Ohio, Kentucky's neighbor to the north, also has a rich archaeological record. The Ohio Archaeological Society's journal is archived here: https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/55832 Fascinating read for anyone interested in this topic.
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Louisa KY on Hacker News I cannot believe it. How is it going up there these days?
Well I am not there but they are quite proud of Noah Thompson winning american idol. Where were you from / when did you leave? I have not lived in Louisa since 2003.
My dad grew up there and my Grandmother lived there until she passed. We still have some friends up there but it's been quite some time since I've visited. I have great memories of visiting in the summer during the 80's, buying ice cream at Dee's. My family is originally from Blaine. I had wanted to go to the Septemberfest this year but couldn't. Small world.
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That's the whole Midwest, for some odd reason. As a Linux guy since childhood, I've always had to find remote work.
I worked for a big company in Louisville and we wrote .NET on Macs and deployed on Linux via Docker.
That sounds incredibly frustrating, to be honest.
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Well I am not there but they are quite proud of Noah Thompson winning american idol. Where were you from / when did you leave? I have not lived in Louisa since 2003.
My dad grew up there and my Grandmother lived there until she passed. We still have some friends up there but it's been quite some time since I've visited. I have great memories of visiting in the summer during the 80's, buying ice cream at Dee's. My family is originally from Blaine. I had wanted to go to the Septemberfest this year but couldn't. Small world.
Very small world, indeed.
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.
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My dad grew up there and my Grandmother lived there until she passed. We still have some friends up there but it's been quite some time since I've visited. I have great memories of visiting in the summer during the 80's, buying ice cream at Dee's. My family is originally from Blaine. I had wanted to go to the Septemberfest this year but couldn't. Small world.
Very small world, indeed. 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.
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I was born and raised in Florence. I've always been fascinated by how widely the water tower is known; as far away as Boston I've had someone remark on it upon learning that I'm from there. 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.
Florence has one of my favorite roadside eateries: the Quaker Steak & Lube! (known for their chicken wings, lol) Any time we drive to the Ikea in Cinci from KY, we'll get hot wings on the way home.
Huh, I never knew Quaker Steak & Lube had spread that far. I lived in Sharon, PA for most of the 80s, and worked a couple blocks from the original restaurant. Decent wings, if a bit too focused on heat level ("atomic wings"). Nice lunch joint - of course, the pickings were pretty thin in Sharon.
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I don't think Wick's has ever been in the top spot in Louisville pizza. The last Impellizerri's just forever closed (in N'Albany), sadly, but Bearno's was always better than Wick's. (People are welcome to fight me on that. Wick's gets higher rated in people's heads sometimes simply because of its proximity to bars and usefulness as drunk food. Take off the drunk goggles and its not as good as you think.) Then there's…
You're right...Wick's has always been overrated(and overpriced). 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.
I've had a weird time explaining "Louisville Style" pizza to outsiders or that Louisville is a bit of a "pizza nexus" where all the styles of pizza meet and mingle. No matter the style of pizza that I want, I can find someone to sell it to me. But the "home" style that Bearno's/Wick's/Boomboz/Impellizerri's (RIP) build I don't know where else to find that and describing it is tough. ("It seems thin like New York style, but it is thicker than that because it has to hold all the toppings not just cheese and maybe pepperoni, something truly supreme like half a deli and a full salad. Yet it also isn't crispy like a cracker like Cincinnati style or [shiver] St. Louis style.") I found a pizza place one time in DC that was really close. I don't know if I could find it again. I've also lived in pizza deserts on the West Coast where the choices were nothing but Papa Johns and Pizza Hut for miles (both headquartered in Louisville, which is its own weird thing; truly a "pizza nexus"). So many cities think they know what pizza is and what the best kind is. Not everyone believes me that I think Louisville figured it out: the best kind of pizza is always whatever kind of pizza that you want today (feel like Chicago style or Detroit style or New York style today? go for it!), but the second best kind is a hybrid inspired by all of those and has to go toe to toe with all of those that I don't think exists anywhere but Louisville. I don't expect many people to believe me that have never lived in Louisville, and despite the big power chains being from Louisville, there's nobody who has felt like exporting "our" pizza and no one even knows there is a "Louisville style". It's fascinating.
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I agree that it's amusing as a joke made in context with friends over a beer. Not so much where the primary audience is the globe.
"The globe" won't remember the difference between Kentucky and Nebraska two days from now. They'll just remember that flyover states DGAF about people from other nations. My state got painted with that brush just as yours did. Instead of sitting in Louisville and taking this enormous silly offense you've taken (which seriously is like somebody in suburban St Louis caping up to steal the valor of the Winter's Bone fam…
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