FUN FACTS
FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM LOUISVILLE: Jennifer Lawrence
Actress who has donated $2 million to the Kosair Children’s hospital in Louisville.
Diane Sawyer Broadcast journalist who received many awards. E. P. ‘Tom’ Sawyer park in Louisville is named after her father, a former Jefferson County Judge Executive.
Pee Wee Reese Baseball player known for his support of Jackie Robinson. After Pee Wee retired from baseball, he worked for Hillerich & Bradsby, makers of the Louisville Slugger baseball bats. You can visit the Louisville Slugger museum in downtown Louisville.
OTHER FUN FACTS:
Louisville’s famous Seelbach Hotel served as the inspiration for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. Several other elements of the city are included in this bestseller as well.
90 percent of the world’s disco balls are produced in Louisville.
Louisville’s Churchill Downs was founded by the grandson of famous explorer William Clark. Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr. founded the racetrack in 1874 and originally called it the Louisville Jockey Club. The Kentucky Derby is run on the first Saturday in May every year.
Louisville’s signature dish is a comfort food free-for-all called the Hot Brown. It’s an open-faced sandwich with turkey and bacon smothered in Mornay sauce (main ingredients: butter and heavy cream), topped with Parmesan cheese and Roma tomatoes, and oven-broiled. The name refers to the Brown Hotel, where the dish originated in 1920 as an after-hours treat. You can still order a Hot Brown at the hotel’s restaurant, but fair warning: Don’t try to take it down alone. Be sure to have a Hot Brown when you are here for the convention!
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Muhammad Ali World champion boxer and social philanthropist. The Muhammad Ali Center in downtown Louisville that displays his boxing memorabilia, also focuses on core themes of peace, social responsibility, respect, and personal growth.
Thomas Merton Writer and Trappist monk. “In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers... There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.” A plaque marks the spot of this moment in Thomas Merton’s life.
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