Riding Kentucky Thunder

When I was growing up, I spent two weeks to a month in early summer on the Kentucky River, before going back to Britain after the school year, and when I came back in the autumn, I again stayed there. Nicholasville, Buena Vista, Lake Herrington, Wilmore, Danville, Camp Nelson…oh, they are still there. Some parts have changed a great deal in the passing years.
This year is the setting for my novel Riding the Thunder.

Nicholasville used to be a very small town 20 miles from Lexington. Urban sprawl now sees the two towns nearly joined. However, in the 1960s, there was a lot of farm land between the two places. There were drive-ins, skate rinks — and a restaurant called The Windmill. The setting for my book did once exist. There was a real motel, drive-in, restaurant, swim-club, a horse farm, and a small skate rink. The Windmill in Riding the Thunder drew life from those seeds.

With splendour such as this, can you not see why I had to send one of my "sisters" to Kentucky to "ride the thunder"? You will see many of these images in my videos for both books.

Hope you enjoyed the "travel" through my memories and what fashioned my novel.

Riding the Thunder (Remix version) from D Macgillivray on Vimeo.

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Deborah Macgillivray

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