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As America grows our country’s farm land slowly shrinks.  This week, on Kentucky’s Backroads, we meet a woman who has taken diversification of the family farm to a whole new level.  There are no crops on her late grandparents’ farm, but plenty of sculptures.
 
Melanie VanHouten uses her self described “weird, quirky, artsy” personality to oversee Josephine Sculpture Park on the Franklin County farm where she and her husband now live.  It’s free and open to the public dawn to dusk.  It is named after her grandmother who inspired her to chase her artistic dreams.
 
VanHouten says making art more accessible is one of her goals.  “To take it out of the museum or the gallery that is sort of foreboding and sort of stiff,” she explained.

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It was not long after the first colonies were formed and before statehood that Tates Creek Baptist Church organized in Madison County.  This month the church is marking its 225th anniversary.  The rich history of the church, at one time the largest in Kentucky during pioneer days, is the focus of this week’s Kentucky’s Backroads.
 
The current sanctuary was built in 1850 after the original church, located a few miles a way, burned.  The founding pastor was Andrew Tribble, who is buried in a family cemetery not far from the current church.   "He (Tribble) just felt the need to have a church here in the frontier and a congregation was gathered,” current pastor Jerry Huffman explained.
 

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This week we bring you a “Best of Kentucky’s Backroads” which was first aired nine years ago.  It reairs on the 200 year anniversary of a sad moment in Kentucky history, the Cherokee Massacre at the highest water fall in Kentucky.

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