Wednesday, May 12, 2021
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| Fort Knox, KY was a couple miles off our planned route |
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Fort Knox Bullion Depository (1936) is where about half
of the US Treasury gold reserve and other metal bullion
(bulk precious metals) are stored in a secure facility |
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| Paducah, KY: Lewis & Clark Historical Marker Side A |
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| Lewis & Clark Historical Marker Side B |
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| On the Trail of Discovery (2006, by George Lundeen) |
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Meriwether Lewis with his dog, Seaman,
for whom he paid $20, while William Clark paid
only $5 for the land that was to becomes Paducah |
Actually, William Clark paid $5 for the deed transfer of the 37,000 acres that belonged to his brother, George Rogers Clark.
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Generic First Peoples with the girl
holding the United States flag of 1803 |
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William Clark holds a map that the sculptor
used artistic license to include Paducah,
a town he founded in 1827 |
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After seeing the quilt squares painted on barns and buildings,
we decided to visit the National Quilt Museum (1991) |
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| Slow Motion (2014, by Sonia Grasvik) with spirals! |
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| Silk Road Sampler (2016, by Melissa Sobotka) |
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Golden Glow (1999, by Mildred Sorrells)
is specified to be hand-quilted |
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| Golden Glow detail |
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| Embers (2015, by Stephanie Ruyle) |
While museum rules do not allow flash photography, this quilt had a sign asking you to please use a flash!
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| Embers taken with a flash |
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Pattern Fusion #15: Motherboard 6 (2014, by
Arturo Alonzo Sandoval) who uses recycled
materials including microfiche film |
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| Pattern Fusion #15: Motherboard 6 detail |
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| The Beatles Quilt (1998, by Pat Holly and Sue Nickels) (KSS) |
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Wisteria (2008, by Mark Sherman) is based on
a stained glass window by Louis Comfort Tiffany |
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Love Birds (2002, by Pat Campbell);
who says a patchwork quilt must be symmetrical?! |
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Vintage Rose Garden (2005, by Betty Ford Smith)
is a small pine cone quit |
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| Vintage Rose Garden detail |
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| William Clark Market House (1905) |
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| Floodwall mural of the Market House |
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Paducah's Wall to Wall Murals (starting in 1998,
by Robert Dafford and Herb Roe) on the floodwall |
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Floodwall mural of William Clark (or is it his agent
George Woolfolk?) surveying the future Paducah |
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The Tennessee River (greenish) merges
with the muddy Ohio River at Paducah |
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Another skinny bridge crossing, but this
one was long (!); the Metropolis Bridge (1929)
is a one-mile ten-span through truss bridge |
*On 11/11/1803, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark arrive at Fort Massac to meet eight soldiers from Tennessee who had volunteered for the Corps of Discovery, but they did not show. A local woodsman, George Drouillard, was hired to track down these men. In the end, only two of the soldiers were hired for the expedition, along with George Drouillard himself!* |
| Fort Massac with a view of the Ohio River |
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Um, a statue (1907, by Leon Hermant)
of George Rogers Clark (!), who is honored
for capturing the Northwest Territory |
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| But for what is Metropolis really famous?! |
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| Statue (1993) of Superman replaced a 1986 version |
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Another statue of Superman on the
Super Museum (1993) |
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Kent helps Super Big Boy hold up a
Big Boy Double-Deck Hamburger |
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| A chunk of Kryptonite |
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| Dinner was at Fat Edd's tonight |
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A lighthouse (2014) on the Ohio River is called Hope Light,
and is the world's first lighthouse built to fight cancer |
Next: Lewis & Clark Trip Day 6.
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