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Off the Beaten Path with Sam Dick

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Veteran journalist Sam Dick tells stories about the places and people of the Commonwealth. Have a story idea? Send it to Sam.

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Latest episode

Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

Growing Truffles...in Kentucky 10.05.2024

Sam Dick visited a farmer in Fayette County who grows truffles

One Eastern KY Woman's Mission to Help Recovering Addicts 26.04.2024

Sam Dick travels to Manchester, Kentucky to visit a woman who has made it her mission to help recovering addicts

A Central Kentucky farm is home to sculptures from across the world 12.04.2024

Sam Dick visited a Franklin County farm featuring artistic sculptures from across the globe

Dirty South Pottery: From Side Hustle to Full-Time Business 29.03.2024

Sam Dick visited a Winchester Couple who took a hobby and built it into a thriving art business.

The Fine Gardens of Jon Carloftis 15.03.2024

Sam Dick traveled to Lexington to the special home of award-winning landscape designer Jon Carloftis

Great-grandson of enslaved Kentuckians honors family through farming 23.02.2024

Sam Dick visits a Fayette County farmer who is the great-grandson of enslaved Kentuckians

Lexington's Doctor of Tennis 09.02.2024

Sam Dick traveled to Lexington to meet Dr. Mike Eden whose tennis memorabilia collection is considered one of the best in the world.

One woman's mission to clean up Kentucky 26.01.2024

Sam Dick goes Off the Beaten Path to meet a woman who cleans up Kentucky's trash as she kayaks rivers and lakes

A Central Kentucky Pro Football Family 09.01.2024

Sam Dick visited with a family with a very strong connection to the NFL's Cleveland Browns

Central Kentucky couple create art through the blacksmith craft 15.12.2023

Sam Dick traveled to Lawrenceburg, Ky to meet a couple who are blacksmith artists

What it means to be a Kentucky Song Farmer 22.11.2023

Sam Dick traveled to Lawrenceburg, Kentucky to understand what it's like to be a Song Farmer

For 40 years, Lexington hotel valet, 'Tone', has opened many doors 10.11.2023

Sam Dick travels to Lexington to meet a long-time hotel employee

On Guard: Lexington fencing club produces champions 27.10.2023

Sam Dick travels to Lexington to see the Bluegrass Fencers Club train young fencers

Lexington students get a science lesson from restaurant food scraps 13.10.2023

Sam Dick travels to Lexington to learn how Middle school students learn real-world science from restaurant scraps and their reuse.

79 year-old, Lexington Pickleball player heading to championship tournament 22.09.2023

Sam Dick met up with Larry Roberts of Lexington who just started playing Pickleball one year ago. Roberts is now heading to the national Pickleball championship in Dallas in November.

Finding peace in an Eastern KY monastery 08.09.2023

In the Eastern Kentucky mountains, the Mt. Tabor Benedictines run a monastery that focuses on prayer, work, solitude, and hospitality

Archeologists Work to Preserve Native American Artifacts in Kentucky's Forests 25.08.2023

Sam Dick travels to the Daniel Boone National Forest to see how forest officials are working to preserve Native American artifacts

KY college students learn leadership skills and teamwork through rock climbing 11.08.2023

Sam Dick traveled to Red River Gorge to watch Berea College students learn leadership skills through rock climbing

89-year-old Kentucky man is a water skiing phenom 28.07.2023

Joe Duff shreds the water of Herrington Lake even as he approaches his 90th birthday.

Lexington couple searches for history through Indian artifacts 14.07.2023

Sam Dick traveled to Lexington to meet a couple really focused on collecting Indian artifacts like arrowheads

Central KY family continues the state's beer cheese legacy 23.06.2023

Sam Dick goes Off the Beaten Patch to visit the Bailey family of Winchester. They have made and sold beer cheese for 15 years

Lexington couple offers a message of hope after a clinical trial of 'breakthrough' Alzheimer's drug 02.06.2023

Sam Dick talked with Ron Borkowski whose wife died in 2020 after a battle with Alzheimer's disease

A Kentucky Zoo and the family that runs it 19.05.2023

A Nicholas County family runs the 125-acre Wendt's Wildlife Adventure Zoo. The zoo's latest addition is a baby sloth.

Longtime Lexington crossing guard protects kids and makes a difference 05.05.2023

Virginia Mayes has been a crossing guard helping kids get to school in Lexington safely for 31 years

A 120-year-old KY love scandal is brought to the stage 21.04.2023

The marriage between a Japanese man and a Bourbon County, Kentucky woman stirred up controversy more than a century ago.

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