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Kentucky Farm Bureau's Bluegrass & Backroads is a television program produced by Kentucky Farm Bureau, based in Louisville, Kentucky. The half-hour program focused on interesting cultural, historical, and artistic aspects of the Bluegrass State. The program had several hosts and producers during its 14-season run.
The annual Kentucky Highland Renaissance Festival continues June 8 and 9, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. with artists, merchants, food, drink and merriment. 955 Elm St. in Eminence, Ky. $15-$85. kyrenfaire.com
The Bill Monroe Farm is a historic farm attributed to being the birthplace of Bill Monroe, creator of the bluegrass music genre. The farm is 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2) and is located near Rosine in Ohio County, Kentucky. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. [2]
Ashland is the name of the plantation of the 19th-century Kentucky statesman Henry Clay, [2] located in Lexington, Kentucky, in the central Bluegrass region of the state. The buildings were built by slaves who also grew and harvested hemp, farmed livestock, and cooked and cleaned for the Clays.
Before European-American settlement, various cultures of Indigenous peoples of the Americas lived in the region. The pre-colonization state of the Bluegrass is poorly known, but it is thought to have been a type of savannah known as oak savanna, with open grassland containing clover, giant river cane (a type of bamboo), and scattered enormous trees, primarily bur oak, blue ash, Shumard's oak ...
This is the Feb. 5 edition of the Bluegrass Politics newsletter. Sign up here to get the latest news from the Kentucky General Assembly delivered to your inbox for free.. Happy Part II of the 2025 ...
In 2014, Gary Brewer and the Kentucky Ramblers took over hosting the Friday Night Bluegrass concert series in Shepherdsville, KY. [8] This series highlights local, national, and regional acts each week. Gary Brewer and the Kentucky Ramblers perform in each show themselves and feature a guest band.
Since the 1950s and early 1960s, 90% of Kentucky bluegrass seed in the United States has been produced on specialist farms in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. During the 1990s [ citation needed ] botanists began experimenting with hybrids of Poa pratensis and Texas bluegrass ( P. arachnifera ), with the goal of creating a drought and heat ...