It’s a blue island in a red state, Kentucky’s only city with a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s municipal equality index. A city that identifies as both Midwestern and Southern, depending on who you ask. It’s the home of the Kentucky Derby, the most exciting two minutes in sports it’s where Muhammad ‘sting like a bee’ Ali threw his first jab and it’s where Louisville Slugger turns the trunk of a tree into the weapon of choice for legendary baseball players past and present.Ībove all, Louisville is a city of surprises. Today it’s a city of pulled pork and Derby Pie, intertwining the best of Southern and Midwestern influences. The city refused to join with its southern neighbors during the Civil War and instead served as a terminus on the Underground Railroad and during the Prohibition era, it produced 80 percent of the country’s whiskey - an oaky, vanilla-scented elixir you know as Bourbon. Founded in 1778 and named for a French King as thanks for his troops’ assistance in the Revolutionary War, Louisville’s rule-breaking history is firmly rooted in our country’s origins. Louisville is a city with a fascinating past and flourishing present.

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