The new sight and Sound theater presenting a reprise of the Pennsylvania counterpart's Noah certainly is having its effect> We have three tours slated for Branson this year.
Sept. 10-13, sponsored by Incarnation Cathokic Church, Louisville; Oct. 16-18, sponsored by Memorial Methodist Church, Elizabethtown and Nov. 17-20, a Christmas trip, sponsored by Cecilia Bank with branches in Elizabethtown and other cities. For details call 324-0075, a Louisville number.
A GREAT LITTLE TRIP THAT FEATUREs A GREAT INN AND WONDERFUL ATTRACTIONS and a hit with last year's patrons will be duplicated this year for Incarnation Church. A Kentucky Pride two-day tour to a host of attractions to Augusta, Maysville, Washington and in Fleming County, Kentucky June 2-3. A scenic drive north of Lexington to Augusta and the Rosemary Clooney museum opened by former Lt. Governor Stephen Henry and his wife Heather Renee French Henry, Miss America in 2000, in Rosemary's former Kentucky home. The museum includes material from the Clooney family plus a room of Heather's gowns and collections from her reign as Miss America. The museum fronts on the Ohio River in a beautiful setting.
We enjoy a buffet lunch in the nearby Parkview Inn before another scenic drive -- 30 minutes -- paralleling the Ohio River to Maysville. There, two trolleys and guides await to show us the sights of Maysville, including a stop at the theater where Rosemary Clooney (born and schooled in Maysville) required her first movie be premiered, and most recently prmiering "Leatherheads," a museum stop and a unique general store stop. Afterwards we drive into the country to a 1740 farmhouse, now the site of the McGee Bakery, specializing in transparent tarts and pies. You get a chance to don an apron and help fix supper after touring the farm house. Your bed awaits in the self-styled luxury hotel The French Quarter Inn, downtown, overlooking the Ohio River, a great experience. Time for a moonlit stroll on the river bank.
Tuesday we will have an early start at Kentucky pioneer life at Washington including a one-room "fort" where a couple and their 14 children lived, and the Harriet Beacher Stowe museum, dedicated to the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, partly based on her experiences with slavery and the underground railroad from Washington/Maysville. We then move southerly to Fleming County and visit two covered bridges before returning to Louisville.