It happened in Kentucky a while back.
Perhaps 13 years. The name of the small town in which we stopped escapes me completely, but that does not matter in the story.
I was on a three-day, three-town speaking tour with Kentucky’s first female governor, Martha Layne Collins.
Corporate executives were driving us from Owensboro to Lexington. We sat in the back seat, and I listened, enthralled, as she poin…