Kentucky

HONEST ABE – Did you know that the great Union chief, the country’s 16th president, was a Southerner? Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky. Visit his humble boyhood home at Knob Creek Farm, located at Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site, 2995 Lincoln Farm Road, Hodgenville, KY 42748, www.nps.gov/abli/.

WHISKEY JACK – Kentucky is the home of bourbon. Wet your whistle on the bourbon trail, and take a free tour of a number of distilleries, including Maker’s Mark, 3350 Burks Spring Road, Loretto, KY 40037, or go to www.makersmark.com.

DANIEL BOONE – The frontiersman almost single-handedly opened Kentucky for settlement, but he was also a soldier, a businessman, and a Virginia legislator. Visit his gravesite at Frankfort Cemetery, 215 East Main Street, Frankfort, KY 40601 (502-227-2403).