History and Great Food

This morning we visited one of the most beautiful mansions we've ever seen. Whitehall was the home the the great emancipationist, Cassius Clay. While he was originally a slave holder, he decided to free all his slaves in the 1840's and to work for a constitutional amendment to free all slaves. This made him unpopular with a lot of folks. During Lincoln's presidency he served as the Ambassador to Russia.
The inside of the home is about as perfectly restored as is possible. You may have noticed that we've toured many of these old mansions but I've not posted many interior photos. The reason is that most don't allow photography inside to prevent theft. The idea is that someone will take photo's of the most valuable items and then come back and steal them. Many of the items are one of a kind and have great historical significance.
Our afternoon tour today was of the childhood home of Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of Abraham Lincoln. The house sits in on the edge of Downtown Lexington and contain many artifacts from both her childhood and later in life. The tour guide was very knowledgeable about her life and the time period. It gave us a much better understanding of her.
The house sits on the edge of a very busy main street and Cheryl & Patti refused to go out and stop traffic so I could get a good picture. This is the side of the house with the front on the left.

As we so often do, Cheryl and I plan our vacation around food. This area has some excellent and unique foods. So far I've had burgoo, a hot brown and mutton BBQ. I'll leave it to you to research these delicacies . I would definitely have the burgoo and the mutton BBQ again. I'm not sure my arteries could withstand another assault of hot brown.

Tomorrow we head south to catch our plane in Nashville tomorrow evening.