Tag: Kentucky

a writing assignment about silent travel has brought me to a Trappist monastery in rural Kentucky for a week. You don’t have to be Catholic to stay here (I am not), but you do have to be totally quiet. Trappist monks live much of their lives without speaking, as a form of contemplative prayer and a means for tuning their senses to God. Retreatants are invited to experience this way of life—and refrain from imposing the opposite. For me, this doesn’t just mean not talking to anyone here; it also includes turning off all technology, all week long.

Set in the rolling hills of Goshen, Kentucky, Hermitage Farm is a historic property and inn that raises champion thoroughbreds and celebrates the area’s agricultural legacy with bourbon tastings and farm-to-table dining. At the property’s Barn8 restaurant, bartender and Kentucky native Zack Staten uses craft bourbons in seasonal cocktails like the Bourbon, Beets, Battlestar Galactica, a fall menu favorite.

On the 25th anniversary of Kentucky's bourbon trail—and the 150th anniversary of the Kentucky Derby—a writer and his expat cousin rediscover the city.

Travel along a route lined with history, including stops at the world's oldest bourbon distillery and Abraham Lincoln's birthplace.

The woman at the helm of the National Corvette Museum gets us up to speed on the destination that celebrates America’s iconic sports car

As much as we love the South's quintessential clapboard churches and stately mansions, our appreciation of Southern architecture extends beyond the classics. We‘ve combed the region for noteworthy structures, from historical masterpieces like Thomas Jefferson‘s Palladian Monticello to modern marvels like the breezy, zero-energy McDonald‘s Florida flagship (yes, McDonald’s).

Thanks to its next-to-nonexistent level of light pollution, this remote park at the entrance of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is one of the best places in the country to stargaze.

While Louisville may shine especially bright on the first Saturday of May, there’s much more to Louisville than big hats and fast horses.

Billing itself as the most exciting two minutes in sports, the Run for the Roses is a one-and-a-quarter-mile race held at Churchill Downs.

Every spring, a handful of small people in silk shirts risk life and limb on the backs of giant beasts while 200,000 onlookers roar with excitement. After 136 years, the home...