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April Fool’s Day is a day of practical jokes, and the Historic State Theater plans on offering the last laugh.

“You should be working on April Fool’s Day if you are a comedian,” Louisville comedian Bob Batch said.

Batch will headline at Comedy Caravan at The Historic State Theater at 8 p.m. Friday in a show that includes two other comedians: Tim McClendon and Brad Lanning. McClendon will serve as the master of ceremonies.

Classical guitarist Kevin Shank and three guests will be in concert Sunday at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College.

Shank retired from U.S. Army Bands and has a classical guitar performance degree from the University of Louisville. The Army Band gave Shank the opportunity to play for President George H.W. Bush, Colin Powell and Ambassador Shirley Temple Black. He is an instructor at ECTC.

His guests include Christina Shank, Jacqueline Hawkins and Andrew Rhinehart.

Military experiences and a love of music combine for James Corbin, who has been playing the guitar since the age of 5.

Corbin, who grew up in a musical family, toured with the Dirt Poor Authority band a few years before going to North Georgia College and his commission into the U.S. Army. He’s a cavalry officer who has been deployed to Iraq three times.

The Army is what brought him to Fort Knox a year ago as a reconnaissance instructor. He also attended training there when he was a young lieutenant in the armor basic course.

I’ve been sick lately.

Physically sick and emotionally sick.

On Sunday, March 13, a severe cold or other illness overcame me and kept me from work for three days.

The bigger sickness — the emotional one — had come a day earlier, on Saturday, March 12.

That’s when the latest member of our household — a rescued Pomeranian and 10-pound ball of energy named Tybalt —  got loose and was hit by a car.

Tybalt survived his ordeal but had to have his right hind leg removed.