Tuesday, May 11, 2021
*On 10/26/1803, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set off from the Falls of the Ohio with several men comprising the Corps of Discovery, including William Clark's slave, York.*
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Replica McGee indentured slave cabin |
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Replica cabin at the George Rogers Clark Homesite, where William Clark met up with Meriwether Lewis |
George Rogers Clark was the older brother of William Clark, who was already a famous American Revolutionary War hero. George Rogers Clark also founded Clarksville, IN (formerly Falls of the Ohio) and Louisville, KY. This homesite was his retirement place.
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George Rogers Clark Homesite has a view of the Ohio River (KSS) |
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Across the street was the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Park, with a keelboat structure for children |
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This is why we had to walk to the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Park |
We crossed the Ohio River to Louisville.
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Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere with a statue (1973, by Felix de Weldon) of George Rogers Clark, who is said to be pointing at the city he founded |
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Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere also has a statue (2003, by Ed Hamilton) of York, the slave of William Clark |
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The Red Feather (1975, by Alexander Calder) |
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Unique bicycle rack |
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Outsized copy of the Statue of David (2012, by Serkan Özkaya) that belongs to the 21C Museum Hotel behind him; yes, those are pink penguins on the roofline |
We were able to go online last evening to purchase the required advance tickets for the
Louisville Slugger Museum.
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This 120-foot baseball Louisville Slugger bat (1996) is the second largest bat in the world |
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At the Louisville Slugger Museum, you can hold a bat used by a Major League Baseball player (one from each team) plus six of some of the greatest players |
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Kent holds a bat used by Willie Mays |
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Lego model of the Cincinnati Great American Ball Park stadium (KSS) |
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Tamiko hangs with Jackie Robinson (KSS) |
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Babe Ruth and Kent watch a home run hit |
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A bundle of billets come from the forests and sawmills of the Hillerich & Bradsby Co |
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Many professional baseball players pick out the billets they want to be turned into bats, choosing from ash, maple and and birch |
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Phillies player Didi Gregorius has a variety of billets (KSS) |
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A billet goes into a CNC/computer numeric control woodturning lathe ... |
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The lathe device moves along the billet .. |
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And voilà! you have a baseball bat for the pros |
Other lathe machines make the bats for the rest of us.
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The bats then have to be sanded, have the end knobs cut off, (some bats are cupped), rubbed, stained or painted, (some bats are "burned"), and branded or decaled |
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Arillated: The 21c Pip Mobile aka The Pomegranate Limo (2007, by Monica Mahoney) is owned by the 21C Museum Hotel |
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The Pomegranate Limo is made with red glass arriloid gems |
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Louisville seems to keep building façades in place |
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The building or a reflection of a building? |
Next: Louisville II.
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