Outdoor activities balance life

By GINA KINSLOW
For the Daily Times

MAMMOTH CAVE July 07, 2008 03:36 pm

— Allen Jaggers has been working at Mammoth Cave National Park for the past three seasons.
Jaggers, of Edmonson County, works in the park’s maintenance department and says it’s a job he loves.
“You meet a lot of different people,” he said.
Some of his duties include emptying trash cans, changing light bulbs, changing air-conditioning filters and cleaning the bathrooms at the park’s Visitors’ Center.
When he’s not at work, Jaggers said he likes to fish.
“I try to go once a week during the summertime,” he said.
His favorite fishing spot is Lake Nolin.
When he goes fishing, he usually fishes for catfish, blue gill and crappie.
Jaggers once caught a 20-pound catfish. Rather than having the big fish mounted so he could hang it on a wall in his home, he put it in the freezer.
Jaggers also enjoys hunting.
“I hunt rabbit and quail,” he said.
He’s also a “shade tree mechanic,” working on cars as a hobby.
Jaggers attends Cave Hollow United Baptist Church in Edmonson County.
He has one stepdaughter, Tara Michelle Lindsey, who is 23.
Jaggers’ plan for the future, he said, is just “surviving.”

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