It’s that time of the year when travelers think about going over the river and through the woods to visit their relatives in the Bluegrass state for the holidays, and Kentucky Tourism is debuting a campaign promoting travel with friends and loved ones using “Road Snacks” as a vehicle to pay homage to Kentucky’s Bluegrass…
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Holiday Cocktail from Mary Dowling Bourbon
Mary Dowling was a maverick and pioneer in the early days of Anderson County Bourbon making. Her story inspired a whole brand and that label has poured out (see what we did there?) some tremendous small batch bourbons. The newest release is a smooth, grain-forward Winter Wheat and makes the perfect base for a Whiskey…
Sip in Style at Broadway Barrels
By Patti Nickel When Zeena Brady talks, you hear the heathered hills of Ireland in her voice. But the Dublin-born Brady is quick to tell you that despite her accent, her heart is only part emerald green. The rest is pure Kentucky Bluegrass. Brady arrived in Lawrenceburg 10 years ago by way of New York…
Treehouse, bourbon barrels and Airstreams: Here are 6 unique places to stay in Kentuckynique Places
Reprint from the Courier – Journal Written by Kirby Adams When did you last sleep in a treehouse? What about a bourbon barrel? If your answer is “never,” maybe this is the summer you step outside the box. Because the truth is, when you live in Kentucky, you don’t have to go far to have…
Enjoy the Charm of Downtown Lawrenceburg: Shop, Dine, and Delight!
by Patti Nickel Remember those days when shopping was actually fun? When you dressed up and went downtown to spend hours stocking up on everything you needed (and some things you didn’t, but wanted anyway). No? Then you missed out on the days before giant malls and Big Box stores turned shopping from a…
Indie Race Spotlight: Take a Walk on the Wild Side
Reposted from Slowtwitch By Ryan Heisler It’s tough out there for race directors these days. Expenses are up; competition is fierce; finding volunteers can be a full-time job (as evidenced by the still massive need for volunteers at even long-standing IM branded events). And then there’s people like Jim Rainey and Robbie Morgan. They’re in…
From Capybaras to Camels: Exploring Little Crooked Creek’s Unusual Menagerie of Love
by Patti Nickel You know the old adage, “getting there is half the fun?” That certainly holds true if your destination is Little Crooked Creek Safari on the border of Anderson and Shelby Counties. You’ll want to slow down and savor the almost primeval beauty of the dense forest that shelters the creek as it…
Bourbon: Aussie Style
By Patti Nickel Who says that the new can’t co-exist compatibly with the old? Lawrenceburg Bourbon Company, a relative newcomer to the industry, is proof that it can. Open in its current location only since November of last year, it sits in the shadow of Wild Turkey, one of Kentucky’s most revered distilleries. “We are…
Garden & Gun says this local stay is “whimsical”.
Wake Up in a Bourbon Barrel in Rural Kentucky These whimsical cabins may be the Bourbon Trail’s most fitting spot for a nightcap By STEVE RUSSELL March 6, 2024 Garden & Gun Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail rewards brown-water fans with an abundance of bourbon distilleries, bourbon tours, bourbon bars, and bourbon-centric restaurants. The only glaring omission…
Success is sweet for the Cook sisters.
By Patti Nickel Most 15-year-old girls rely on one of their parents to chauffeur them to gymnastics practices, mall shopping sprees or school dances, but then most girls aren’t Taylor Cook. True, at 15, Taylor needed her father John to be her driver, but not for shopping or gymnastics or any of the other things…