Throwback Thursday – Small Town Southern Kentucky is alive and well – News 40 | WNKY Television

Final week, we featured a narrative on the Capitol Theatre in Downtown Bowling Inexperienced, sharing this Renaissance revival of the humanities within the coronary heart of town. However Bowling Inexperienced shouldn’t be experiencing this downtown development alone. Many cities throughout southcentral Kentucky are additionally feeling this new vitality, as if their squares and Essential Streets have woken from a slumber. Let’s check out a few of the new happenings in our southern Kentucky downtowns from the drive on the outdated Dixie Freeway, also called 31 Freeway.

Heading north on the Dixie Freeway to Hart County, discover a Essential Road that involves life longer each first Friday of the month. At Horse Cave to the Nines, Essential Road companies keep open later from April to October, providing themed actions. Horse Cave’s Essential Road is residence to the cave mouth entrance of Hidden River Cave, ziplining throughout the cave entrance bushes, and rappelling down the road on the facet of the cave, so there’s enjoyable available above and under downtown Horse Cave. 

Just a little additional south on the Dixie brings you to Cave Metropolis, whose Essential Road is residence to The Dive bar, 270 Boutique, and the seasonal favourite, Cave Metropolis Vehicles and Espresso. This spring to fall occasion brings over 300 traditional automobiles to Cave Metropolis’s Essential Road on sure Saturdays, establishing for a day-long competition of meals, music, buying, and hanging out. Cave Metropolis is thought for its kitschy fashion, and the nostalgia is felt far and broad.

Head additional east to Glasgow in Barren County, the place you’ll discover a city sq. that’s come to life for Stroll and Store occasions, full with a gastropub brewery and string lights to information the way in which. Glasgow ensures its expertise is “higher within the Barrens.”

Going additional south, cease within the coronary heart of Scottsville for its First Fridays on the Sq. from April to December, with extra particular occasions. You’ll wish to cease at Smiths Grove’s Essential Road too, for the Saturdays in Smiths Grove occasion, with buying alongside vintage row and themed actions each first Saturday of the month from April to November.

Franklin’s sq. involves life through the Summer time Nights live performance collection and its retailers have a good time holidays with themed occasions. And Russellville lately introduced a model new Live performance at Carrico summer season collection from Could to August.

Bowling Inexperienced is within the planning part of creating a Downtown Leisure Vacation spot Heart, that—similar to Owensboro’s Riverfront District, Covington’s Newport on the Levee, Paducah’s Historic District and others statewide—would permit for the managed open carry of alcohol in designated public areas. 

Small city southern Kentucky is alive and properly. That is the sort of factor your pals right here at Throwback Thursday notably like.

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