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Bardstown,
KY – September 2015 / Newsmaker Alert / Beer and bourbon, crafts and
colors, spirit tours and ghost walks – Bardstown has a fall event for everyone,
including shoppers, crafters, runners, aficionados of fine bourbon and
craft beer and fans of a good, old-fashioned mystery.
See
Bardstown’s Calendar
of Events for details.
Get
festing
Browse
among the jewelry, pottery, wearables, florals, wood items and antiques
of over 200 artists and craftsmen during the 35th Annual Bardstown Arts,
Crafts & Antiques Fair on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 10-11. Enjoy
candy apples, homemade fudge, pork chop sandwiches and more; watch dancers
and cloggers; let the kids paint pumpkins or visit the face painting booth;
and listen to live music – all in a setting of beautiful historic homes
on tree-lined streets. www.BardstownArtsAndCraftsFair.com
Make
mud pies. Slingshot pumpkins. Navigate the hay maze and take a hayride.
Enjoy these activities and more during Bernheim Forest’s ColorFest,
a fall family fave that takes place on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 17-18,
in the midst of Bernheim’s autumn-colored landscape. Live music, hands-on
nature activities, unique local foods, Kentucky arts and craft vendors
and more add to the fun of this free event. www.Bernheim.org
A tasting
of more than 30 domestic and imported craft beers gets underway on Saturday,
Oct. 17, during the 3rd Annual Craft Beer Festival. Head to the
Bardstown Farmer’s Market Pavilion to sample the suds and dine on local
fare accompanied by live music. Participants receive a commemorative pilsner
tasting glass. Visit www.BardstownCraftBeerFest.com
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More
fall fun
Other
fall fun in Bardstown includes communing with the spirits. Take a turn
at the divining rods during family-friendly, 90-minute “Visit with the
Spirits of Wickland” tours led by a psychic medium on Friday nights. (Saturdays
added in October.) On Saturday nights, take a Ghost Trek with internationally
known paranormal investigator Patti Starr through the streets, alleys and
Pioneer Cemetery of Bardstown in search of spectral evidence. Bring camera,
audio recorders and camcorders. (Fridays added in October.)
Kentucky
Railway Museum’s Murder Mystery Theatre offers excursions with a decidedly
deadly twist on Sept. 19, Oct. 24 and Nov. 21. Dinner and the play begin
at Sherwood Inn (adjacent to the museum) and continue aboard the train.
It’s murder most foul along with a four-course gourmet dinner served in
a restored, vintage dining car aboard My Old Kentucky Dinner Train’s two-and-a-half-hour
Murder Mystery excursions: Sept. 26, Oct. 24 and Nov. 28.
Book
a fall getaway
Choose
your fun and get away to Bardstown for fall. Click www.VisitBardstown.com
for more information about these events and to find your perfect overnight
among Bardstown’s well-known chain hotels and 17 bed and breakfasts – including
ones near Bardstown’s bustling Court Square and ones that accommodate families
traveling with children.
Media
Contact:
Dawn
Przystal, Vice President, 800-638-4877 x 114
Bardstown-Nelson
County Tourist & Convention Commission
Photo:
It’s murder most foul amidst lots of fall color on My Old Kentucky Dinner
Train’s upcoming Murder Mystery excursions.
Credit:
Bardstown-Nelson County Tourist & Convention Commission
Hi-
and Low-Res photos available.
About
Bardstown, KY
Located
in the heart of Kentucky Bourbon Country and situated at the trailhead
of the famed Kentucky Bourbon Trail®, Bardstown
is more familiarly known as the “Bourbon Capital of the World.” It is home
to six distilleries, including Barton 1792 and Willett Distillery, and
these four Kentucky Bourbon Trail® distilleries: Heaven Hill, Maker’s
Mark, Jim Beam and Four Roses’ second campus. Major attractions include
the outdoor musical, “The Stephen Foster Story,” My Old Kentucky Home State
Park, the highly regarded Civil War Museum of the Western Theatre, My Old
Kentucky Dinner Train, The Kentucky Railway Museum and Whisky Magazine’s
Visitor Attraction of the Year – the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History.
Additionally, Bardstown has four 18-hole golf courses, three wineries,
two haunted tours and numerous religious attractions. Fodor picked Bardstown
as one of “America’s Best Small Towns” and AARP named it one of its “10
best small towns.” It led TheCultureTrip.com’s list of the “10 Most Beautiful
Towns in Kentucky” and was named the “Most Beautiful Small Town in America”
in the Rand McNally/USA Today 2012 “Best of the Road” contest. Bardstown
landed in the top 20 of “America’s Favorite Towns” by Travel + Leisure
– which also recognized it as having one of “America’s Most Beautiful Town
Squares.” In 2013, Bardstown was designated a certified Kentucky Cultural
District, one of only six Kentucky cities to achieve this honor. www.facebook.com/BardstownKY |
