Category: Bob Hill’s Floyds Fork Journal

As important as The Parklands of Floyds Fork will be to Louisville’s future, it’s equally important that we look back to the men and women who first cleared and settled that land, who built homes and raised generations of families on it and, in a sense, first preserved it for all of us. Bob Hill’s Floyds Fork Journal is an ongoing conversation with those people, a visit to those historic places so we can forever know and remember where it all began. All the stories, oral histories and old photographs and memorabilia will be stored at the Filson Historical Society.

A 164-Year Homecoming By Bob Hill

The grave stone of Jacob Hause leans a little forward into time and space, the handsome, hand-carved slab partly coated in moss and lichen, yet still readable 164 years after his death:                                 SACRED                         To the memory of                           … Continue reading

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A Bridge of Many Pieces by Bob Hill

Despite its graceful charm the bridge might soon be taken for granted as one of the many that arch over Floyds Fork. Once it’s concrete decking is poured, the bulldozed  landscape around it reworked to fit the seamless mission and … Continue reading

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The American Chestnut Returns to Kentucky

By Bob Hill George Gibbs said what he wanted to do was help reestablish the American chestnut tree in its former native range – beginning with Kentucky. He said it during a conversation with Christen Boone, then director of external … Continue reading

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Anita Payne – At Home on Floyds Fork – Story by Bob Hill

Let’s just call this story taking a lap around Anita Payne’s old neighborhood. Sure, some new names have been added to her old Floyds Fork stomping grounds.  It’s part of the necessary process in creating a 3,700-acre park on land … Continue reading

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A Sunny Saturday Morning in November

By Bob Hill Let the record show The Parklands of Floyds Fork officially took flight at about 10:30 a.m. on a sunny Saturday morning in November and by 11 a.m. all the rosy predictions for its future – including a … Continue reading

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The Leaping Bridges of The Parklands

By Bob Hill A good bridge will span more than water. It will connect earth and sky. It can help us remember and honor family and old friends. It enables its designers to turn vision into arching steel and massive … Continue reading

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Field & Fork – Bob Hill

Sometime around 6:45 in the evening it became fully apparent that this 21st Century Parks’ Field & Fork thing was going to work. Or in the words of a woman who was dressed a little more stylishly than a summer … Continue reading

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Tree Planting – Bob Hill

The 21st Century Parks work crew planting the native tree seedlings in the Floyds Fork bottomland off Stout Road was dwarfed by its surroundings; the flat, muddy 45-acre field that someday will again be forest; the towering white Sycamore trees … Continue reading

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The Grosscurth Distillery

All that’s left of the Grosscurth Distillery now are the rusted and decayed pieces of the puzzle; the scattered hunks of iron pipe jutting out into the thinly wooded landscape along Echo Trail; remnants of the distillery dam on Floyds … Continue reading

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The Pope Lick Monster – Bob Hill

Something there is – the poet Robert Frost once almost said – that loves an urban myth, and in the case of the Pope Lick Monster that now faded love has lead to a 16-minute independent movie, a well-received play, … Continue reading

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