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In our town we have this Civil War Museum and also a Woman's Civil War Museum

The museum sits on a hill just above Bardstown Village.

There is always something going on here .
Folks come and  stay and set up little shops that represent what a village would look like around the Civil War Time and other demonstrate trades.
Making brooms, flint making, weaving. There is a mill there that runs down the creek seen to the right.
Yearly there is a Civil War enactment and many of the folks in town take part in this.

Something going all every week-end our town.

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Treasures at the end of a road trip with Tom.

I have mentioned our town is a big tourist town.
We are the Bourbon Capital of the World.
We have 71 restaurants in our county.

This is my favorite.

Welcome to Kreso’s!

The Journey of the Kreso's family began in war-torn Bosnia and brought them to Bardstown, Ky. Dzevad and Merima Kreso and their three young daughters fled their homeland of Bosnia to find a new life away from the terror of war. This refugee family was welcomed by this community almost 15 years ago. In their homeland they were successful restaurant owners, and after making their home in Bardstown, they opened Kreso's Family Restaurant.

The restaurant was finally opened in 2004.

They purchased two movie theaters side by side and renovated them into this most beautiful restaurant filled with all the opulence of their restaurant in Bosnia.
The food is excellent.

One of the front tables.
All the art and valuables took a long time to get to this country.

One wall with paintings of Hollywood stars who had visited them in Europe.
Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Jimmy Dean.

Wall after wall of art and the bar is original to the Bosnian restaurant also.

The stages were renovated and large videos and concerts are held in the back of the restaurant with food and drink.

It looks like a movie set.

This is a treasure to our town. 


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Some Treasures from the backroads

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Traveling with Tom on the back roads.

 Came across some yard art on my ride.

 Very realistic.

 Same yard.

Just down the road from me is a convenient roadside store with this huge rooster named

"Ossie"

This rooster has been here for many years as the store was opened many years ago and was the center and still is of this little community.

The name of the community is

Rooster Run.

It is said that all the men would gather here and drink beer and talk about their "old hens."

According to the story all the old hens advanced on the store and the men one day  with brooms sticks and shooed them all home.

It was heard said

"Look at all those Roosters Run."

and that is how it got its name.


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Combining two memes today.

This is a shot of our beautiful ourdoor theater 

My Old Kentucky Home  Amphitheatre.

This is definitely a town treasure.

Every summer for over 50 years the story of Stephen Foster and his Jeannie with The Light Brown Hair is held here.

This is where Foster visited his cousin John Rowan of Bardstown and wrote many of his songs.

This is where he met Jeanie an fell in love with her.

 

If you watch this highlight you will see the Old Ky.Home in the trees in the background.

 Beautiful bronze statue of Stephen Foster on the grounds of My Old Kentucky Home and the amphitheater. 

They are all on the same property.

This is where our beautiful grand daughter's graduation from Bethlehem High School took place.

 

Definitely in a pensive mood with all her colors.
 

 

9th of our 10 grands have graduated.
One more next year.
So proud of all of them.

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