Pictures from around town...

Step back about 100 years or more and you will be in Perryville, Kentucky (but don't pronounce it "pair-ee-vil", it is "paravul", and if you don't say it is right they look at you funny, like "where?"). Everybody knows everybody, everything (the 3 or 4 stores) close early, and the("the"being singular") cop standing at the main intersection waving at everybody driving through town. No speed trap here, people just drive slow because they don't know any other way, and someone might get hurt if you drive too fast, and they know where you live.

The biggest source of pride here is not how big your house is, but how old it is, and how much of it is original, and what you have done to keep it original. In Perryville, new is bad, repair is good. Our home was built in 1947, and there are people (the lady across the street, especially) that still call it new. Our street is one of the original streets shown on Civil War maps; our neighbor's house was built in 1842. It still has blood stains on the hardwood floors from its days as a Civil War hospital. It has been fun to walk around town and see people actually outside and working in their yards without an HOA telling them they have to or because it keeps their property value high. They just do it because it makes their house a nice place to live. It is also fun that nearly every building you walk by has a historical marker in front of it.

I have never seen people so proud of their town. This has got to be the most laid-back place I have ever been!

There is a church on every corner, and everyone goes (except us, we go to Danville 10 miles away)

The footbridge across the Chaplin River. It is the only way to get from one side of the town to the other (unless you get on the "highway").

City Hall

The Elmwood Inn, dates back to the Civil War, and just about every President since (except BHO) has visited. It apparently was a favorite of Ronald Reagan.

The back of "Merchant's Row". Dates back to the 1820's and is still working to this day. I think the funniest place is an old cafe and antique shop called "The Itchy Dog".

Between the river and Merchants Row is a city park that is a bunch of shady lawns, patios and decks where people hang out. Entertainment here is very simple!