Discover Kentucky Archaeology
archaeology.ky.gov
archaeology.ky.gov
For anyone geoblocked
[0] https://www.doi.gov/blog/mammoth-cave-explore-worlds-longest....
[0] https://archaeology.ky.gov/Find-a-Site/Pages/Florence.aspx
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Y'all_Water_Tower
I'm not sure Florence has all that much else to recommend it, mind you. Of all the suburban towns surrounding Cincinnati, it's definitely one of them.
Any time we drive to the Ikea in Cinci from KY, we'll get hot wings on the way home.
(My business is known for its chicken wings as well, just comparing notes!)
Mind you, I haven't had them in years and now live almost 7 hours from the nearest Quaker Steak and Lube. My recollection may be flawed.
Our recipe is simple: decent sized wings, deep fried naked, sauced and served. Good sauces matter, of course.
Given how easy that is, it's amazing to me that almost nobody else has good wings (at least around here). I'm not sure what they're doing differently.
Bearno's is probably my favorite pizza ever. I've since moved all over the US, and haven't found a damn thing that comes close in taste or style. It's definitely a love/hate relationship...you either love a billion tiny meatballs, or don't.
In fact, pizza aside, Louisville punches wayyyy above its weight in food. I guess I took it for granted, and assumed every city was like that. Nope, not even close.
Re: pizza, apparently people in Ohio call it Dayton style pizza. Marion's looks a lot like Bearnos, but I've never tried it!
Bearnos as a company is pretty scummy(see footnote), else I'd try to franchise one where I live. I'd love to know their suppliers and processes to start a competitor, one day.
Footnote: I left Louisville for good exactly 2 days after their Hepatitis admission. They went on the news promising to make it right and pay.
I got a shot, out of pocket. Talked to 'management' at the location and they had no idea what I was talking about, then told me to quit worrying about it. I pressed on and submitted receipts, kept following up. Never saw a dime. But worse, they knew they were lying. Claimed to not receive anything, but I had copies so emailed it. Every person directed you to someone else, impossible to reach because 'theyre busy.' After 3 weeks or so of their game, I just gave up as it was costing me more of my time than money I'd ever see.
Might make sense for like, Google, not a tiny little pizza company with a few locations.
I'm not even mad about the money... I'm mad they had the nerve to make an announcement they had no intention of following up on.
See: https://www.wlky.com/article/bearnos-pizza-employee-diagnose...
Louisville punching above its weight in cuisine is another one of those topics I find I have to try to explain to outsiders. It comes up a lot in cost of living discussions around the possibility of a relocation plan to potential jobs in interviews. I know and appreciate that I have been incredibly spoiled. I've had fantastic meals made by Beard Award Winning Chefs and that wasn't a gala I RSVPed months in advance, that was just an ordinary Friday night where I walked in to their restaurant without a reservation and snagged a table or a bar stool. I rarely think to even get reservations more than a day or two in advance, even for some of the fanciest places in town.
I've seen statistics from various food magazines that rank Louisville as high as third behind NYC and LA for number of high rated restaurants per capita and I believe those statistics. I've been in other cities and have heard people ask with awe and reverence if I've ever tried various Louisville fixtures because their reputation proceeds them or because the head chef of some other restaurant "studied" there for a time. I do think I'm incredibly spoiled.
But yeah, also still a lovely place for remote work, if you can get it, given the cost of living/quality of life.
Two meteor craters are visible as "broken windows". Middlesboro crater in the extreme southeast and Jeptha Knob near Frankfort (north central).
Louisa KY was home of the first Needle Dam (and locks) in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_dam
Torchlight KY produced "torchlight coal" which made its way from Eastern KY to major rivers all up and down the East coast. And a very small, "wide spot in the road" community, Aflex KY was once a model coal camp and had a lot of conveniences. See two PDFs in my drive for articles on each of these subjects from a trade publication called The Black Diamond https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NDl85xvgmyiqVbq8dTe4...
Coal mining funded everything in Eastern KY and you can learn more about "coal camps" and the history at https://coalcampusa.com/eastky/eastky.htm
The Pikeville cut-through was the second largest earth moving project in the western hemisphere -- behind the Panama Canal -- until the big dig in Boston. Still in the top 3! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikeville_Cut-Through
We have the grand canyon of the south at breaks interstate park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaks_Interstate_Park
Home to one of the most famous feuds ever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield%E2%80%93McCoy_feud
We have our fair share of superfund sites... couple are interesting:
We had a huge superfund site as famous as love canal... "Valley of the Drums" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Drums
We have a nuclear waste dump that had / has plutonium disposed there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxey_Flats
Full list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_Ken...
Where were you from / when did you leave? I have not lived in Louisa since 2003.
My mom worked at Blaine Elementary and of course I had my fair share of frozen cokes from Dee's through the later half of the 90's.
The request is blocked.
0kEE0YwAAAADSrOoEHVCAQrfsFyH2VJaQR1JVMzBFREdFMDgyMQBjZTgwMzljZS04NTZjLTRkYzktYjgwZC02MzlhMDg1MmY4Mzk=Particularly because mostly forgotten webpages like this one are an attractive nuisance for black hats, banning foreign IP’s was probably a best-practice argument.
There’s also the possibility that a sudden uptick in activity (HN slashsot effect) triggered an internal mechanism.
And politically, I suspect there wouldn’t be a lot of pushback to any of it.
But I could be wrong.
works just fine from Canada?
Stare Archeology websites don’t have the same incentives for IT attention…I mean the one here isn’t even very “Web2.0”.
What's the encoding and/or content all about?
what would be accomplished by geoblocking a states's tourism site?
Isn't the core point of state sites like this to attract tourists? Does geoblocking them help with this goal?
Some years ago Arizona paid to put very large advertisements in downtown Toronto (Canada) to attract cold candians in the winter... things like that may work, geoblocking certainly wont.
Avoiding GDPR compliance problems?
The UK GDPR sets out seven key principles: - Lawfulness, fairness and transparency. - Purpose limitation. - Data minimisation. - Accuracy. - Storage limitation. - Integrity and confidentiality (security) - Accountability.
Dont keep track of any user info and you should be OK?
Many of the blocked countries dont have GDPR regulations, so there is that.
There is also the vast majority of US government sites which are not geoblocked.
https://kentucky.gov/Pages/home.aspx - works just fine from Canada?
Is there a compelling reason besides being friendly? Like treaties or something?
edit: and i'll add that the team who put the site together is long gone and the people who maintain content (if any) have no idea what geoblocking even is. So don't bother sending them an email...