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  • Rolling back the decades
    The interior of the vintage Pullman car looks as if it came straight from a 1940s film heavily paneled walls, scarlet drapes swagged over the windows and a dining table that easily seats 12. Unlike a train parked on a movie back lot, this elegant car, owned by R.J. Corman Railroad Group, is fully operational. One recent morning, the old train car, pulled by a bright red locomotive, glided out of Corman's rail yard in downtown Lexington with a party of employees aboard, laughing and chatting. This was the maiden trip for the Pullman after its top-to-bottom renovation. Destination: Bagdad, 53 track miles away in Shelby County. The Pullman will serve as owner Rick Corman's personal car, where he can wine, dine and woo railroad clients. Today, though, guests include the nine Corman employees who refurbished the car, working on it part-time for a year.
  • Holly is a gift that gives all year round
    It's an evergreen of the Christmas season, and it's one we can grow in our yards all year. Today, we are decking the halls with boughs of holly. Of all the evergreens, holly, or Ilex x meserveae , has to be one of my favorites. Flowers, berries and glossy evergreen foliage offer many uses when cut, and they add texture to the landscape when simply grown outside a window. In all the years I've grown holly, and I have more than 15 bushes, the deer have gnawed on its prickly leaves only once. This family of Ilex is a unique group of shrubs in the plant world because it's what is termed dioecious, meaning that it can't self-pollinate. The male flowers (staminate) are present on one plant, female (pistillate) on another. Without at least one of each, you won't see those beautiful red berries.
  • Holiday tour offers peek inside castle
    CastlePost, the iconic castle-turned-hotel at the Fayette-Woodford county line, will be open for holiday tours Sunday, Monday and Tuesday to benefit the Lexington Salvation Army. After 30 years of being closed, a devastating fire in 2004 and five years of off-and-on construction, the castle, at 230 Pisgah Station Road, opened last year to hotel guests and charity fund-raisers. It is owned by Thomas R. Post. For the tours, CastlePost will be decorated for Christmas by Central Kentucky designers. Tour will run hourly from 1 to 7 p.m. Sunday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday. Tickets are $40 for adults and $20 for children younger than 12, and are available at the Whitaker Bank branch at 2001 Pleasant Ridge Drive, in Hamburg, until 1 p.m. Saturday. They also will be available on site, but the number is limited. For more information, call (859) 252-7706.
  • Shaking up roofing choices
    VERSAILLES Pull up to the secluded house in rural Woodford County, and one of the first things you notice is the cedar shake roof. But take another look. It turns out that no cedar trees were harmed to protect this house from the elements. The roof is made of aluminum. It's one of several new roof styles that are becoming available to environmentally conscious homeowners. Others include white roofs, which reflect heat, and "green" roofs, which feature real dirt and plants. This roof, which was just finished, is on a 14-year-old house bought in July by John-Mark Hack and his wife, the Rev. Carol Devine, pastor at a Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Harrison County.
  • Home tour will raise money for Philharmonic Guild
    The Lexington Philharmonic Guild is counting on voyeurism getting an inside look at how other people live to make its first holiday homes tour a smashing success. On Sunday, eight houses on Richmond Road, plus one around the corner on Holiday Road, will be decorated for Christmas and open for touring. This neighborhood was picked because "Richmond Road is so well traveled and so familiar to people in Lexington and people who come in from Eastern Kentucky," said Carolyn Rasnick, co-chairwoman of the tour with Janette Heitz. "They have passed these houses hundreds of times, admired the exteriors and would like to see the interiors," Rasnick said. One is Joe and Margaret Jones' house at 1640 Richmond Road, designed in California Regency style by the late Lexington architect James Frankel.
  • Governor's Garden makes fresh food accessible
    FRANKFORT The number of people turning to Access Soup Kitchen and Men's Shelter has climbed this year as the economy has plummeted. Fortunately, the nearly 20-year-old non-profit has been able to count on some "green" help to feed the roughly 60 people who depend on Access for meals every day. Since May, Access has received 375 pounds of fresh produce harvested from the Governor's Garden, an innovative partnership among the state, Western Hills High School, Kentucky Proud, Frankfort-area garden clubs and Access. Started by first lady Jane Beshear, an avid gardener, the garden is part of Gov. Steve Beshear's Green Team Initiative, which encourages sustainable and environmentally friendly practices. The garden is on the grounds of Berry Mansion, a state-owned property just minutes from the soup kitchen on Second Street.
  • Take a bough: a list of area Christmas tree farms
    Traditionally, the weekend after Thanksgiving is prime time for hunting down and setting up the family Christmas tree. Visitors to area tree farms have several options. Choose and cut your own (saws are usually provided), pick from trees already cut, or take home a balled and burlapped variety to plant in your yard after the holidays. Also, many farms offer wreaths, swags and refreshments. Here is a list of Christmas tree farms in the area. For more information about other area Christmas tree farms, go to www.kychristmastreefarms.com. Clark County Kovalic Christmas Tree Farm, 487 Ecton Road, Winchester. Choose-and-cut white and Scotch pine, Canaan fir and Norway spruce. Saws provided. Live (replantable) white and red pine; concolor and Canaan fir; Norway, white and blue spruce. Prices start at $25. Wreaths, roping and swags available. 11 a.m.-dark Mon.-Sat., 1 p.m.-dark Sun. Through Dec. 23. Restrooms available. From Lexington on Interstate 64, take Exit 96, turn right onto Ky. 627. At first stoplight, turn left on Veterans Memorial Parkway (Ky. 1958), go 1 mile to Ky. 1960 or Ecton Road; turn right, go mile to farm on left. (859) 744-2930.
  • Prepare for the holidays: create evergreen d.cor
    It's time to deck the halls with holly, spruce, ivy and evergreen boughs. Whether you're looking to make a wreath, a table centerpiece, a topiary form or ornaments, many classes are being offered that can help you put together traditional seasonal d cor using fresh evergreens, herbs and plant materials. Here are some ideas to explore: Botanica, 6327 Old Richmond Road, is holding a Christmas market and bazaar from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Fresh greenery in the form of wreaths, centerpieces and garlands, crafts and Kentucky Proud products will be offered as home decorating and gift ideas. Call (859) 806-9424 or go to www.herbsformums.com. Yew Dell Gardens, 6220 Old LaGrange Road, Crestwood, is offering wreath-making and topiary-making workshops Dec. 5 with Jules Klein and garden manager Jo Anne Fischer, using greenery from the grounds. Wreath workshops are 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 4 p.m; topiary workshops are noon to 2 p.m. The cost is $30 for members and $35 for non-members. Registration is required by Thursday. The gardens, originally the home, display gardens and landscaping business of noted plantsman Theodore Klein, are just east of Louisville. In addition to greenery classes, you can pick up ideas on new plants that grow well in Central Kentucky and tour the gardens. Call (502) 241-4788 or go to www.yewdellgardens.org.
  • Ungrateful teen at home? That can change
    NEW YORK Is there an ungrateful teenager living in your house? Lisa Butler feels your pain. She started a Facebook group called UTIMH (Ungrateful Teenager In My House). "Here's my Christmas list," is how Butler describes the typical teenager's response to the approach of the holidays. "They have such a sense of entitlement," said Butler, a social worker who lives in Hartford, Conn., with her 16-year-old son. "They look at you as if you owe them." Her group doesn't have a lot of members yet, but the few dozen who have joined make heartfelt comments about kids who won't help around the house, daughters who demand designer boots and sons who turn up their noses at delicious homemade meals.
  • The holidays and history meet for designer showcase
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