifice the holiday itself in exchange for getting off the day after Thanksgiving.

Glasgow Musicale will present American Railroad Music Glasgow Musicale, will present a special concert, American Railroad Music on Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 2:00pmCT, at First Presbyterian Church, 200 East Washington Street, Glasgow, KY.

Guide John Davis kneels by the gravestone of his great-great grandparents at the Mammoth Cave Baptist Church Cemetery Date: November 3, 2009 Contact: Vickie Carson , 270.758.2192 Roots in the Cave, November 13-15, is a weekend for family research regarding the people who lived in what is now Mammoth Cave National Park.

Crews have been surveying cemeteries in Mammoth Cave National Park to make permanent records of the graves for the park's cemetery database.

Mammoth Cave, the largest underground formation known to man and one of the world's great natural wonders, is less than a 100-mile drive from Louisville.

Isa Bade is a 13-year-old eighth-grader at Mirabal School in Madrid, Spain. Cassie Taylor is a 12-year-old seventh-grader at St.

Turns out, those foam take-away containers that really make your green heart cringe can actually be recycled into baseboards and moldings for your home.

Kentucky has it's first drop off point for recycling foam. Dart Container Corp.'s facility in Horse Cave is accepting foam products and shipping them off for reuse.

Glasgow police served indictment warrants on three Barren County residents and arrested two Glasgow women for suspected methamphetamine use in separate incidents Monday.

THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA. 8 tonight through Friday, Channel 12. LET ME just say I'm a sucker for national parks.

These senior citizens really know how to travel; Dick Rozell, Shirley and Dick Golightly, Terry and Peg Reeser, Cliff and Marilyn Harter, Dave and Monica Curl and Jim and Dee Cathcart, experience the countryside from the seat of a dune buggy.

The Barren River District Health Department has issued an immediate closure notice for all retail markets, food service establishments, institutional kitchens and other facilities engaged in the preparation and service of food to the public, that are served by the Green River Valley Water District in Barren, Edmonson, Hart and Metcalfe counties.

The Miss Tennky Area AFS Volunteer Leadership Team's entire thiry-eight 2009-2010 roster attended post-arrival orientation at Mammoth Cave, KY, September 12th and 13th.

By GINA KINSLOW A preview of a documentary about Mammoth Cave National Park will be shown Thursday at the Mary Wood Weldon Memorial Library.

Because of its unusual geological characteristics, the cave has been a backdrop for downright odd aspects of human endeavors.

Fall might not be officially here, but the pleasant weather we've experienced is sending a healthy message: Go take a hike.

Mammoth Cave is getting some help in the fight against exotic plant life. Park officials have teamed up with an exotic plant management team from North Carolina to rid the park of invasive plant life, including kudzu, tree of heaven and Johnson grass.

The sister park signing ceremony in Beijing included all four park managers: Director Zhou of Wulong NP; Director LuXing hua of Libo Zhangjiang NP; Superintendent Patrick Reed of Mammoth Cave NP; and Director Li Zhengping of Shilin Stone Forest NP.

A park guide poses for a photo along a trail in the Stone Forest. The limestone pinnacles are above-ground karst landforms.

Tom Chaney No. 220, 30 Aug. 2009: Biscuits Tom Chaney essay on the very serious matter of biscuits, the food we Christians will surely dine on in heaven, he says, and touching on matters Mammoth Cave, Green County, KY; the Sextons' preserves, and what a proper biscuit cutter is.