Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Daisy Holt's Driveway, Princeton, KY - Apr 24-30
Daisy is a dear friend from CO who moved back to her childhood home after retiring. She is slowly renovating it -- when we last visited her, she was living in a trailer next to the house. She has since added a wing with kitchen, living room, and bedroom, as well as a bathroom to the original house and is living in these new quarters. The original house was a log cabin with an outhouse. Daisy plans to reconstruct the house and incorporate it into her living quarters.Click here for More AQS Pictures
Our visit coincided with the American Quilter's Society (AQS) Quilt Show & Contest in Paducah. If you like quilts, this is THE event to attend -- this year 420 quilts were judged from 854 total entries from around the world (the Best in Show was from Saudi Arabia -- that country's only entry). There are also vendors of everything imaginable that is connected in any way to quilting, and you are tempted at every one. 
We succumbed to temptation and each bought fabric for "planned" projects. We spent two days at various events in Paducah connected with the Quilt Show, including visiting the Natl Quilt Museum and an Antique Quilt Show.We also visited Smithland, where we saw the historic Smithland mansion, which is no longer open to visitors. We rode a ferry across the Ohio River to Cave in Rock State Park in IL.
The cave was used by outlaws (sort of river highwaymen) in the early days but is now just an interesting place to visit. We also drove to Elizabethtown, home of the historic Rose Hotel (oldest continuously operating hotel in IL up to 1967 when it closed -- it has since been renovated and reopened), with a lovely setting overlooking the Ohio River.
We went to a planetarium show at the Land Between the Lakes (LBL) to see images from the Hubble Space Telescope. LBL is a Natl Rec Area, located between Kentucky Lake & Barkley Lake in Western KY & TN and administered by the Forest Service. It has many areas of interest and many places to camp. We have been here before and will surely return again. We enjoyed our time with Daisy very much and hope to return in the near future.
# posted by Doug and Willie @ 6:01 PM 
