6/15/22; Cynthiana, KY; Denny Lipscombe in his home in Cynthiana, KY on Wednesday June 15, 2022. Eight years ago lipscombe created the Facebook group “Take me home, Cynthiana” to share historical documentation of Harrison County. Lipscombe wanted “no politics, no nonsense, no gossip” and only historical narratives of families and their ancestors in the area. What started out as a hobby of driving the roads of Harrison County to photograph the old homes and recording their history turned into photographing tombstones and forgotten cemeteries of the county. Ten years into the endeavor, some 275,000 files and 13,000 photos later, Lipscombe has visited 165 of the 250 cemeteries scattered across the county. Lipscombe’s family on his mother’s side have been in Harrison County for the past six generations. Many old cemerteries in the county are located on private land making access and care to the graves difficult. Some landowners buying tracts of land plow over these cemeteries, “when is it ever okay? In my eyes it’s never okay,” Lipscombe said. “I get emotionally involved seeing people in cemeteries, I sit and listen to what they have to say there.” Lipscombe pulls up photos from his eight terabyte harddrive of tombstone photos and cycles through them, “who we are is based on them, not George Washington, but common everyday people,” stopping on a grave marker from a cemetery he’s visited. Lipscombe is an untrained historian, no history degrees or certifications. After wrestling with his own alcohol addiction early in life Lipscombe went through an addiction program and spent the next 25 years of his life working as a substance abuse treatment counselor with both National and State certifications. Photograph by Jesse Barber