The Pappygate
In Frankfort, Kentuky, everyone knows each other, 25,000 people who live in the seat of Franklin County and state’s capital. Despite what you may think, the name doesn’t come from the most famous German city. The town founded in 1786 and had its name from a pioneer killed by Native Americans. The young man, Stephen Frank, was fatally shot as he crossed the ford of the Kentucky River so to the pioneer settlement was given the name of Frank’s ford, which later became Frankfort.
Kentucky is famous for its production of Bourbon; Kentucky bourbon is said to be the best of all thanks to the properties of its water from the near river.
In Frankfort there is the oldest whisky’s (or whiskey?, better: bourbon) distillery in the United States, what is now known as Buffalo Trace Distillery, born in the first half of the 1800s, although over the years it had changed its name several times. The original distillery was built by Julian Pappy Van Winkle.
I don’t know how the life in Frankfurt is, but I imagine it like a classic provincial town, there’s a library and a university. A calm city, where the Bluegrass is the main music, as whole Kentucky is.
One of the most popular game is softball, a good local league…
