The annual AFS conference always offers some pre-conference tours to explore the local culture of the host area. This year, I went on the "Saints and Sinners" tour organized by colleague Nancy Nusz. We alternated between bourbon distilleries, like Heaven Hill or Maker's Mark, and churches in this historically Catholic area, including the Abbey of Gethsemani where Trappist monk Thomas Merton lived. Re: the sinning part of the tour, I learned lots about bourbon including that the distilleries give GREAT tours. The photos here show the 'rick houses' for Heaven Hill (these types of huge storage buildings dot the local landscape) and what they look like inside. The black mold on the outside of the building is from the evaporation going on in the aging barrels; it's called 'terula.'
The annual AFS conference always offers some pre-conference tours to explore the local culture of the host area. This year, I went on the "Saints and Sinners" tour organized by colleague Nancy Nusz. We alternated between bourbon distilleries, like Heaven Hill or Maker's Mark, and churches in this historically Catholic area, including the Abbey of Gethsemani where Trappist monk Thomas Merton lived. Re: the sinning part of the tour, I learned lots about bourbon including that the distilleries give GREAT tours. The photos here show the 'rick houses' for Heaven Hill (these types of huge storage buildings dot the local landscape) and what they look like inside. The black mold on the outside of the building is from the evaporation going on in the aging barrels; it's called 'terula.'
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