Bourbon, bluegrass and horse racing, plus the home of a sporting legend, are some of the many reasons to visit Kentucky. Even though it’s known as the “front porch” to the South, its pretty white clapboard towns seem more attached to the north, nestling in undulating green pasture, and the state was officially neutral during the civil war.
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Kentucky, the Bluegrass State
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28/09/2015 .Andy Mossack goes Exploring Kentucky’s historic towns and discovers the underground railroad, Newport gangsters and Muhamad Ali’s boyhood home.
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02/09/2013This entry was posted in Kentucky, Louisville, Newsletter, North America, USA and tagged muhammad Ali, Muhammad Ali's boyhood home., Muhammad Ali's Louisville on .This was the Muhammad Ali boyhood home and I was standing right outside the front door having a moment.There’s a small clapboard house in an ordinary residential street in a predominantly black area on the west side of Louisville, Kentucky.
It has seen better days that’s for sure, but to the people who still live there, it’s home. There’s a small front lawn dominated by an old big tree and the little garden out back has a little rusted bike lying on its side. Its all unremarkable, but 63 years ago a very remarkable young man grew up there and became one of the most famous men in the whole world.