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We’ll make no “Bones” about it – a cool exhibit for Trekkies comes to Louisville in January.

The Louisville Science Center is hosting “Star Trek: The Exhibition” – a show featuring sets, costumes, props and other items from the Star Trek television series and the Star Trek movies. The exhibition is divided into topic galleries emphasizing themes of science that the creators of Star Trek explored on screen.

Themes include exploration, medicine, communication, and space travel. The kinds of things visitors will actually see include:

• Captain Kirk’s captain’s chair, from the original television series
• A Starfleet medical center from the movie Star Trek: The Next Generation
• A Transporter Room
• A Tricorder (used to assess the composition of unfamiliar areas)
• The handheld Communicator
• Actual show and movie costumes, models and props.

(While Captain Kirk – er, William Shatner – regularly comes to Kentucky for American Saddlebred Horse events, no personal public appearances are scheduled. The horse events take place a few months after this exhibit is scheduled to close.)

The Louisville Science Center is also hosting “An Evening Aboard the Enterprise” Jan. 22 – the night before the exhibit opens. The tiered fundraiser will offer patrons a chance to tour the exhibit before it opens, as well as play laser tag and watch an IMAX movie. Tickets for that event start at $25.

From Jan. 23 through May 22, tickets to enter the Science Center and visit the Star Trek exhibit will be $14 to $18, depending on one’s age.

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If you’re a bourbon connoisseur, a visit to Kentucky Bourbon Trail surely must be on your Bucket List.

Approximately 95 percent of the world’s bourbon whiskey is distilled and aged in Kentucky. Approximately 100 percent of that is treasured the world over. Kentucky’s bourbons range from the broadly available to the highly refined luxury treat.

Legend claims that a Kentucky Baptist minister, Rev. Elijah Craig of Bourbon County, first aged whiskey distilled from corn in charred oak casks. He then sent his casks from Louisville down the river to New Orleans. The long trip to the Big Easy caused the whiskey to take on a reddish color from the oak, and a special flavor as well.

The dates of Rev. Craig’s shipped distillation appear to be lost to history. A more hard and fast date is 1783, when Evan Williams is thought to have been the first commercial distiller in Louisville. Others quickly followed – to the point that one block of Louisville’s Main Street had so many distillers that it became known as “Whiskey Row.”

Today bourbon fans can follow the “bourbon trail” and visit six Kentucky distilleries. Using Louisville as their base, bourbon fans can make day trips to Four Roses, Heaven Hill, Jim Beam, Maker’s Mark, Wild Turkey and Woodford Reserve.

At night, they can enjoy the “Urban Bourbon Trail” at some of the world’s best bourbon bars in Louisville.  Particularly intrepid fans can get Bourbon Passports, which can be stamped at each distillery and each bar – with completed passports earning their holders premium giveaways. Local restaurants also offer bourbon-flavored entrees to further tease the palate.

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If you want to hold a reunion for your family – or any other organization – the Louisville Convention and Visitors Bureau has your back.

The Louisville, KY CVB offers a quarterly series of seminars called “From Our Family to Yours” which provide reunion organizers guidance on all the ins and outs of such an event. One of these seminars is held in November.

It includes a “How to Plan a Family Reunion” presentation by the CVB’s Family Reunion Service Specialists and a “meet and greet” with hospitality industry partners who specialize in family reunions. Attendees also get a “Family Reunion Planning Kit,” unless they’ve already downloaded it from the CVB site.

The planning kit offers suggests for reunion committees, a timeline on getting things set up, and lists of restaurants, tour companies, meeting facilities and other gathering spots that are perfect for such events.

There’s even a planner to develop a special ceremony such as a prayer service to provide a focal point to a gathering. Other resources link planners to a city event calendar, the state tourism department, a West Louisville Celebration resource and the national Reunion Magazine.

And of course, there’s also the quarterly seminars to help planning along. Among the recommendations – don’t make one person plan a large reunion alone; have contingency plans in case something doesn’t come through (including a relative’s promise to do something!) and survey potential attendees for interests to help with planning.

Perhaps the most important piece of advice is for after the reunion is over: Get commitments for people to plan the next event – and make sure you tip the people who helped you during your event!

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The Louisville Zoo located in exciting Louisville, KY offers visitors more than 1,300 animals housed on 135 acres. It also offers visitors the chance to zip high above the park – as well as splash about below.

In fact the Zoo works hard at offering visitors new attractions – so patrons will keep coming back.

The major new attraction is the Louisville Zoo’s $29 million “Glacier Run,” a 4.3-acre exhibit set up as an imaginary gold-mining town on the edge of the Arctic wilderness. It will offer an “immersive” experience – for example, one feature will be a parked truck where zoo visitors can sit separated by a glass barrier from curious polar bears who can examine the truck.

So far, four phases have opened. They include a splash park, a tundra tiger exhibit and a seal and sea lion habitat exhibit. Coming exhibits include the polar bear and mining town exhibits, a school house for educational use, and a sea eagle and sea otter exhibit.

The goal of Glacier Run echoes the zoo’s philosophy of “bettering the bond between people and our planet,” or teaching people how humans need to coexist with nature. It also echoes another philosophy – have fun while learning.

In addition to the splash park, the Louisville Zoo recently added a zip line feature. This attraction offers visitors a chance to ride 50 feet overhead in a secure harness tethered to an overhead cable. The line runs across the zoo’s lake for 350 feet or a little more than two football fields for a roundtrip between the two cable towers.

Glacier Run joins six other geographic settings within the zoo: The Islands, African Veldt, Asian Plains, North and South America Panorama, Aquatics and the Australian Outback.

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