My Home: Endangered

So, no, it's not exactly celebrity news, but maybe if all the famous Kentuckians: Diane Sawyer, Ashley Judd, Johnny Depp, George Clooney, Tom Cruise (for a few years), etc...banded together and bought up a couple of farms, we could save a few more acres of the motherland... Seriously, it kills me to see Kentucky's farmland torn down to build yet another McMansion or Wal-Mart SuperCenter.

Yesterday, the World Monuments Fund declared more than 1 million acres of the Bluegrass one of the 100 most endangered cultural sites in the world.

"The inner Bluegrass Region of Kentucky is one of the world's most distinctive cultural and agricultural landscapes," according to the announcement. "Over the past decade, however, the Bluegrass Region has been threatened by rapid development, primarily suburbanization .... The result is substantial loss of rural farmland, compromising sense of place, undermining traditional industries such as horse breeding, and endangering historic structures."

The designation puts 17 Bluegrass counties alongside such famous monuments as the Taj Mahal in India, the temples of Angkor in Cambodia, and the Great Wall of China -- all previous designees by the fund.