With a 5-2 win over Stephen F. Austin University on Tuesday, the #1 seed Kennesaw State Owls won the National Club Baseball Association World Series at Brooks Stadium in Paducah, Kentucky.

At the National Quilting Museum, there's a strict rule about not touching the quilts and fabric art hanging throughout the 27,000 square feet of exhibit space. But wanting to reach out and feel what's on display is an understandable temptation for many of the 40,000 annual visitors who can't believe what they're seeing.

Kentucky Life, hosted by Dave Shuffett, features an evening of live performances at the Maiden Alley Cinema in Paducah, the town of Salyersville, a girl who created a knitting project for residents of Joplin, Missouri, and the vineyards of CCC Trail Winery in Morehead.

In keeping with a statewide trend, the annual survey of tourism spending in Kentucky shows an increase in Paducah-McCracken County in 2012. All nine of the state’s tourism regions registered gains for 2012 compared with 2011.

Batman has Robin. Quilt Man has Bobbin. Then again, maybe more accurately, Quilt Man has Paducah, Kentucky.