Tourism

May 6, 2015

Recently, a friend inquired, as I was prattling on about Kentucky, if any of our towns had original names (this friend being English and laying claim to those names which originated across the pond – you know who you are). I paused, a tart retort pleading to be released, but as my brain frantically scanned (read more)

Categories: Barren County, Historic Preservation, Kentucky architecture, Tourism

Tags: Barren County, Glasgow, Glasgow Highland Games, National Register of Historic Places, Plaza Theater

May 2, 2015

There are certain things all Kentucky schoolchildren learn (at least those of us who went through the public school system). All 120 counties, and the county seats. Daniel Boone, blazing a trail through the wilderness. That Derby Day is a sacred holiday, and that while basketball may be the Bluegrass religion, we revere a 19th-century (read more)

Categories: Bluegrass, Fayette County, Historic Preservation, Kentucky architecture, Tourism

Tags: Ashland, Great Compromiser, Henry Clay, Kentucky Archaeological Survey, Lexington KY, Politics, Public Archaeology

April 29, 2015

I’ve been very, very lucky to spend three of the past five summers in England. But while I was away, playing across the pond, morning glories took over my garden, my dogs lost any semblance of obedience, and my pocketbook…well, let’s just say that historic preservation is not a career one pursues for the utmost (read more)

Categories: Bluegrass, Henderson County, Historic Preservation, Kentucky architecture, Tourism

Tags: Civilian Conservation Corps, Henderson, John James Audubon, Mckim Mead and White, Norman Revival, State Parks, Works Progress Administration

January 5, 2015

I am easily seduced by sense of place. I’m a Kentuckian (sixth generation of a family with chronically long generations ), so part of that may be genetic. Plus, I’m a nerd for history, and the tantalizing mixture of building, feature, landscape and memory with which so many of our historic places seethe. My first (read more)

Categories: Bluegrass, Kentucky architecture, Shakers, Tourism

Tags: Historic architecture, Kentucky tourism, Mercer County, Shakers, Shakertown, Thomas Merton

Kilts, Scotties & the Barrens: Glasgow, the Kentucky version

The Perfect Bet: A Visit to Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate

Is that a Chateau in Kentucky? Touring, Turrets and Terns!

Seduction by Shakers: Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill

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