>> HI EVERYBODY.

I'M DAVE SHUFFETT.

WELCOME TO "KENTUCKY LIFE."

ON THIS EDITION, WE HAVE TWO EXAMPLES OF KENTUCKY'S RICH HISTORY.

THE CENTRE HAS BEEN A COMMUNITY ICON IS OFTEN CALLED THE JEWEL OF GEORGETOWN.

BUT FIRST IT IS HARD FOR SOME OF US TO IMAGINE THAT A CEMETERY CAN BE A PLACE OF ART, BEAUTY AND NATURAL SPLENDOR.

BUT THAT'S THE CASE WITH THE HISTORIC CAVE HILL CEMETERY IN LOUISVILLE.

IT IS ONE OF THE PREMIER CEMETERIES IN THE COUNTRY.

FAMOUS LOUISVILLEIANS AND KENTUCKIANS ARE BURIED THERE FROM FRONTIERSMEN TO MORE RECENT CELEBRITIES.

BUT, JUST AS NOTABLE ARE THE NATURE SANCTUARY, ARBORIDUM, ART IN THE FORM OF MONUMENTS AND EVEN A CAVE FROM WHICH IT GOT ITS NAME.

>> I GUESS I CHERISH WORKING HERE MAINLY BECAUSE CAVE HILL IS A PREMIER CEMETERY IN THE UNITED STATES.

>> LOUISVILLE'S CAVE HILL CEMETERY STANDS AS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF THE RURAL STYLE.

A CEMETERY DESIGNED UNIQUE TO AMERICA, DEVELOPED DURING THE VICTORIAN EARRA.

RURAL GARDEN CEMETERIES MADE USE OF NATURAL-LOOKING LANDSCAPING AND PARK-LIKE FEATURES.

THIS NEW TYPE OF CEMETERY WAS DESIGNED TO BRING THE LIVING AND THE DEAD TOGETHER IN A PASTORAL SETTING.

CAVE HILL IS AN ARBORIDUM WITH SPECIES OF TREES ANDTIONS, SOME 200 YEARS OLD.

AND AN OUTDOOR MUSEUM FILLED WITH A FINE COLLECTION OF MONTH MONTH -- MONUMENTAL ART.

THE EARTHLY REMAINS OF MANY OF LOUISVILLE'S MOST PROMINENT CITIZENS REST AT CAVE HILL.

EVEN THE CITY'S FOUNDER GENERAL GEORGE ROGERS CLARK.

AND HIS NEPHEW MERIWETHER LOUIS CLARK JR., FOUNDER OF CHURCHILL DOWNS AND CREATOR OF THE KENTUCKY DERBY IS ALSO BURIED HERE.

SO IS COLONEL HARLAND SANDERS WHO CHOSE TO OVERSEE THE DESIGN AND INSTALLATION OF HIS MEMORIAL WHICH INCLUDES A BUST DESIGNED BY HIS DAUGHTER.

THE ENTREPRENEUR AND CREATOR OF KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN DIED IN 1980.

TODAY, CAVE HILL CEMETERY IS A LOUISVILLE LANDMINE.

BUT IT WAS ALMOST AN AFTERTHOUGHT WHEN THE CITY FOUNDERS BOUGHT PART OF THE JOHNSTON FAMILY FARM IN 1832.

THE CEMETERY WAS NAMED AFTER A CAVERN ON THE PROPERTY.

THE STONE QUARRIES ON FARM WERE A VALUABLE COMMODITY IN A THRIVING YOUNG OHIO RIVER TOWN.

IN THOSE DAYS, CAVE HILL WAS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS THE CITY OF THE DEAD.

>> WE WISH TO SAY THAT AT PRESENT, NO MORE PLEASANT AFTERNOON CAN BE SPENT IN A VISIT TO OUR BEAUTIFUL CITY OF THE DEAD.

LOUISVILLE DAILY LEDGER, AUGUST 11, 1873.

>> GENERALLY EVERY ARTICLE IN THE NEWSPAPER QUOTED CAVE HILL AS BEING THE CITY OF THE DEAD.

AND IT WAS KIND OF USED LOOSELY IN THAT TIME.

BUT WE HAVE 120,000 PEOPLE INER THEED IN CAVE HILL SO IT ACTUALLY IS.

YOU KNOW, YOU COULD SAY THE CITY OF THE DEAD.

CAVE HILL WAS DESIGNED AS A PLACE FOR THE LIVING AND FAMILIES THAT VISIT CAVE HILL, IT IS AN ARBORIDUM SET SETTING AND IT WAS A PLACE REALLY TO REST ON THE WEEKEND AND WALK FROM BROADWAY TO DOWNTOWN LOUISVILLE, IT MIGHT BE A TWO-MILE WALK TO THE SEAMTARY AND MANY FAMILIES WOULD SPEND ALL DAY HERE AND WALK BACK IN THE EVENING AND BRING THEIR LUNCH AND VISIT GRAVES AND SEE ALL THE NATURAL BEAUTY AND THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTY ALSO.

>> IN 1846, A CIVIL ENGINEER BY THE NAME OF EDMOND FRANCIS LEE WAS HIRED TO LAYOUT THE PROPERTY.

OTHERS WOULD LATER ALTER AND ENHANCE HIS PLAN.

BUT TODAY, MORE THAN 150 YEARS LATER, IT IS STILL THESE VISION AS THE ARE MOST EVIDENT AT CAVE HILL.

>> BUT HE HAD IDEAS OF ROADWAYS FOLLOWING THE TERRAIN AND THE NATURAL HILLSIDES, AND ON THE HILLS AND USING THOSE AND GOING DOWN WITH CIRCLES OF MONUMENTS AND LOTS FROM THE TOP OF THE HILL DOWN INTO THE VALLEYS.

AND IN MOST CASES THE VALLEYS WERE WHERE THE ROADWAYS WERE INSTALLED.

>> IN 1868, WHEN MORE DESIGN WORK WAS NEEDED, THE JOB WENT TO BENJAMIN GROVES.

GROVE WOULD LATER DEVELOP ADDITIONAL AREAS AND DRAW UP A MAP OF THE ENTIRE CEMETERY.

THAT MAP COMPLETED IN 1-888 HAS BEEN A FIXTURE IN THE CAVE HILL OFFICES EVER SINCE.

>> WALKING ON AN 8-FOOT WALKWAY IN THE OLDER SECTION OF CAVE HILL, THESE LANES WERE INITIALLY INSTALLED IN THE VICTORIAN ERA, AND THE PEOPLE BACK THEN HAD A PHOBIA ABOUT WALKING ON GRAVE SITE SO THEY WALKED DOWN THE PATHWAYS.

THEY ARE LINED WITH LIMESTONE ON EACH SIDE AND WE USE THEM FOR MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT TO GET IN AND OUT OF THE SECTIONS.

>> LIKE OTHER PUBLIC CEMETERIES FROM THE VICTORIAN ERA, CAVE HILL WAS TO BE PERPETUALLY MAINTAINED THROUGH FUNDS FROM THE SALE OF LOTS.

OVER THE YEARS THAT MONEY HAS BEEN USED FOR THE PURCHASE OF LAND, AND THE CONSTRUCTION AND UPKEEP OF COUNTLESS PROJECTS.

>> THIS IS A WATCHMAN'S SHELTER HOUSE IN SECTION N AT CAVE HILL.

IT WAS BUILT IN 1892 AND IT IS REALLY THE OLDEST FARM OF THE ARCHITECTURE AND IT IS A COPY OF MARIE AN TO NET'S COTTAGES IN PARIS AND THE GUARDS DURING THE 1890s USED IT AS THEIR HEADQUARTERS DURING INCLEMENT WEATHER AND THE BARK IS ORIGINAL BARK.

THE ORIGINAL DESIGN FROM WOOD CUT ON THE GROUND.

>> THE 19TH CENTURY HAS BEEN CALLED THE GUILDED AGE.

A TIME WHEN WELLTHAND STATUS WERE EXPRESSED IN THE ACCUMULATION OF ORNATELY-DECORATED POSSESSIONS.

>> WE NOTICE HERE THAT IN CAVE HILL CEMETERY, UNLIKE THE BURIAL PLACES IN OTHER CITIES, THE GENERAL CUSTOM PREVAILS OF ERECTING MONUMENTS FOR FAMILIES WHILE THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY IS ALIVE.

THIS IS A STRANGE CUSTOM.

AND IS FULL OF SUGGESTION.

THE LOUISVILLE DAILY COMMERCIAL, APRIL 16, 1871.

>> MANY OF THESE MERCHANTS WERE WEALTHY, IT WAS BEFORE INCOME TAX, AND IT WAS A COMPETITION FOR MONUMENTS REALLY.

SO MANY OF THE VICTORIA-ERA MONUMENTS AND IT WAS CALLED VICTORIAN EXTRAF GANS IN MONUMENTAL DESIGN.

THEY HAD COMPETITION ON THEIR MINDS.

AND THERE ARE MANY GREAT MONUMENT DEALERS AND SCULPTORS IN LOUISVILLE WHO HAD CONNECTIONS IN ITALY.

AND THEY HAD THE SCULPTURES DONE IN ITALY AND SOME OF THE MONUMENTS DONE ALSO AND SHIPPED OVER TO THIS COUNTRY.

ONE IN PARTICULAR, THE WILDER MONUMENT, MR.

WILDER SPENT, I THINK, -- THE WHOLE ENTIRE FORTUNE ON THIS MONUMENT.

IT IS WHITE ITALIAN MARBLE, 20-FEET TALL, AND HIS DAUGHTER SIX-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER HAD DIED AND HE AND HIS WIFE WERE STANDING ON TOP OF THE MONUMENT.

HIS WIFE WAS CRYING.

IS HE POINTING HIS FINGER TOWARDS HEAVEN, INTO THE SKY, AND HIS DAUGHTER HAD GROWN ANGEL WINGS SENDING HIM TO HEAVEN.

SO THAT'S PROBABLY THE ULTIMATE VICTORIAN EXTRAF GANS, ALL DONE JUST FOR HIS SIX-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER.

>> WHILE THE WILDER MONUMENT WAS MORE EXTRAVAGANT THAN MOST, THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN HAVE BEEN BURIED AT CAVE HILL.

THEIR GRAVE STONES, SOMETIMES SWEET OR WOMEN -- WHIM SICKAL STAND TO A TESTAMENT WHERE THE LOSS OF A SMALL CHILD WAS A SORROW FAMILIAR TO MANY FAMILIES BOTH RICH AND POOR.

>> SO THE INITIAL BEAUTIFUL MONUMENTS ARE MARBLE.

BUT MARBLE IS VERY BRITTLE, GRANITE IS MUCH, MUCH HARDER THAN MARBLE.

YOU CAN GET MORE DETAIL CARVING IN MARBLE BUT THE DURABILITY COMES IN GRANITE.

AS YOU DRIVE THROUGH PROBABLY IN THE OLD SECTION, ABOUT 90% IS MARBLE AND IT STARTS TO DETERIORATE, PICKS UP SULFUR DIOXIDE AND THE SULFUR AND AS SIDE RAIN KEEPS AWAY THE CARBONS AND MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO READ AFTER, SAY, 75 YEARS.

BUT YOU LOOK AT THE GRAN AND IT THE GRANITE LOOKS JUST LIKE IT DID THE DAY THAT IT WAS CARVED.

>> CAVE HILL IS A VERITABLE WHO'S WHO OF LOUISVILLE HISTORY.

LOCAL LANDSCAPE GARDINER EDWIN VIVIAN THOMPSON TOOK THE NOTION OF THE FAMILY TREE TO A NEW LEVEL WITH HIS SYMBOLIC MONUMENT.

THOMPSON WHO MADE A FORTUNE IN REAL ESTATE AND STOCK INVESTMENT DIED IN 1893.

RIVER BOAT CAPTAIN JAMES IRVINE HAD THE FAMILY MASS LEEM DESIGNED IN 1867, 16 YEARS BEFORE HIS DEATH.

THE CALDWELL SISTERS, MARY ELIZABETH AND MARY BOTH LEFT AND LIVED ROYALTY.

THEY REUNITED IN DEATH.

PRESTON POPE WHITE, COMMISSIONED THIS GREEK-INSPIRED TEMPLE OF LOVE AS A MEMORIAL TO HIS WIFE.

THE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY MAY HAVE BEEN THE HEIGHT OF MONUMENTAL WORKS OF ART AT CAVE HILL.

BUT THE DESIRE TO MEMORIALIZE THE DECEASED CONTINUES TO THIS DAY.

20TH CENTURY LOUISVILLE ARTIST BARNEY BRIGHT DESIGNED MEMORIALS FOR A NUMBER OF WELL TO DO LOUISVILLEIANS.

AM THE MEMORIAL'S HE DESIGNED AT CAVE HILL WAS A MARKER FOR HIS OWN GRAIN.

>> CAVE HILL IS NOT THE ACTUAL -- THE ONLY TRUE ARBORIDUM IN KENTUCKY WHERE YOU HAVE PLANTS THAT ARE OVER 100 YEARS OF AGE.

THINK THAT'S THE KEY.

YOU SEE PLANTS IN MATURITY BUT WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE, AT THE END OF THE THEIR LIFE.

WE HAVE SOME AT THE BEGINNING OF THEIR LIFE SO YOU CAN SEE HOW THE PLANTS CHANGE FROM A SIX-FOOT CELLING TO A FOUR-FOOT TRUNK DIAMETER TREE.

>> THIS IS ONE OF THE OLDEST TREES, GINKGO BILOBA PLANTED AROUND 1840 BY THE JOHNSTON FAMILY.

THE ORIGINAL OWNERS.

IT HAS AN 18-FOOT TRUNK CIRCUMFERENCE.

THE BEAUTIFUL TREE.

THE LEAF IS VERY UNUSUAL.

HAS A PARALLEL, AND THE FOSSIL REMAINS OF THIS TREE HAVE BEEN LOCATED TO BE ABOUT 150 MILLION YEARS OF AGE.

>> HUMAN VISITORS AREN'T THE ONLY ONES WHO APPRECIATE CAVE HILL'S PARK-LIKE SETTING.

IT IS VARIETY OF TREES AND SHRUBS, AND THE FIVE SPRING-FED LAKES MAKES IT ATTRACTIVE TO OTHERS AS WELL.

>> SOME OF THE WATERFOWL REALLY BECOME FRIENDS WITH THE VISITORS.

AND THEY ARE WAITING FOR THE VISITORS AS THEY BRING BREAD IN TO FEED.

THEY KNOW PRETTY MUCH THE TIME OF DAY THAT THEY'RE GOING TO COME IN TO FEED AND THEY'RE WAITING ON THE ROADWAY REALLY FOR THE LADIES AND MEN OR CHILDREN TO COME IN, AND CAN BRING IN THEIR LUNCH, SO TO SPEAK.

>> WE'RE JOINED HERE TO HONOR THESE GREAT MEN TO PRESERVE OUR NATION.

WE HAVE SCATTERED PETALS.

AND -- >> CAVE HILL IS A PLACE DEEP IN HISTORY.

THE PLACE WHERE GENERATIONS OF LOUISVILLE CITIZENS HAVE COME TO BURY THEIR DEAD.

BUT FOR HUNDREDS OF YOUNG MEN FROM ACROSS AMERICA, THIS FINAL RESTING PLACE WAS FAR FROM HOME.

IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE 300 ACRE PROPERTY IS CAVE HILL NATIONAL CEMETERY.

SOLDIERS KILLED AT PERRYVILLE, AND OTHER BATTLES WERE BURIED HERE.

EVENTUALLY MORE THAN 200 CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS WERE BURIED IN A NEARBY FORECASTLY-OWNED LOT.

MOST DIED WHILE BEING HELD AS PRISONERS OF WAR AT A NEARBY MILITARY PRISON.

>> THE RICH, THE POOR, THE HIGH, THE LOW, THE SOLDIER, AND THE CITIZEN, ALL SLUMBER SIDE BY SIDE.

TOGETHER, UNDER THE SAME, THERE IS NO DISTINCTION THERE BETWEEN THOSE WHO SLEEP BENEATH TOWERING MONUMENTS AND THOSE WHO SLUMBER BENEATH THE GREEN.

THE SAME GOD THAT GAVE THEM LIFE WILL, IN THE GREAT DAY, CALL THEM TO AN ACCOUNT FOR THEIR DEEDS DONE IN THE BODY.

LOUISVILLE DAILY DEMOCRAT.

JULY 14, 1868.

>> ANOTHER HISTORIC KENTUCKY LANDMARK IS LOCATED IN GEORGETOWN.

IT IS CALLED THE CARDOME CENTRE.

TODAY IT IS USED AS A COMMUNITY CENTRE FOR EVERYTHING FROM WEDDINGS TO LOCAL FESTIVALS.

BUT ITS 200-YEAR HISTORY IS RICH INDEED.

IT WAS THE HOME OF A KENTUCKY GOVERNOR, AND AS WE'LL SEE IN THIS FEATURE, AT ONE TIME, IT WAS A GIRL'S SCHOOL MANAGED BY THE SISTERS OF VISITATION.

>> CARDOME.

A SCOTT COUNTY LANDMARK WAS ONCE HOME TO THE SISTERS OF THE VISITATION.

TODAY, THIS FORMER CONVENT AND GIRLS SCHOOL HAS A NEW LIFE AS A COMMUNITY CENTRE FOR THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN.

>> IN 1987 WHEN THE DECISION WAS MADE FOR THE SISTERS OF VISITATION TO SELL THE CARDOME CENTRE PROPERTY, THERE WAS A MILLION DOLLAR GIFT THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN TO THE CITIZENS OF GEORGETOWN SCOTT COUNTY BY TOYOTA MANUFACTURING.

THIS WAS UP FOR SALE, THE DECISION WAS MADE TO PURCHASE IT.

AND WHEN VISITORS ACTUALLY COME TO THE FACILITY, I THINK THEY'LL BE VERY INTRIGUED AS TO SEEING THIS MAIN MONASTERY BUILDING.

WHEN THEY COME INTO THE COMPLEX, WE DO HAVE IN OUR MAIN HALLWAYS, WE HAVE HISTORY THAT GOES BACK TO BEFORE KENTUCKY WAS A STATE, WHEN ALSO WHEN JAMES FISHER ROBINSON LIVED HERE.

>> JAMES FISHER ROBINSON MOVED HIS FAMILY HERE.

AND IN 1862, HE BECAME GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY.

AND CHOSEN TO RESIGN IF A UNION DEMOCRAT OF HIS CHOICE COULD BE CHOSEN TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THIS IN LINE TO SUCCEED HIM AS THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR LEN BOYD HAD DIED.

ROBINSON BEING A FAIR-MINDED INDIVIDUAL WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, BECAME GOVERNOR IN AUGUST OF 1862 AND SERVED AS GOVERNOR FOR THAT VERY CRUCIAL YEAR OF 1862-1863.

GOVERNOR ROBINSON DIED IN 1882.

AFTER THAT, HIS WIFE CONTINUED TO LIVE HERE, USED THE PROPERTY AS A RESORT FOR A WHILE.

MEANWHILE, IN 1875, THE SISTERS OF THE VISITATION CAME FROM MAYSVILLE TO SCOTT COUNTY.

>> THE NUNS FIRST STARTED A DAY SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF WHITE SULFUR.

THEN IN 1896, THEY PURCHASED GOVERNOR ROBINSON'S FORMER HOME COMPLETE WITH ITS HILLTOP VIEW OF GEORGETOWN.

>> IN 1900, THE SISTERS NEGOTIATED WITH THE SAMUEL HANAFORD FIRM WHO DESIGNED THE MAIN MONETARY AND ACADEMY BUILDING.

NOW, THE NAME CARDOME COMES FROM THE LATIN WORD, A NAME THAT GOVERNOR NOOR ROBINSON WHO WAS A LAYTON SCHOLAR HAD GIVEN TO HIS HOME FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, PEOPLE HAD THOUGHT, WELL, THAT THE LATIN TIGHTLE WOULD MEAN THAT A BUNCH OF NUNS PROBABLY NAMED IT.

BUT IT WAS ACTUALLY A BAPTIST ATTORNEY WHO NAMED IT.

AND THEY KEPT THE TITLE.

WHEN I FIRST CAME TO CARDOME IN 1954, I WAS A STUDENT AT GEORGETOWN COLLEGE WRITING FOR THE LEKKING ON THE NEWSPAPER.

AND AT THAT TIME THE ATMOSPHERE AT CARDOME WAS RATHER FOREBODING.

IT WAS VERY QUIET, MYSTERIOUS, AND SO I WENT TO THE DOOR, AND KNOCKED ON THE DOOR, AND SISTER VICTORIA OPENED THE STAINED GLASS WINDOW AND LOOKED THROUGH THE GRATE AND SAID "YES?

."

AND YOU WOULD TELL SISTER VICTORIA WHAT YOU WANTED TO DO THERE.

AND SHE WOULD THEN SHUFFLE AROUND THROUGH THE MONASTERY, AND FIND THE PERSON THAT YOU NEEDED TO SEE, AND THEN, SHE WOULD USHER YOU IN AND SHE WOULD OPEN THE HUGE DOORS AND USHER YOU IN TO THE PARLOR AND MEET WITH THIS PERSON.

THIS IS MOTHER JANE FRANCIS AND MOTHER SUPERIOR AND SISTER JANE WHO LATER BECAME MOTHER SUPERIOR, WHO WAS THE LAST MOTHER SUPERIOR.

>> WHEN I CAME, AVS LITTLE GIRL IN A LITTLE DORMITORY.

AND MOST OF THE TIME, SISTER JULIA WAS AHEAD OF THE DORMITORY.

MARTHA BRUCE WAS THERE WITH ME.

AND IT WAS JUST A LOT OF FUN, I GUESS, OLD FASHIONED FUN.

AND OF COURSE I WAS THERE DURING THE WAR.

AND THAT'S WHEN IT REACHED THE PEAK OF CLOSE TO 100 GIRLS.

THERE WERE A LOT OF GREAT -- CAROLLING AROUND WINTER IN THE CHRISTMAS TIME.

THOSE TIMES WERE QUAINT.

>> SO MANY THINGS, SISTER JULIA AND I LOOK BACK AND WONDER HOW SHE DID WHAT SHE DID.

SHE WOULD WASH ALL OF OUR HEADS.

AND GIVE US A BATH.

AND EVERYBODY WOULD NEIL DOWN AND SAY YOUR PRAYERS.

AND THEN SHE WOULD READ YOU A FAIRY TAIL, PUT US TO SLEEP.

BERP SLIGHTLY SPOILED.

>> BUT THE WORLD WAS CHANGING.

AND FEWER AND FEWER YOUNG WOMEN WERE CHOSING TO DEMANDS OF LIFE AS A NUN.

>> AND ENROLLMENT BEGAN TO DECLINE.

THE SISTERS GREW OLDER, AND NEEDED TO BRING IN MORE LAY HELP.

FINALLY IN 1969, THE SISTERS VOTED TO CLOSE THE ACADEMY.

>> CAR.

COM VISITATION- >> CARDOME VISITATION ACADEMY WAS NO MORE AND IN A FEW REMAINING YEARS, THE REST OF THE SISTERS WOULD BE GONE.

MEMORIES OF THAT SIMPLER TIME ARE BEING PRESERVED.

>> THE CARDOME ACADEMY ASSOCIATION WHICH IS A GROUP OF FORMER STUDENTS, THEY HAVE FORMED AN ORGANIZATION, AND HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY EXTREMELY HARD TO PROVIDE A HISTORY RING THAT'S GOING TO TELL THE STORIES OF THEIR TIMES, AND DIFFERENT ERAS, SO THEY ARE IN THE PROCESS OF COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHS.

WHATEVER.

WE DO HAVE THAT AVAILABLE FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

AND ALSO WE ARE IN THE PROCESS THANKS TO THE CARDOME ACADEMY ASSOCIATION OF DOING A WALKING PICTORIAL.

SOME OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS HAVE BEEN HUNG.

AND IT IS GIVING A REFLECTION OF WHAT THE DIFFERENT RINGS WERE USED FOR.

DURING THE SISTERS OF VISITATION.

WHAT WE NOW REFER TO AS THE SCOTT COUNTY HALL IS THE FORMER CHAPEL.

IT WAS USED DURING THE SISTERS OF VISITATION FOR THE DAILY MASS.

BEAUTIFUL ORNATE ROMANESQUE STYLE STAINED GLASS WIN DHOOS COULD NEVER, EVER BE REPLACED.

VERY GORGEOUS.

THOSE ARE THE ORIGINAL STAINED GLASS WINDOWS.

WE TALK ABOUT, AND WE MAKE THE COMMENT IF THE WALLS COULD TALK, I THINK THAT IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE UNDERSTAND WHO THE PEOPLE WERE THAT LIVED HERE, WHAT THEIR -- WHAT THEY OFFER TO THE COMMUNITY AT THAT TIME.

AND WHAT AN IMPACT ESPECIALLY DURING THE SISTERS OF VISITATION YEARS THAT THEY MADE ON THE INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS.

AND THE STUDENTS WERE NOT JUST STUDENTS FROM KENTUCKY, THEY WERE FROM ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES, AND SOME EVEN OUT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

>> UNDERSTANDING THAT A COMMUNITY CANNOT SAVE EVERY PIECE OF HISTORY, THIS IS WORTH PRESERVING FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.

A LOT OF THE AREAS THAT WE LOOK AT, AT THIS FACILITY ARE QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES, WITH GREEN SPACE, PRESERVING OF THE CREEK, REFORESTATION, WALKING TRAILS, THOSE ARE THINGS THAT BECAUSE THEY ARE FAIRLY PLENTIFUL NOW, WE MAY TAKE THEM FOR GRANTED BUT AS THEY DISAPPEAR, IT WILL BECOME MORE IMPORTANT TO OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS OF HAVING IT PRESERVED AND KNOWING THAT IN 1987, THERE WAS A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT CARED ENOUGH ABOUT THEIR COMMUNITY AND HOW HAD A VISION TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS FACILITY WOULD MEAN TO A GROWING COMMUNITY.

>> AS WE'VE SAID, CARDOME IS A COMMUNITY CENTRE TODAY AND ONE OF THE MANY EVENTS HELD THERE EVERY YEAR IS THE INTERNATIONAL KITE AND CULTURE FESTIVAL.

WE WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE WITH YOU SOME SCENES FROM THAT, AND I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANKS FOR WATCHING, AND I'LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK.