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At Glassworks in Louisville, visitors can watch glassblowers, cutters and designers twist and blow glass into various shapes and sizes. The museum, art studios and artists' residences are in the historic downtown Snead Manufacturing Building.

first appeared: 7/2/2006

Fluorite specimens from the region's mines sparkle at the Ben E. Clement Mineral Museum in Marion (pop. 3,196). The museum's collection includes ore buckets, stone crushers, drills and other mining tools, photographs, journals and mineral specimens.

first appeared: 6/25/2006

Known as the "Father of Black History," Carter G. Woodson graduated in 1903 from Berea (pop. 9,851) College. The historian and teacher started Negro History Week in 1926, which evolved into Black History Month 50 years later.

first appeared: 6/4/2006

The Augusta (pop. 1,204) home of entertainer Rosemary Clooney (1928-2002) opened as a museum last year and includes a White Christmas room with memorabilia from the 1954 movie Clooney starred in with Bing Crosby. Clooney received a lifetime Grammy Award in 2002.

first appeared: 5/21/2006

Chris Ramsey of Somerset (pop. 11,352), also known as "Knot-Head," turns fallen trees into wooden cowboy hats. The custom-fitted, artsy hats adorn the heads of country music stars, NASCAR drivers and regular folks, too.

first appeared: 5/14/2006

"Father of the Motion Picture" D.W. Griffith is best remembered for his technical innovations in the 1915 film Birth of a Nation, which depicted the South after the Civil War. Griffith was born in 1875 in La Grange (pop. 5,676).

first appeared: 4/23/2006

In 1914, inventor Garrett Morgan patented a safety hood and smoke protector, which allowed firefighters to enter smoke-filled buildings. The hood was the forerunner of the modern gas mask. Morgan was born in 1877 in Paris, Ky. (pop. 9,183).

first appeared: 4/9/2006

Established in 1823, the Kentucky School for the Deaf in Danville (pop. 15,477) was the fourth such school in the United States, and the first state-supported public school for the deaf in the nation.

first appeared: 3/26/2006

About 1800, the Rev. James McGready, Presbyterian minister at the Red River Meeting House in Adairville (pop. 920), led a religious awakening on the frontier. Reports say folks traveled up to 100 miles to attend camp meetings.

first appeared: 3/12/2006

The North American International Livestock Exposition, an annual event in Louisville, is the world’s largest all-breed, purebred livestock show and draws nearly 22,000 entries. A rodeo and "country store" with 150 vendors are among the attractions.

first appeared: 2/26/2006

Award-winning poet and farmer Wendell Berry lives on a farm in Port Royal. Berry works the farm with horses, and has written more than 40 books of poetry, essays and novels.

first appeared: 2/12/2006

Founded by settlers in 1780, Transylvania University in Lexington is the oldest college west of the Allegheny Mountains. "Transylvania" is from a Latin phrase meaning "across the woods," an apt description of the region that became Kentucky in 1792.

first appeared: 1/29/2006

Food critic Duncan Hines, whose name brands a line of cake mixes, was born in 1880 in Bowling Green (pop. 49,296). Hines began his career as a traveling salesman, and in the 1940s and 1950s wrote hospitality books, a newspaper column and a daily radio program recommending places for travelers to eat and sleep.

first appeared: 1/15/2006

MISS KENTUCKY 2006—Kerri Katelyn Mitchell is a fourth-generation educator and a substitute teacher. The Eastern Kentucky University senior also knows how to relieve classroom stress and make her students laugh with impressions and silly voices.

first appeared: 1/8/2006

The Mike Fink Restaurant on the Ohio River in Covington (pop. 43,370) originally was the 1940s John W. Hubbard sternwheeler, a boat built to tow oil barges. The floating restaurant, named for legendary 19th-century keelboat captain Mike Fink, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

first appeared: 1/1/2006

Grateful for his prosperity as a bourbon distiller, Isaac Bernheim donated 14,000 acres to the state in 1929 for the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest at Clermont. The 240-acre arboretum contains 1,900 varieties of trees, shrubs and other plants. Guests also can visit gardens, lakes, a nature center, scenic natural area, 30 miles of hiking trails and a 12,000-acre research forest.

first appeared: 12/18/2005

The world’s largest ceiling clock marks time in the rotunda of the Lexington Public Library. The 40-foot-diameter clock features Roman numerals that light up to indicate the hour and is surrounded by 60 horses that light up in succession giving the illusion of movement.

first appeared: 12/4/2005

Ten thousand African-American soldiers enlisted at Camp Nelson, near Nicholasville (pop. 19,680), established in 1863 as a Union Army supply depot and training center. Many brought families, and a refugee camp was established near the present-day community of Hall.

first appeared: 11/20/2005

Born in Louisville, musician Lionel Hampton (1908-2002) popularized the vibraphone as a jazz instrument and became one of the first black musicians to play with a white band—the Benny Goodman Quartet—in the 1930s.

first appeared: 11/6/2005

Through the centuries, a gristmill and nightclub have operated inside the Lost River Cave at Bowling Green (pop. 49,296). In 1990, Friends of Lost River organized to restore and operate the cave, and the group began boat tours in 1998.

first appeared: 10/23/2005

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