Whether you go to Kentucky to watch the Kentucky Derby or just take
a glance at the infamous Churchill Downs, or to talk a walk where the Battle of the Bridge, one of the
well known battle grounds from the Civil War, Kentucky is rich in American History.
President Lincoln knew this from the time he was a small boy, running through
the rolling bluegrass or over the hills, through the hollows.
Fishing at the creek or in
one of the big lakes. Little did he know as that small boy, the role life was to give him,
in the history of the United States.
Bill Monroe, known as the Father of Bluegrass was also born in Kentucky.
Maybe he sat at his fathers chair as a boy, learning the history of music,
on the front porch.
Travel to the Eastern Highlands North to Butcher Hollow and see the
childhood home of Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle. People struggling to make a
living that were able to overcome the hard life to learn and enjoy something as
pleasing as music.
On Friday or Saturday night take a horse-drawn carriage tour in downtown Paducah.
Take a look around one of the old southern Mansions, where maybe even you
can be the bell of the ball, or the cavalier gentleman, seeking out his fame and
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