Fascinating baseball history and a cool look at how bats are made at the Louisville Slugger Museum and factory.
A walk on the riverfront plaza overlooking the Ohio and the Belle of Louisville.
APH American Printing House for the Blind
Our tour guide obviously loves her job. She is an historian and manages their museum. In an hour I learned more about the creation and development of Braille and other tactile alphabets and teaching tools for the blind than I even knew there was to learn. Book printing and recording of books is all going to electronic processes so the factory tour part was a bit anticlimactic. Still, it was an interesting couple hours.
Other people might head for hot browns and derby pie as Louisville signature foods but we had to find Ollie’s Trolley. It is a fast food burger joint with special seasonings on the fries and in the burger. It was about like I remembered it. We sampled from food truck fare too. Louisville gets about a C- in that category. There were only three trucks at the “food truck invasion” downtown: a fried cheese truck, a steak sandwich truck, and the most adventurous, a French Canadian sandwich truck. We went for unique and tried a pulled pork with some pretty funky veggies and sauces. I am not sure I would doit again but it was a bit of adventure.
The Derby clock on 4th street. It is sort of like a huge cuckoo clock only on the hour five figures race; Thomas Jefferson, King Louis, Clark, Daniel Boone and a mermaid representing the paddleboat Belle of Louisville. It didn’t run at 3 O’clock like it was supposed to. Bummers.
More bourbon chocolates…better than a mint julep as far as I am concerned. We came across a boutique chocolate shop that makes absolutely fantastic bourbon truffles with an uncanny knack for matching bourbon and chocolate types. Yum.