For Release: Sept. 4, 2006
Jan. 2, 2007
Viewers find out how restoration work is going on the famous Louisville clock on Fourth Street during the next Louisville Life . The program also features local Girl Scouts, the Louisville Slugger Museum and the new director of the Frazier International History Museum. It airs Thursday, Jan. 18 at 7:30/6:30 p.m. CT and Sunday, Jan. 21 at noon/11 a.m. CT on KET2. Candyce Clifft hosts.
First Louisville Life features repair work on the amazing clock the late sculptor Barney Bright completed in 1976, which, every day at noon, featured a race among famous and historical figures on downtown's Fourth Street. It fell into disrepair and was dismantled, but now Louisville businessman Adam Burkle is supervising its restoration.
Girl Scouting in the United States began in 1912, when Juliette "Daisy" Gordon Low organized the first meeting in Savannah, Ga. Framed around their famous cookie program, which kicks off January 12th, this segment explains what 21st century scouting is like for the Kentuckiana Girl Scouts.
Next, it's always baseball season on Main Street, home of the museum devoted to the famed Louisville Slugger baseball bat. Since 1884, Louisville Slugger has put prime lumber in the hands of the greatest players of the game. A visit to the museum reveals how the sport has changed between then and now, but the "crack of the bat" remains one of the most thrilling moments in sports.
Then, viewers meet Mary Case, interim executive director of the Frazier International History Museum, and discover how one of Louisville's newest museums covers 1,000 years of history.
The program concludes with a look at the soggy details accompanying the devastating 1937 Ohio River flood, which occurred 70 years ago.
Louisville Life is a KET production, produced and directed by Gary Pahler. Jayne McClew is content producer; associate producer is Kelli Brodersen. More information about Louisville Life is available at www.ket.org/loulife. More about KET programming and education services, as well as how to support KET, can be found at www.ket.org.