When a city starts bringing significant retail, restaurant, and recreational opportunities to its downtown area, it is primarily to ensure a better quality of life for its residents. However, at the same time, this development brings with it a secondary benefit – to enhance the city’s tourism appeal. After all, isn’t a key factor in…
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The Siege of Fort Boonesborough
Most Americans know about the Boston Massacre in Massachusetts, the fall of the Alamo in Texas and the Battle of the Little Big Horn in Montana – confrontations where one side vastly outnumbered the other, leading to tragic consequences. Not many outside the Commonwealth of Kentucky, however, have heard of the Siege of Fort Boonesborough.…
History of Reenactment
This year when the boys in blue and gray meet on the grounds of Richmond’s Battlefield Park on August 29th and 30th for the 23rd re-enactment of one of Kentucky’s two major Civil War battles, there will be some new twists added to the usual agenda. Before we get into the specifics of the re-enactment,…
Boogie with us at Dance Party U.S.A.
If you imagine you are hearing faint strains of music in your head, don’t worry….you’re not hallucinating. It just means you are already getting primed for this year’s version of Pops at the Park, the annual event which brings out music-loving locals and visitors alike. This year’s concert – the 41st annual – will be…
Raise a Glass to Kentucky Beer, Live Music, and Animals
August 8th may seem like a long way away, but it’s not too early to put the date on your calendar for the Hops & Vine Festival, an annual event to benefit the Humane Society Animal League for Life of Madison County. While finding forever homes for the county’s homeless pets is the major goal (some of these cute canines and friendly…
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The Vine Opens in Richmond
On May 15th, the hills around Richmond were alive with the Sound of Music as the long-awaited arena The Vine at Chenault Vineyards made its official debut. Following an afternoon ribbon cutting, Nashville-based Lost Saints and Rebecca Lynn Howard took the stage for a night of country music that would have rocked the rafters had…
White Hall: A Tourism Anchor
Cassius Marcellus Clay, crusading newspaper publisher and radical emancipationist, was one of the most fascinating and tempestuous figures in Kentucky’s history. His beloved 44-room Italianate-style mansion, White Hall has had a pretty tempestuous journey itself, and will soon embark on yet another chapter in its story. Sometime in May (the exact date has not yet been announced), the mansion will re-open for visitors under new…
A Taste of the Caribbean in Richmond
When Tonya Dean and her business/life partner Alicia Dean opened their new restaurant in February of this year, they did so with a lot of passion, but also trepidation. “It was scary,” admitted Tonya. “We really didn’t know if we would succeed.” That feeling of fear isn’t exactly a novelty among first time restaurateurs, but…
Walk the Footsteps of Richmond’s Black History
There is no better way to celebrate Black History Month in Richmond than to follow in the footprints of those who have helped make that history. Now you can, thanks to a collaboration between Richmond Tourism Commission and the Madison County Historical Society. Footprints: Traces of Black History in Richmond, Kentucky is a 75-page guide to discovering…
Richmond Celebrates America’s (and its own) Birthday
Have you ever been to a birthday party where approximately 342 million guests have been invited? This July 4th, Americans from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon, from Madison, Wisconsin to Marfa, Texas will gather to pop champagne corks and watch fireworks bedazzle the sky as the U.S. celebrates 250 years. Just think – a quarter…