From Red Hot to Monkey's Eyebrow by Robert M. Rennick

Author:Robert M. Rennick [Rennick, Robert M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Folklore & Mythology, Travel, United States, General
ISBN: 9780813146140
Google: 9htGAgAAQBAJ
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Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1997-07-24T00:00:00+00:00

Kentucky historian Thomas D. Clark was told by local people that the creek was named for a troublesome woman, the first woman to settle on its banks. According to the old tale, she “was unfaithful to her husband so he traded her off to her lover, and she in turn became the paramour of her first husband.”

Blue Hole

There’s a place up Collins Fork (of Goose Creek) in Clay County called Blue Hole. It was named for a nearby pool of very clear water that early settlers said “always looked so blue.” It was also the deepest pool of water that anyone had ever seen. Attempts to determine its precise depth were unsuccessful. You could row out to the middle of the pool and drop a stone and never hear it hit the bottom. You could tie a number of long ropes together and weight the furthest end and drop it in and it would never hit the bottom. In recent years, an eighteen wheeler slid off the road and plunged into the pool—it and its cargo were never found. Children and adults alike were warned about getting too close to the edge of the pool or they too would fall in and be lost forever. My Clay County friends have assured me these were just stories, but there could be some truth to them. That pool is plenty deep.

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