Aside from horse racing and fried chicken, what is Kentucky known for?

Answer 1

blue grass music, National Quilt Museum is there, they have a large art colony, I forgot the name of the town.

Answer 2

Kentucky has very beautiful scenery, great hunting and fishing. Lexington, Louisville and the Florence area are vibrant modern cities. High dollar horseflesh is bred and raised there as well as raced and there is a strong agricultural business also. There are large automotive manufacturing plants for both foreign and domestic makes. There are a number of large lakes that are excellent outdoor sporting venues.

Answer 3

* Cumberland Gap, chief passageway through the Appalachian Mountains in early American history.
* Cumberland Falls State Park, the only place in the Western Hemisphere where a "moon-bow" may be seen.[10]
* Mammoth Cave National Park, featuring the world's longest cave system.[11]
* Red River Gorge Geological Area, part of the Daniel Boone National Forest.
* Land Between the Lakes, a National Recreation Area managed by the United States Forest Service.
* Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest a 14,000 acre (57 km²) arboretum, forest and nature preserve located in Clermont.
* Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site in Hodgenville.
* Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area near Whitley City.
* Trail of Tears National Historic Trail also passes through Kentucky.
* Black Mountain, state's highest point.[2] Runs along the border of Harlan and Letcher counties.
* Bad Branch Falls State Nature Preserve, 2,639-acre state nature preserve on southern slope of Pine Mountain in Letcher County. Includes one of the largest concentrations of rare and endangered species in the state[12], as well as a 60-foot waterfall and a Kentucky Wild River.
* Jefferson Memorial Forest, located south of Louisville in the Knobs region, the largest municipally run forest in the United States.[13]
* Green River State Park, located in Taylor County.
* Lake Cumberland, 1255 miles of shoreline located in South Central Kentucky.

Answer 4

Great Revival (Asbury Kentucky)
Tobacco Farms & Coal mines

Answer 5

Rednecks and my severely overweight (too much fried chicken) hillbilly cousin ANDY! BIG ANDY THAT IS! Other then that probably the Blue Grass. Music and the grass... ? Right? Okay I need to chill.

Answer 6

Only known moon bow (rainbow that happens over the waterfalls at night) in this part of the world, mammoth cave (largest cave system in the world), bourbon, coal mines, marijuana (sadly), and has a high case of poverty in the south eastern part of the state.

Also, statistically it has the largest percentage of smokers than any other US state. But, I love it here anyway!

Answer 7

Bourbon and the Gold Depository at Fort Knox.

Answer 8

Daniel Boone.

Answer 9

Corvettes , makers mark, moonshine,blue grass, both presidents in civil war where born here( Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis) its one the nations leading coal producers. one of the 2 worlds only moon bows, mammoth cave, university ky basketball, major faultline in Ky,

Answer 10

bourbon
"...the drink is associated strongly with that state...."
( the drink....was named after a county in the allegheny mountains--bourbon county--which was named after a french royal family)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_whiskey


although "bluegrass"
was named after bill monroe's band
the "blue grass boys"
...and bill's from rosine, kentucky,
bluegrass music is really a form
of "american roots music"
which itself is derived from english, irish, and scottish traditional music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluegrass_music


ain't nothin' wrong w/kentucky, though.