Merry Christmas

What do the hallowed hills of Kentucky have to do with Christmas?  One story I know is about the John B. Stephenson Nature Preserve in Rockcastle County.  I met a woman there in the valley.  I asked her about how she felt about this Kentucky place.  She said that she went to school there and she motioned to the ridge to the left of where we were standing.  She said that as a girl she came down into the woods to gather vines and branches to make decorations for Christmas.   That was many years ago. And the precious Kentucky woods are still there.   No work has marred the beauty of the woods.   So most every Kentucky place has many stories.  May it ever be so.