My Favorite Paducah Life

We featured Paducah Life cover boy Dale Perry on iList Paducah last week, along with a great story about his work with the Good Ole Boys BBQ team. The September/October issue is on newsstands and in mailboxes now and, I have to say, it's my very favorite so far. There's a fun photo feature on great items from iList Paducah sponosr Sweet Bella Grace, a nice story on Martin Fierro (another iList Paducah sponsor), a cute Shopping Your Closet story by iList Paducah contributor and style and PR expert Laura K. and a nice overview of the Carson Center and the McCracken County Library's project, The Big Read, which we'll also be featuring on iList Paducah in the next week or so. And then there's THIS little piece that I'm awful fond of... ...a story I wrote on Evan Bright, the young fella that I've mentioned quite a bit here since the first day of that icky Steven Green trial earlier this year. Bruce and I happened to be at Kirchhoff's for lunch the day the trial opened. Evan's grandmom Jane and his aunt Julie were there as well, and had been at the trial that morning. They were all-a-glow over the fact that Evan was live blogging and Twittering it. That rang a bell with me because I'd received a notice that Steven Green — well, I thought it was Steven Green — had begun following me on Twitter a few days before. That, of course, creeped me out BIG TIME. But as we were talking with Jane and Julie, I realized that the Twitterer was actually cute Evan, thank you Jesus, and not icky Steven. So with that, Evan and I connected, and I watched in awe as he posted Tweets each day and blogged each night, providing the most thorough trial coverage of any reporter in the press pool. We've got the piece on iList Paducah this week (along with links to the Twitter and blog Evan maintained during the trial), so please have a look. As you can tell, I'm a big fan. I'm awfully fond of his parents, Paula and Steve, as well. They are, no doubt, very proud of young Evan Bright.

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