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Louisville Trip, 26-29 August 2019

Louisville Trip, 26-29 August 2019

Ever since I started to do some work for Emee’s event planning business last year, I’ve been travelling more than I used to. This is due to the nature of the biz, since hotels, chambers of commerce, travel bureaus, and the like are eager to bring us out to places in order to show us around and get business. There’s also some planning conferences that we get invited to. This is why we ended up…

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The Frazier History Museum is a cornerstone of downtown Louisville. Located on museum row, it is a place where you can go and learn about Kentucky’s proud history. Visit to experience the wonderment of Frazier’s live educational performances, and stay to travel back in time with historical figures answering questions about their lives. The “teaching artists” at the Frazier never break character so that you are fully immersed in the history of their time.

Do you know the history of the Frazier?

The founder of the Frazier, Owsley Brown Frazier, was an avid historic gun and knife collector. His weapon collection began with a gift from his grandfather. A long rifle that was built in Bardstown, Kentucky in 1820. It was eventually lost in a tornado, but it was sparked Frazier’s Interest in historic weapons. As his collection grew in size, he would take ownership of famous weapons like Theodore Roosevelt’s “Big Stick.”

In 2000, he was asked to present his collection in an exhibit that thousands of people attended. This surprised Frazier and lead him to open up a more long-term exhibit. After purchasing some former warehouses, he opened up the museum which was originally called the Frazier Historical Arms Museum. It went through several names changes such as the Frazier International History Museum after the museum displayed part of Britain’s collection but now is known as the Frazier History Museum.

The Frazier is now in the midst of planning a bourbon history exhibit and they will be engaging in a partnership with the Kentucky Distillers’ Association, becoming the official starting point of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. Until then, enjoy the Spirits of the Bluegrass: Prohibition and Kentucky exhibit that highlights the rise and fall of the temperance movement.

To experience our rich history just take a LouVelo bike to our Zirmed station on 8th and W.Market street. Walk north one block and head east on Main St. Don’t forget to show your LouVelo membership card to the attendant. All LouVelo members get $2.00 off general admission.

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This week, we will explore our most popular hub, Preston and Witherspoon, situated on the northern tip of Louisville Slugger Field.

Home to the Louisville Bats, our baseball team, and Louisville City FC, our soccer team!

The Louisville Slugger Baseball Bat is iconic in Louisville as much as the hot brown and our domed skyline. Legend goes that a seventeen-year-old John A. “Bud” Hillerich played hooky one day from work in 1884 and stole away to a baseball game where his favorite player, Pete Browning, was losing. When his bat snapped after a losing streak, Bud approached Browning and offered to find him something better. He brought - back to his father’s woodworking shop and produced what would become the Louisville Slugger bat, built from one solid plank of wood. And the rest, they say, is history, baseball fans!

The Bats have a full schedule for the summer, with three home games just this week! The Bats face off against the Buffalo Bisons in three games on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Louisville City Football Club’s next skirmish is July 29th, squaring off with sister city Cincinnati. For more scheduled games and events, check out Do502.

It’s rare to find the Waterfront this peaceful!

A short ride away is beautiful Waterfront Park, running along the edge of the Ohio River. Filled with bike-friendly paths, long skylines and stretching green lawns, Waterfront Park plays host to most of Louisville’s rocking music festivals, field days and even famous Thunder Over Louisville. When it isn’t packed with baseball fans and concert-goers, the park is pleasant and spacious, and a great place to soak in the southern sunshine.

Last week was the legendary Forecastle Festival, which drew record crowds. Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo even rode one of our bikes across the stage!

had a great day! here's a pic of rivers cuomo entering the stage on a green bike pic.twitter.com/CQ1dlLlEvB

— comic xans (@bailzsz) July 17, 2017

Bypassing any potential parking issues, biking is the perfect solution to come to these great events, and the Preston & Witherspoon station is perfectly close.

We still have our partnership running with Against the Grain, which is an easy walk or ride up one block from Preston & Witherspoon. Simply flash your LouVelo membership card to receive 10% off appetizers after your waterfront adventure.

Want to see what other hubs we’ve featured? Click here.

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SOUTH SLUGGER FIELD

For our first Hub of the Week, we’ll be looking at Jackson & Main Street.  What is LouVelo’s Hub of the Week?  It is where we look at one of our unique bike hubs and its surrounding sites, interests and intrigue.

We are fortunate to have two stations on either side of Slugger Field at the north and south corners. This week we will be discussing the southern hub, right on the corner of Jackson Street and Main Street. It’s a popular station in our system, and offers 23 docks. It is especially easy for our Monthly and Annual members, who get unlimited 60 minute rides to just roll in, dock, and pick back up again later to continue their adventure.

Take the opportunity to cruise into Against the Grain (or ATG, as it is lovingly known) on your next ride. This brew pub is located ideally inside Louisville Slugger’s brick gate and started in 2011 by artisan brewers Sam Cruz, Jerry Gnangy, Adam Watson, and restaurateur Andrew Scott. ATG has grown to craft over a hundred brews, mostly made in their Victorian copper distilleries on site. When you go inside, you can peer up over the brick walls and see the tops of the distilleries, hard at work on your next draft.

Against the Grain, as the name implies, prides itself as the first brewer owned-and-operated pub in Louisville, committed to brewing anything from a pilsner to a lager using unusual combinations and ingredients. While Artisan beer is delicious, it is not the only thing that keeps baseball fans and brewery buffs alike streaming in its doors. Delicious food has a lot to do with it, too. The LouVelo crew took advantage of the close proximity to our hub and wheeled in to do some appetizers for lunch. Between the bleu-cheese crumbled chicken wings, the nachos, and the salted pretzel-- it is at a baseball stadium-- we left with a home run.

Ground was broken in 1998 on the site that would become Louisville Slugger Field, which was a former train yard. Some of the design has retained, including the entrance into the stands, which was a restored train shed. It really does give the feeling that the stadium is as old as the tradition of baseball. 

Home to the Louisville Bats, our baseball team, and Louisville City FC, our soccer team, hanging out with our buddy, hall-of-famer Pee Wee Reese.

After opening in 2000, Slugger Field has been home to the Louisville Bats, our minor league team. Besides people-watching with a hot dog, there is a great variety of things to do at Slugger Field, playing host to concerts like Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, and John Mellancamp. The architecture is fun and nostalgic, and you can smell the popcorn from miles away.

While baseball has long been an institution in Louisville, Slugger Field’s new tenants have international flair. The Louisville City Football Club (or, FC, or soccer for us colonial rebels) moved in in March of 2015, making this sports haven a visit for any fan.

Want to go check it out for yourself? Look to the right while going west down Main Street and dock in. 

We teamed up with @atgbrewery- Against the Grain to give our Monthly, Annual, and Founding Members a special deal on their tasty appetizers. 

Just flash your card and get 10% off any appetizer. Yum!