For Release: 2008-01-07 11:06:00
The next edition of Louisville Life features the unique Norton Commons neighborhood, a look at UPS and the history of the Thomas Edison House. The program airs Thursday, Jan. 24 at 7:30/6:30 p.m. CT; Friday, Jan. 25 at 4/3 p.m. CT; and Sunday, Jan. 27 at noon/11 a.m. CT on KET2. Candyce Clifft hosts.First, Louisville Life visits Norton Commons, a picturesque Louisville neighborhood that is being built from the ground up. The program goes inside the new community, and viewers learn about its connection to local television broadcasting history.
Next, the program features Louisville’s largest employer, UPS, and how the global freight company is attracting and training its growing local workforce.
Then, Louisville Life visits the Thomas Edison House, located in historic Butchertown. The neighborhood has been known as the center of meat production in the city for more than 200 years, but it was also home to the shotgun duplex Edison called home during the years he lived and worked in Louisville.
Edison’s cottage was built around 1850, and only the most basic accommodations would have been available for the inventor. Some of the interesting artifacts at the house include both cylinder and disc phonographs and an Edison Kinetoscope, the first home motion picture projector.
Then, Candyce meets a woman who is “married” to the Mayor’s Healthy Hometown movement. Mayor Jerry Abramson’s wife, Madeline, visits the Louisville Life studio to discuss her healthy life in Louisville.
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, including streaming video, 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.
Contact: Amanda Stroud
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