Train Rides with Thomas, Colonial Days, Golf Tournament, KY Derby Preview

BARDSTOWN, Ky. - March 1, 2014 - PRLog -- Bardstown, the “Bourbon Capital of the World,” pours on the fun this spring, with events at all major attractions, plus last year’s popular Racing with the Spirits/Bardstown Sampler event returning for its second year. See Bardstown’s Calendar of Events (http://www.visitbardstown.com/tourism/events.php).

Colonials, Spirits and more

The Civil War Museum of the Western Theatre and Wickland, Home of Three Governors host Colonial Days Weekend, April 11-13. Relive the 18th century at a Market Fair in Old Bardstown Village and see Colonial re-enactors, living history demonstrations, military drills and displays, a Native American display depicting the Eastern Tribes and more. The 18th Century Tavern Night will be held Friday night at the circa 1779 Talbott Tavern and a historical ball will take place on Saturday evening at Wickland. www.BardstownColonialDays.com

Wickland, Home of Three Governors will also host the 2nd Annual Derby Preview on Sun., April 6, an afternoon of foods and fashions from Bardstown’s stores and showcasing Kentucky Derby hats by Gloriela's Designs. Year-round on Friday nights, you can “Visit With The Spirits of Wickland” on a family-friendly 90-minute paranormal tour with a psychic medium, divining rods and friendly spirits. http://www.visitbardstown.com/tourism/things2do.html

Trainiacs take note

The Kentucky Railway Museum has several theme excursions: Pizza Train, April 12; The Great Train Robbery, April 26 and 27 and May 31 and June 1; and A Day Out With Thomas™: The Thrill of the Ride Tour 2014, June 7 and 8 and June 14 and 15. www.KyRail.org

Murder most foul and a meal most extraordinary are on board My Old Kentucky Dinner Train: Murder Mystery excursions, March 29 and April 26; Bourbon excursion, April 11. Both events include a two-and-a-half-hour train ride through the countryside and a four-course meal served in the restored 1940s dining car. www.KyDinnerTrain.com

Bourbon, bourbon everywhere

Join the crowd for Racing with the Spirits/Bardstown Sampler, April 25-26, at the Guthrie Opportunity Center. Bet the ponies with play money, watch the races on the big screen and enjoy bourbons from sponsoring distilleries. Sample fine Kentucky bourbons, collect an array of rocks glasses, bid on bourbon-related items during the Silent Auction and pick up your 2014 Kentucky Bourbon Festival lapel pin and poster. www.KyBourbonFestival.com/events.html

The Kenny Rapier State Park Golf Course at My Old Kentucky Home State Park and the Old Kentucky Home Country Club host the 69th Bourbon Open Golf Tournament, May 16-18. Enjoy outstanding foods, Kentucky’s finest spirits and two evenings of great entertainment. www.Parks.ky.gov/golf/18_hole/My-Old-Kentucky-Home-aspx//default.aspx (http://www.Parks.ky.gov/golf/18_hole/My-Old-Kentucky-Home-aspx/default.aspx)

On any visit to Bardstown, drop by the free-admission Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History, selected as Whisky Magazine’s Visitor Attraction of the Year. You’ll see new artifacts from distilleries that no longer exist, an Art Deco Bottle collection, life-sized murals from 1940s-era liquor stores, old moonshine stills, Prohibition-era “prescriptions” and more. www.WhiskeyMuseum.com

Sleep it off at Bardstown’s new Bourbon Manor Bed and Breakfast, a bourbon-themed inn, cafe and spa. Visit http://www.visitbardstown.com/tourism http://www.visitbardstown.com/tourism for information on events and accommodations for a spring visit to Bardstown, Ky.

MEDIA CONTACT:

Dawn Przystal (mailto:dawn@bardstowntourism.com), Vice President-Bardstown-Nelson County TCC, 800-638-4877 x 114

Bardstown-Nelson County Tourist & Convention Commission (http://www.SampleOurSpirit.com)

ABOUT BARDSTOWN, KY│ Located in the heart of Kentucky Bourbon Country and situated at the trailhead of the famed Kentucky Bourbon Trail®, Bardstown (http://www.sampleourspirit.com/) is  more familiarly known as the “Bourbon Capital of the World.” It is home to five distilleries, including Barton 1792 and Willett Distillery and these three Kentucky Bourbon Trail distilleries: Heaven Hill, Maker’s Mark and Jim Beam. Major attractions include the outdoor musical, “The Stephen Foster Story,” My Old Kentucky Home State Park, the highly regarded Civil War Museum of the Western Theatre, My Old Kentucky Dinner Train, the narrated Heaven Hill Trolley tour, The Kentucky Railway Museum and Whisky Magazine’s Visitor Attraction of the Year – the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History. Additionally, Bardstown has four 18-hole golf courses, three wineries, two haunted tours and numerous religious attractions. It was selected the “Most Beautiful Small Town in America” in the Rand McNally/USA Today 2012 “Best of the Road” contest and landed in the top 20 of “America’s Favorite Towns” by Travel + Leisure – which also recognized Bardstown as having  one of “America’s Most Beautiful Town Squares.” In 2013, Bardstown was designated a certified Kentucky Cultural District, one of only six Kentucky cities to achieve this honor. www.facebook.com/BardstownKY