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Overview

Kentucky Curiosities is your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Bluegrass State has to offer.

 

Discover a medieval castle in the middle of horse-farm country, a soda fountain where the burgers and shakes are almost as famous as the clientele, and the true meaning of "biting the bullet."

 

Meet the man who invented the traffic light, Kentucky's two Cassius Clays, and the real J. Peterman.

 

Visit a museum devoted to the history of whiskey, a rest area named for a shoeshine man, and...

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Overview

Kentucky Curiosities is your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Bluegrass State has to offer.

 

Discover a medieval castle in the middle of horse-farm country, a soda fountain where the burgers and shakes are almost as famous as the clientele, and the true meaning of "biting the bullet."

 

Meet the man who invented the traffic light, Kentucky's two Cassius Clays, and the real J. Peterman.

 

Visit a museum devoted to the history of whiskey, a rest area named for a shoeshine man, and a house with 13 windows, 13-foot ceilings, 13 railings - you get the picture!

 

Whether you're a born-and-raised Kentuckian or a recent transplant, authors Vince Staten and Liz Baldi will have you laughing out loud as they introduce you to the neighbors you never knew you had and take you to places you never knew existed - right in your own backyard.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780762723270
  • Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
  • Publication date: 11/28/2002
  • Edition description: 1ST
  • Pages: 224
  • Series: Curiosities Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.98 (w) x 8.68 (h) x 0.55 (d)

Meet the Author

A syndicated columnist and author of ten books, including Unauthorized America: A Travel Guide to the Places the Chamber of Commerce Won't Tell You About (HarperCollins, 1990), Vince Staten has appeared on such media as "Late Night with David Letterman," "Dateline NBC," "Today on NBC," and NPR's "Morning Edition." His varied career encompasses writing, lecturing, teaching, and co-owning Vince Staten's Old Time Barbecue in downtown Prospect, Kentucky.

Reporter Liz Baldi has written for Kentucky Monthly and other publications.

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Up All Night at the Coffee Museum
Louisville
Some strive for greatness; others have greatness thrust upon them. In Kentucky, we just take what we can get. That's why we dedicate little back-pocket museums to matters of small consequence.
Which brings us to the Coffee Museum. You might think that, say, Brazil, would be the perfect location for a Coffee Museum. But you're thinking about production. We're talking consumption here. At one time Louisvillians drank more coffee per capita than any other city in America.
We lost that crown long ago. See, our typing doesn't even shake anymore. But during our coffee binge we produced our own coffee king, Jon Conti, who sold more coffee than any coffee manufacturer not on a coast.
Part of being a coffee king means collecting all the paraphernalia that goes along with coffee so Conti acquired quite a collection of mugs and pots and filters. You can see it all at the Jon Conti Coffee Museum.
The Jon Conti Coffee Museum is at 2309 Beuchel By-Pass. Take the Bardstown Rd. exit, exit 16, from I-264. Turn left on Beuchel By-Pass, 1.5 miles from the interstate. The Museum is another 2.3 miles on the right.

Table of Contents

About the Authors vi
Introduction vii
Louisville 1
The Bluegrass 37
The Mountains 67
The Pennyrile 95
The Jackson Purchase 147
Northern Kentucky 171
Index 206

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