Last week my wife and I spent three days in Louisville, Kentucky. An old friend was getting married and so we decided to stay for a couple of days after the nuptials. When one thinks of Kentucky it is bourbon, not beer, that first comes to mind. The state produces 95% of the nation’s Continue reading Back to the Future in Louisville, Kentucky
Category Archives: History
Designed in Toledo
Toledo, Ohio is known as the Glass City. Reminders of this can be found everywhere around town. You can watch the University of Toledo Rockets play football in the Glass Bowl, open a bank account at the Glass City Federal Credit Union, run in the Glass City Marathon, or go to Continue reading Designed in Toledo
Steel Town and Iron City
Last week I spent a few days in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. What I found there was a city on the rise, a city in the middle of an economic renaissance, a city where good things (lots of them) are happening. The steel industry has gone of course and the city is re-configuring its Continue reading Steel Town and Iron City