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KY Pictures

We thought we would be below the snow line in Elizabethtown, KY, just south of Louisville. This is what we saw when we woke up the morning of January 7th. Only about an inch but still not what we wanted. One morning it was only 5 degrees.

Needless to say, the bicycle did not get used.
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But being that close to Louisville, we had to go see the Kentucky Derby Museum at Churchill Downs.

This statue of Barbaro (he is buried under it) is the only known statue of this size to show a horse in full stride with all four hooves in the air.
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These twin spires are from the original Churchill Downs complex.
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Elaine actually won her race; I finished mine fifth out of a field of five.

Doesn’t Elaine look good on this horse? What you don’t see are the stairs behind the horse she used to mount it.
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This statue was in the visitor’s center at Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace. It is Lincoln’s parents and sister. Abe is the child in his mother’s arms.
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This is the memorial which contains a cabin similar to the one in which Lincoln was born. There are 56 steps, one for each year of his life.

This cabin is an original from the early 1800s which was dismantled and reconstructed at the memorial. It is similar to Lincoln’s. The original log cabin that Lincoln was reputed to have been born in was dismantled sometime before 1865 because it was a prostitute house. Local tradition held that some of the logs from the cabin were used in construction of a nearby house.

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We were not allowed to take photos inside “My Old Kentucky Home”.
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Stephen Foster is the only composer to write two (2) state songs. "My Old Kentucky Home" is the state song of Kentucky. "Old Folks at Home," more commonly known as "Swanee River" is the state song of Florida.
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We visited the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY. We were not allowed to photograph any of the quilts in the museum but were able to take these photos in the lobby.
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This quilt at right was made by volunteers and was being raffled off to raise money for the museum.
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These ladies volunteer to do hand quilting in the lobby every Wednesday. They donate their finished work to the museum to raise money.

This yo-yo quilt was one of their projects.
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We went to the River Discovery museum and learned a lot about river travel, floods and shipping. Here Elaine is piloting a barge tow in a simulator. It even rocked like you were on a ship.
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One 15-barge tow can carry as much freight as 216 rail cars or 1,050 tractor trailer trucks.
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Last updated January 23, 2011

The flood wall in Paducah has murals depicting the river’s history.