Three Forks Preservation Group LLC

09/26/2025

Painted plywood looks so much better when you have to board them up.

09/26/2025

09/25/2025

Where Other People See Blight & Want To Demolish Streets Like This…I See The Opportunity To Create A Close Knit Community Of Historic Shotgun Houses…While Affordably Fulfilling The Dream Of Home Ownership, Rocky Mount, NC.

📸 Preservation Nation - Dustin Van Fleet

09/25/2025

"I always tried to keep my professional walls up, but there was one case that I just struggled to deal with. There was one guy—young, maybe twenty—and he’d lost both his legs and arms. One arm was amputated above the elbow; one arm was below the elbow.

Taking off arms bothered me a lot more than taking off legs because legs I knew could be replaced, but arms you couldn’t. Back in the seventies, there was no decent replacement for the complexity of a human hand. So that always bothered me more. I decided I would go over and talk with him afterward.

I think he was in the ICU, and he had a contraption that hung down from the bed frame we called a trapeze so that he could move himself in bed. He could hook his one arm, which still had an elbow around it, to move himself, to at least give him a drop of control.

When I walked over to his bed, he was asleep, but something caught my eye. Taped onto that trapeze facing him was a picture of his brand-new baby. The baby was probably about three months old.
I just thank God he was asleep because I just started crying. I knew he would never be able to touch that child with his own hands. That probably was one of the most…I mean, it just tore my heart out to see that, to think he was going home to this beautiful baby. But it was too much for me." — Laura Hines Kern

Excerpt from the book, "Women in War." Now just released Audiobook read by The Women narrator Julia Whelan!

To learn more about our brave women warriors please check out the Book: Women In War: A Gripping Collection of the Untold True Stories of History's Bravest Women Warriors.

Amazon link to the book: https://a.co/d/e9z3dwB

09/25/2025

This window sash was in rough shape. It was taken apart to have each piece restored before it is reassembled.

09/20/2025

This image is of community life in Pikeville, Kentucky, shown in front of the Pike County Courthouse. Circa 1890s. Submitted by Von Hanshaw.

09/20/2025

DYK we are entirely FREE to visit? That's right! Visit us Wednesday through Saturday from 9 am to 4 pm. For directions + parking, visit: https://www.wku.edu/kentuckymuseum/directions_parking.php

The Kentucky Museum is free thanks to continued donations from our members. To support free admission, please consider becoming a Member or making a gift to our Annual Fund. Learn more here: https://www.wku.edu/kentuckymuseum/donate.php

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09/20/2025

09/20/2025

Another dutchman repair to this window sash! And epoxy repairs!