We started the day at Blue Licks Battlefield, which was a revolutionary war site.
It was very amazing to me that, given Kentucky had the most brother against brother fighting in the "Former Unpleasantness", I could never find a single war of northern aggression site. I saw signs for some, but never found them.
Anyway, the Blue Licks Battlefield was the farthest north that we went in this trip. The drive was pretty, but when we got there, the Pioneer Museum was closed for renovation. Bummer. We did walk around the site and we drove down to the river road.
We drove back through Georgetown since Jim stayed there for a couple of years. The house he lived in was torn down, but the houses and dorm he remodeled were still there.
On the way back, we also came across a covered bridge and got some pics:
One of the things that had puzzled me throughout the whole trip is the tobacco. We saw fields of it, but I never saw a single tobacco barn. Jim said that we have passed scores of them. Oh no we didn't!
I was looking for this:
Kentucky tobacco barns look like this:
They are huge. The wagon full of tobacco drives right into the barn and the whole plant is hung up to dry. And they are still being used. We saw a pile of sticks in the one I photographed, ready to be loaded with tobacco.
Also, on the way back we went through the town of Oddville. They didn't have any boundary signs, probably because people steal them.
We also passed, finally, a war between the states sign. It just had to be a last stand.
Finally, on our last afternoon, we went to an antique tractor show in Paris Municipal Park. I saw my dream tractor:
What I learned:
Tobacco in Kentucky is different than tobacco in North Carolina
Alice Chalmers made the coolest tractor ever
It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there
There's no place like home, Auntie Em.
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