Oh the sun shines bright...

.... on my old Kentucky home.  This morning we drove to Bardstown, KY where just south of there is a state park located at the homestead that inspired Stephen Foster to write this Kentucky State song.  We had a very nice lunch at the "Old Talbott Tavern" which is right downtown Bardstown and has been declared an historic building that Abe Lincoln had been there.  We're sure that he had the same lunch that we did.

After lunch we toured two bourbon distilleries and while most of them have a similar process they all have a different recipe and story to tell.  These pictures are mostly from one of them and it was interesting to know that they mostly get their oak barrels from Lebanon, MO.  This first picture is the vertical still and looks nothing like the (next to last) picture which is in the lobby of the other bourbon maker.

 

Tonight we have tickets to a music show and will be walking that way soon.  The headline performers are Moe Bandy, Janie Frickie, and David Frizzell.