I am thankful to live in the city of Louisville. There are a
lot of stereotypes about Kentucky, where I live, but usually Louisville doesn’t
represent a stereotypical picture of Kentucky (unless it’s Derby time, and then
we all go along with it, for some reason.) Louisville is a pretty cool place to
live. My city contains about a fourth of the state’s population. I like
visiting the country (or more rural areas of the state), but I like being in
Louisville, most of the time. We have lots of hospitals here. We have
semi-decent weather (no hurricanes, not as many tornadoes as some areas of the
country, no volcanoes that I know of, even though that’s geological and not
meteorological.) Louisville has some very diverse neighborhoods. I have visited
parts of the east end, where all the gigantic mansions are (and where Papa John
himself lives.) We have an OK airport- better than any other airport in the
state, I assume (are there other airports in the state?) We have 19 libraries,
several colleges and universities, a wonderful zoo, a race track (not really my
thing, but whatever), a baseball bat factory, an arms museum that has turned
into a “history” museum (the name change made it sound less violent, but it’s
still full of swords and guns and stuff), and a ton of other weird little
places that are historically significant. Like the home of Joshua Speed,
Abraham Lincoln’s BFF. And we have the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, where
a president is buried (three guesses as to which one.) We have the Derby
museum, too, and I think we have some kind of Muhammad Ali thing around here
somewhere, since this is where he’s from. We have a new arena and lots of flea
markets. The state fair is held here, too, if you’re into that sort of thing.
There are tons of awesome restaurants and interesting stores here, too. I
haven’t eaten at all of them (or even half of them), but I have a list of ones
I’d like to visit. I have a feeling if I lived in one of the more rural areas
of the state, I wouldn’t have access to those sorts of things.
So I am thankful that I live in Louisville, even if our
allergies are really bad because we live in the Ohio valley, and even though
people who live here will literally beat each other up if the NCAA tournament
conditions are right, and even though for some reason everyone assumes we are
missing lots of teeth and don’t wear shoes. That’s only true about some cities.
Anyway, I’m thankful that if I have to live in Kentucky, I live here in
Louisville, and I’m thankful for all the things my city has to offer.
Here is the city from the river.
Churchill Downs
The Louisville Science Center
The Louisville Slugger Museum
A random horse in a field.
My rhino buddy at the zoo
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