Buffalo Trace Distillery
C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) on their “2011 LCV Cities Tour” were in Frankfort, Kentucky, on March 28-31 and August 1-3, 2011, to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Frankfort Plant Board local cable affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2.
Freddie Johnson gave a tour of Buffalo Trace Distillery and talked about bourbon whiskey. The tour included the old warehouse as he talked a… read more
Freddie Johnson gave a tour of Buffalo Trace Distillery and talked about bourbon whiskey. The tour included the old warehouse as he talked about the role of the distillery throughout U.S. history and the role of African Americans in the distillery. Topics included how Prohibition impacted the state and the nation and the current state of Kentucky’s biggest industry.
C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) on their “2011 LCV Cities Tour” were in Frankfort, Kentucky, on March 28-31 and August 1-3, 2011, to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Frankfort Plant Board local cable affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2. close
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