Now to the next stop in our series Mondays on Main.

Tonight, we go to Paducah.

Home to museums, restaurants, shopping, arts and culture.

The seat of McCracken County is the largest city in the Jackson Purchase region, home to so much of Western Kentucky's heritage that Sarah Bradley is known to many for her success.

On the television series Top Chef.

But here in Paducah, she's a hometown girl.

Paducah has this really just great energy about it.

I'm a champion for Paducah when I'm making a decision, it is.

Will it be good for me?

Will it be good for my family and will it be good for my city?

She opened her restaurant freight house in 2015, offering farm to table dining in western Kentucky and the Ohio Valley.

Cooking with the seasons is something that's very important to me.

I think the food taste better.

I think it's better for our environment.

Bradley's culinary offerings are inspired by her upbringing.

I have Appalachia and Jewish roots.

With Bradley's television acclaim competing most recently on Top Chef World All-Stars, her restaurant draws fans from far and wide.

They come for the food and then they end up staying for the quilting and the art and the unicycle designation and all the other bars and shops and restaurants downtown.

It is the goal of Paducah Mainstreet to make them feel welcome.

It's not too big.

It's not too small.

It's one of those kind of towns.

We still have that small town mentality and that kind of lean on each other attitude that I don't think you always get in larger cities.

There's much to appreciate about downtown Paducah from the riverfront to retail with an eclectic mix of shops, restaurants and nightlife.

It's beautiful.

It's one of the few riverfront towns that's still so vibrant.

Susan Edwards has been a downtown merchant for a couple of decades.

She's seen a lot of change during that time and is pleased with the progress.

It's just such a wonderful economic area.

It's fun.

People come to visit and see what we're doing down here.

Visitors make up a large portion of the downtown customer base.

Most of our businesses say around 80 to 90% of their clientele is tourists.

We're in a great position between like Nashville and Saint Louis, so we get lots of people traveling through.

There, drawn to attractions like the National Quilt Museum and the historic Lowertown Arts District, where creativity is on full display.

I love the vibrancy and the culture down here, and I love being part of the cultural fabric of our downtown.

Western Kentucky native Landi Bryant studied at Murray State University before moving to Paducah in 2000 to when the arts district was being conceptualized.

They gave artists incentives to create, build work like live work spaces, studios and galleries, and that revitalized that community big time.

So that brought a lot of artists in.

And I think that had a trickle down effect with the Paducah School of Art and Design.

Her shop, Brick Art Collective, is what she describes as an outside the box collection of unique art and things that represent the community she loves so much.

I also want to make Paducah a place I want to continue to live.

Really focused on creating craft cocktails.

Whitney Wallace and her husband Tyler had the Johnson Bar.

Really exploring the different worlds and modalities of both alcoholic and nonalcoholic coffee cocktails.

Just anything that's crafted and a little bit original.

They created the nonprofit Beautiful Paducah to support programs, festivals and events that encourage city growth.

There's a lot more creativity flowing, a lot more unique businesses coming down here and a little bit more diversity.

Hopefully it will be on the way.

It's already started creeping in, so it feels good.

It feels like we're headed somewhere that makes me proud.

Downtown merchants meet monthly to discuss events, improvements and collaborations.

Paducah Main Streets goal is to have every storefront occupied.

We also inform people of the historic tax credit so that they can apply for.

Local, say, the historic character and culture of downtown is part of its charm.

I love Margaret Howe Square, where my shop is located.

It is brick paved streets and goes back to the 1800s.

Honoring the past while looking ahead to the future.

The vision of those who are passionate about Paducah.

I am just so proud to be from here.

I am really proud to always show it off.

I say Paducah on the TV as much as I can.

So Paducah, Paducah, Paducah, come to Paducah.