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Good finds in Frankfort

 


Courtesy Buffalo Trace Distillery


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• The Kentucky Historical Society gives tours of the Old State Capitol, opened in 1830 and one of the first examples of Greek Revival architecture west of the Allegheny Mountains.

• On a bluff above downtown, the recently renovated Kentucky Military History Museum looks like the arsenal that it is. History is told through weapons such as a sword from the Mexican War.

•  It seems bourbon and chocolate have always been best friends, but in 1936, when Ruth Booe put them together, her pairing was innovative. Booe’s candy company, Rebecca Ruth, continues today in a white-clapboard house a few blocks from the state Capitol. Tours include tastes.

• The Kentucky State Capitol’s elegant interiors are made from white Georgia marble, gray Tennessee marble, green Italian marble and Vermont granite. Oil paintings above grand staircases depict Daniel Boone and his days on the Kentucky frontier.

• See Kentucky’s wild side at Salato Wildlife Education Center. Indoor exhibits display snakes and working bees and detail records for various fishing catches. Outside are trails, picnic areas, fishing lakes and a dragonfly marsh, as well as exhibits where bobcats, bison, elk and other native animals live in large enclosures.

•  Experience art and Kentucky’s scenic beauty on a stroll through Josephine Sculpture Park, where 20 sculptures are displayed along paths on 10 acres of rolling hills.

For a true taste of Frankfort.
Downtown offers a range of restaurants.  Sandwiches and soups are homemade at the Kentucky Coffeetree Cafe, in a bookstore that adjoins a Kentucky crafts store. A few storefronts down on St. Clair Mall, a pedestrian area, Serafini blends Italy and the Bluegrass in dishes such as an Italian country ham-and-cheese dip. Serafini has banquet rooms for small groups.

Near Buffalo Trace Distillery, Jim’s Seafood is next to  the dam at Lock Four on the Kentucky River; a banquet room is available. The Meeting House Bed and Breakfast and Cafe is a pre-Civil War home where lunch and special meals can be arranged.

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