02 Paducah KY into Nashville
After leaving Memphis we headed North to Paducah KY. Paducah could be called “quilt city”. It houses the Museum of American Quilters Society and hosts the annual American Quilt Society show. During this show, the population of the city basically doubles. We (actually mostly Carole) spent 3 days here. We both visited the city and the museum.
Harry did the museum, shown above, and accompanied Carole to a presentation by Eleanor Burns who is an acknowledged expert and writer about quilting. After this presentation, Harry found “better” things to do while Carole pursued the quilting stuff. Unfortunately, the museum, which contains a multitude of award winning quilts, did not allow picture taking. When Carole went back into town to the judged show, she did not take the camera and it turned out that pictures were allowed. According to Carole, this was a great experience.
Paducah is noted for the murals which have been painted on the flood wall. The Ohio River flows along the North side of the city and is subject to flooding. The murals were pretty neat.
From Paducah we headed Southeast to Nashville. It is sort of like there are two attraction categories to this city. There are “music city” attractions and everything else. Here we will deal with the”everything else” and in our next update we will do the “music city” part.
A historic attraction in Nashville is the Belle Meade plantation. This was a horse breeding and raising plantation which was founded at the beginning of the 19th Century. Of interest to us is the fact that today’s thoroughbred horse bloodlines eminate from only four horses, at least one of which was at this plantation and is buried there.
The smokehouse
Enquirer’s grave.
Slave quarters.
We took a sternwheeler boat tour of the Cumberland River which took us into the downtown area. The boat was the General Jackson.
We visited the Nashville Zoo, a very nice facility.
Zoo people always talk about how much a given type of animal eats, they never mention this end of things.
For a World’s Fair the the early 1900s, Nashville built a replica of the Greek Parthanon.
We also did some geo-caching in and around Nashville, which we will not cover here.
This concludes the non-music related part of our visit to Nashville. The next installment will be the “music city” aspect, to include a visit to the Grand Ole Oprey and to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Hope you enjoyed it!!
