WESTERN WATERLANDS National Quilt Museum , Paducah One would expect a designated UNESCO Creative City to be bursting at the seams with art, and Paducah does not disappoint. Its Wall to Wall Murals present the city’s history in more than 50 life-sized, richly detailed panoramic paintings. Follow the glorious pink and white blooms of dogwoods, redbuds and weeping cherry trees on a 12-mile lighted trail through Paducah’s historic downtown, Lower Town Arts District and residential neighborhoods during the Annual Dogwood Trail Celebration in mid-April. The Wooldridge Monuments – known collectively as “The Strange Procession That Never Moves” – depicts 18 life-size statues voguing it up in Mayfield’s Maplewood Cemetery. Even the family pets are remembered, with monuments to hunting dogs Tow-Head and Bob. Enhancing the “pretty town perched upon a handsome hill” – Mark Twain’s description for this tiny river town on the Mississippi along Kentucky’s Great River Road – are the 76 historical paintings comprising the Hickman Floodwall Murals . Woodwork, by Paul Ferrell kentuckytourism.com 123
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