Kentucky

[Battis]

I'm like an impressionable teenager - I see something on TV and I want to be like the main character, or I see an interesting place and I want to visit it. I think it started with Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone.
Anyhoo, we just finished watching JUSTIFIED, and I gotta say, Kentucky looks like a place I want to visit. It reminds me of NH. Where's a good area to visit?
Also, I was wondering what the people of Harlan think of that series, and the way they portrayed the locals.

[Tall]

There are a lot of great places to visit in KY. The Horse Farm is nice, I took visitors there and they would always come away impressed. The distillery tours are fun. Maker's Mark is recommended. Lexington, Louisville, Edgewater - all worth visiting.

[koger]

I live in Wayne county KY, and it is a beautiful area. Rolling farms, wooded mountains, Lake Cumberland with 1200 miles of shoreline. We have the worlds largest working waterwheel/gristmill, since before the civil war and they run it on special occasions. There is Millsprings battlefield site in Nancy KY. Our county is a large one, with a small town, Monticello. If you want to come down this way, I would be happy to spend a good part of a day or two showing you around. We are also close to the Alvin York homestead, about 45 minutes away, and beautiful scenery there. lI own about 20 acres that joins the wife and her two brothers family homestead of 800 acres, where the little south fork river starts basically right above our farm you can step across it, several large springs feed the river on our property. Very sparsley populated out there, only 4 houses in the entire valley which runs for miles back into Tenn. You may or may not see deer, turkey, bear, coyote and bobcats out there. Holler if you want to.

[Bazoo]

I live in Hardin County. Lincoln's birthplace is just down the road. I've not been yet, though I want to, more for the historical aspects of that time period than Lincoln himself.

Mammoth Cave might be someplace you'd want to check out, again, I ain't been yet. I have been to a cave, Squire Boone Caverns I think it was.

Whittaker Guns in Owensboro has closed.

RedHill Cutlery in Radcliff if you like knives, and happen to in the area. https://redhillcutlery.com/

[Iron369]

I live in Louisville. For the most part, it’s a liberal dumpster fire. There are some decent places in Ky but I wouldn’t recommend spending much time in the city. Louisville does have some incredible craft beer shops and craft/commercial bourbon breweries and distilleries. Also the largest fireworks show in North America is coming up in a couple weeks.

[Electrod47]

Kentucky Ballistics...........

[Winger Ed.]

Just be careful if someone offers you a glass of apple pie.

[FergusonTO35]

Richmond here and out in the country. My family has been here since before statehood in 1792, one of my ancestors received a land grant in Clark County and we still have part of it today. Stay out of Louseyville and certain parts of Lexington and you'll be fine.

Sadly, some of the poorest places in the USA are in Kentucky. There really are places here where children go without shoes and get most of their nutrition from school lunch. Some people live without power and running water not by choice. Legal gambling and predatory lending hits these people really hard. But, you can find that stuff in LA and NYC too.

I'm a proud Kentuckian and our Commonwealth is great in so many ways. The rural areas are the best with lots of agriculture and awesome hunting and fishing opportunities everywhere. Wouldn't live anywhere else!

Far as visiting goes, any of the state resort parks are fantastic. Pretty much every town has tourist and historical attractions to go to. Frankfort is the state capitol and has the Kentucky Historical Society museum which is massive and would take more than a day to go through.

[FergusonTO35]

Just be careful if someone offers you a glass of apple pie.

Just a sip at first, trust me on that!

[Battis]

Koger, thanks for the offer. If we go, it'll be in the fall. I'll have to translate when my wife talks with that Boston accent. It stands out even around here.
We're flying into Las Vegas in a few weeks and driving to southern Utah, then Monument Valley, then Sedona, then flying out of Phoenix. At least that's what I'm told. I suggest, she plans.

[dverna]

You will love it. Visited many times.

Tennessee is great too. Have done the Jack Daniels tour three times.

[35isit]

Nicholasville here. Central part of the state. Keeneland, Wild Turkey distillery and many other tourist places. Classic Arms and Archery in Lexington is a great place to stop. Buds Gunshop is also in Lexington. Ky. Guns is in Bardstown.

[jlm223]

Check out Cumberland Falls State Park if you get close.

[Winger Ed.]

Just a sip at first, trust me on that!

On the Justified show, that's what the old lady called her tasteless, home made, quick action poison.
It was kept on a different shelf than her regular moonshine.
If she offered it to you,,,, and ya drank it,,,, you died

[FergusonTO35]

I know a gent who makes some good shine, and he makes sure the sheriff gets a few jars for Christmas every year!

[Finster101]

Parents were from Russell Springs and Columbia. I grew up in Louisville. It is beautiful around Lake Cumberland, spent a lot of time fishing that lake and also bellow the dam for trout and walleye. Haven't been back in years but taking my Mom up in May to visit some family probably for the last time. None of us are getting any younger. My Dad worked in a cooperage plant in Louisville. Some of the guys there made some good moonshine and a little good whiskey too.

[FergusonTO35]

Nicholasville here. Central part of the state. Keeneland, Wild Turkey distillery and many other tourist places. Classic Arms and Archery in Lexington is a great place to stop. Buds Gunshop is also in Lexington. Ky. Guns is in Bardstown.

I graduated from West Jessamine. 'Course, it was just Jessamine County back then

[Winger Ed.]

In years past, I'd made 190 proof, more of less pure alcohol. There's no big trick to it.
However; 'the good stuff'---- now that is an art and a craft rather difficult to master.

[Thundarstick]

Do you like to fish? Kentucky lake is it.

[WRideout]

I lived in Knoxville TN for seven years, and once while driving through the norther edge of TN with my daughter, got lost and ended up in Monticello, KY. To this day, if I seemed a bit turned around she will ask me "Are we going to Kentucky?"

Kentucky has many aspects; the eastern Appalachian portion is very different from the bluegrass horse country and the great river valleys. People in Southern Indiana and Ohio have more allegiance to Kentucky than their native state.

Wayne

[farmbif]

lot of good people in Harlan but they have consistently been getting shafted by the mine owners time and time again. see they declare bankruptcy so they can get out of paying pensions, medical and other benefits that miners had worked a lifetime for then the mine owners open back up under a new business name.
last time I was there I went because a web site said the welding supply store had some parts I needed but in reality the business was closed, out of business.
but they sure do have a real nice athletic complex in Harlan for the kids. like most other states its a large piece of land and in it you can find just about everything.
when planning your drives dont trust google maps for estimated travel time especially in the hilly and mountainous eastern part of state it takes a lot longer to go over twisted mountain roads then it does to travel where the highway is straight and flat.
if your feeling philanthropic red bird mission in red bird ky is one of the best and most trusted charities in the world helping real people in real ways

[WinchesterM1]

I live in Ashland Ky which is in the Tristate of Ohio and Wv and it’s beautiful here!! Great small game hunting a deer hunting! Carter caves is a fun place to go, and also fishing and camping is fun

[BRobertson]

Corvette Museum!

[farmbif]

oh yeah, I ought to mention if you like pawn/gun shops there are lots of great ones loaded with lots of all kinds of stuff. for me a must visit every time I go to middlesboro is shylocks plus there is another good sized one that used to be awesome right on the main highway 25E.