Posted on 08/10/2014 8:35:23 PM PDT by george76
We took a carriage ride in Bardstown, KY when we visited, but that was years ago. We enjoyed the Corvette museum in Bowling Green, KY but parts of the Coal Mining areas are depressing.
There are beautiful parts of KY, and except for winter would be just like here.
I visit Bardstown often, old girlfriend lives there and the Abbey of Gethsemane is also where I spend the occasional weekend.
Did you happen to see the article where part of the vette museum floor collapsed into a limestone cave taking a few of the vettes with it? I used to work for Chevy and had a meeting there 30 years ago got to watch them being made.
Lots of Eastern Ky. are depressing especially when you are from there and can remember the boom times. The Feds have been hard at work for 40 years trying to put the coal business out of business but never have they been as successful as during Obama’s tenure.
The old saying in E. Ky is when a baby is born it gets a slap on the butt and a roadmap to Detroit. Most of us with any get up and go got up and left years ago but it is like an elephant graveyard, we always go back to die. When I talk to people in Central Ky sometimes I pick up on an accent and ask where are you from? They say I have been here for 30 years. I say where are you really from? They will then tell me some small town in E. Ky and say they are going back as soon as they retire. You never really leave the mountains, 30 years and you are still a foreigner in a foreign land. In exile for 30 years and you still can not get used to the people you have to rub shoulders with and you don’t want to.
Where is here for you?
Snort.
I’m not from KY. WE were on vacation there about 12-13 years ago...and yes, I heard about the collapse, so glad I had seen it years ago.
“I’m not from KY. WE were on vacation there about 12-13 years ago.”
Sorry. What I was asking was in reference to where you were from since it looked like Ky without the winters. Never really been anywhere that I thought looked like Ky.
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Beautiful state. Great basketball teams, just wish they would not beat Ky. so often.
Our lower areas with more hills than high mountains do resemble areas of KY I have visited.
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