Real Kentucky Living

This isn’t the cleaned-up version. This is the family trying to hold on. The land waiting to be healed. And the stories nobody prints in a magazine.

"We sold Papaw’s old tools just to pay the property tax. We kept the hammer. That’s the one that built the porch."

"We’re staying in the camper behind my cousin’s house. They shut our water off. But the kids are warm and dry, and that’s what matters right now."

"They said 'become a foster parent' but we’ve got three families under one roof already. Who’s fostering the ones trying to stay afloat?"

"The property’s falling in. But it's ours. We’ll fix what we can, and plant tomatoes where the porch used to be."

Do you have a story to tell? A home that needs help? A piece of land that’s holding on?