Cave City, Kentucky

We spent a warm March weekend visiting Shawn’s parents at their home in Cave City, Kentucky and getting our first glimpse of the 1970′s houseboat they recently purchased and now keep at the Dale Hollow State Park Marina.

I left the 27th section of Song of the Open Road in a sweet little antique store in Cave City, the name of which eludes me now. We spent the good part of a day roaming around the town’s many antique stores, perusing blue Ball jars, old Coke crates and various sundry antiques. I loved these shelves of colorful dishes, so I thought it was appropriate to leave the poem tucked among them.

"(Such a deed seizes upon the hearts of the whole race of men, its effusion of strength and will overwhelms law and mocks all authority and all argument against it.)"