Quilt Sisters at the Flood Murals in Paducah

 So, I really wanted to come to Paducah and basically forced my car to do so as well.  It is what it is.  One of the sights I had read about is the flood walls and the beautiful murals painted there.  Yesterday was so yucky out that we are making up for lost time today and leaving the house oh so early so that we can check them out.  We haven't even had breakfast - yep, I'm a determined person.  Poor friends.

So, as soon as we get downtown, a parking spot is located and we set off on foot to explore along the river's edge.  Here are a few highlights, but you really should check these out for yourself if you get a chance.  The details is pretty cool.  Notice how the edge of the paintings is incorporated as if people are coming right out of the painting or sitting on the edge of it.  LOVE.

This first scene shows Broadway, Paducah's main street, in the 1940's when the downtown area was the center for the community's retail, business, and entertainment activities.  Such downtown landmarks as the Guthrie Building, 1937 Post Office, Palmer House Hotel, Citizens Bank Building and Columbia Theater are depicted.  Cast-iron storefronts, manufactured by local foundries, remain from the earlier Victorian era when downtown Paducah experienced enormous economic growth and prosperity.

Ohio Quilt Sisters Trip --- Days 9 and 10

Everyone is packed up - hugs have been given and check out is done.  Before we go, one memory that Stephannie managed to get --- love this so much.

We are starting the journey home, but our car has a few stops in mind along the way.  Some are unplanned and this is literally somewhere in Ohio.  A restroom break was required.

Quilt Sisters at The National Quilt Museum - Eye Candy

We made it!  The National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky.  Come along with us and enjoy the eye candy.

Quilt Sisters Sightseeing - Three Stops in Louisville, Kentucky

 It's always fun when you are with like-minded, adventurous peeps.  We have a wee bit of evening left in Louisville tonight and are off looking for unique things to spice up our trip.  

The first stop is at the Witch's Tree.  According to local lore, in the late 19th century, this tree was the gathering place for a coven of witches.  There they performed their ceremonies and generally didn't create too much of a nuisance.  Until, that is, a city planning committee decided to remove the tree ahead of the annual May Day celebration.  This displeased the witches greatly.  So much so, they cast a curse.  And exactly 11 months to the day after the tree was cut down, the city suffered a storm so severe that it was generally assumed that the witches had made good on their curse and summoned a storm demon.  During the storm, lightning struck the stump of the old witches tree and a new tree began growing there.  Not a healthy, happy tree, but rather the otherworldly thing that stands there now.

Quilt Sisters at The Cincinnati Zoo -- Sherri's Bucket List Adventure

 When we first mentioned taking a trip to Ohio, the first thing Sherri  mentioned was that the Cincinnati Zoo was along the way and she would love to see Fiona, the hippo.  I aim to please and if things can be fit it, we try.  Today, Sherri Stephannie, and I are having a great time with the animals.  Come along and share in our fun.  It's a great morning!  Even Chuck the Duck is along for the ride.  

Ohio Quilt Sisters Trip --- Days 7 and 8

 

Well, Howdy.  We are on Day 7 of our wild and crazy Girls Trip.  This morning we are off to a quilt shop that came highly recommended.  It is in Navarre, OH and here is the AnnaLouisa's Quilt Shop LINK.  GO LOOK AT IT,  I love this place and cannot say that enough.

Quilt Sisters at The Millersburg Glass Museum

 The second stop of our sightseeing today is the Millersburg Glass Museum. I had no idea that there used to be a large glass factory here.  Groundbreaking for the new glass plant took place September 14, 1908 and it was located north of Millersburg along the Killbuck Creek.  Promoted by its first president, John W. Fenton, formerly of Fenton Art Glass, sales of stock to many local businessmen as investors financed the land purchase.  Millersburg was buzzing with enthusiasm when the state-of-the-art glass making facility was completed in May 1909.  The first glass products were crystal, but the company soon followed the fervor for iridescent pressed glassware, introduced in 1907 by Fenton Art Glass, simulating the 'Favrile iridescent art glass' patented in 1894 by Louis Comfort Tiffany.  The Millersburg Glass Co. was one of the largest producers of 'Iridescent Ware.'  They referred to their line as Radium glassware, named for the metallic layer on the outside that seemed to changed colors in the light.  Struggling financially from the beginning, many creditors pursued legal actions against the Millersburg Glass Co. in 1911.  Although reorganized as the Radium Glass Co. in late 1911, production lasted only a few months before the plant was shut down in 1912.  Because of the beauty of its crystal, radium, and satin glass produced in Millersburg, the plant may have been closed but was not forgotten.