Historic Purple Bridge Opens for Foot Traffic Between Kentucky and Ohio
by Mary Gallagher America’s only pedestrian bridge linking two states opened April 26th connecting Cincinnati, Ohio and Newport, Kentucky and let me tell you it is great and the perfect plan for an old bridge! The color is pretty hysterical at first...
Along the Kentucky Music Trail
Country music and more in the Appalachian Mountains By Susan McKee From Berea, through the Renfro Valley, on to Prestonburg and Ashland, I found music everywhere on the Kentucky Music Trail. Last summer I spent five days checking out the options on the...
Harmonious Highway: A Journey Along Kentucky’s Route 23
Story By Dorothea S. Michelman Kentucky, aptly nicknamed the ‘Bluegrass State’ for the springtime hue of its fields of Poa pratensis, is equally renowned as the birthplace of the bluegrass musical tradition. With the varied harmonies of mountain,...
Labrot & Graham: Learning the process to historic Kentucky Bourbon.
By mary gallagher On one of my visits to Kentucky I visited the Labrot & Graham distillery, the Bourbon Homeplace. It is the oldest, smallest and slowest working of the nine Bourbon distilleries now in production in the commonwealth and dates back...
Louisville, Kentucky – History, Excitement, and Charm
Fun for the whole family By Arvin Steinberg Ask any jockey in the U.S. what one race he or she would most want to win. I am confident the answer would be – the Kentucky Derby! So famous is this race that it is often referred to as “the greatest two...
