Cherokee Park

Pleasure is all mine.

I guess first off, the first thing I want to dig into about this new project is the first place I actually got to experience some of these songs live, which is the really special pop-up show you did the week of the project's official release at Cherokee Park up there in Louisville.

It's funny because I...

I couldn't tell you the last time I was actually in Louisville for a show.

It might've been like back when forecastle was still going on or something, you know, pre COVID at headliners or a place like that, or maybe even the mercury ballroom.

Like it's literally been too long to recall.

Um, but that was a cool reason to get back up there, especially with the way you did it inside Cherokee park doing just like the, the little, uh, what GPS coordinate drop or whatever kind of thing.

And, uh i didn't know where exactly i was rolling into i i i was i was half expecting to get out of my car and just like be looking around bewildered like an idiot and all these people like what's this guy doing and but no i it was perfect i i got out of the car and like right over to the just over to the left it was uh

Yeah.

They also said that they're planning to kind of base some of the residential area off of places like Cherokee Park and the Highlands and just those areas too, which is similar to what we will be seeing over the next few weeks.

Metro Council is now looking at what used to be called missing middle housing or neighborhood housing.

It's just interesting because the younger generation of people and the older generation of people are sort of yearning for this community thing.

Though Tony Jones never became a person of interest in his mother's murder, he did get his hands bloodied.

In Louisville, there is a popular meeting place called Cherokee Park, which is popular with gay men as a place to congregate for sex.

Tony didn't like this, not one bit.

One night he went to Cherokee Park to, in his words, go, quote, hunting queers.

He lured 36-year-old Richard Gilman to an isolated area and shot him to death, merely because of his sexual proclivities.

He was soon charged with murder, and prosecutors indicated they would seek the death penalty.

But for now, what is your favorite local parks?

I'm still a big fan of Parklands, but I also have recently been loving Cherokee just because my friends live on Speed Avenue.

So we'll go to their apartment complex and then walk over and then do the loop.

And it's just convenient.

Heck yeah.

I

was going to say Cherokee too because I grew up going there and hanging out at Big Rock and doing all those things.

Highlands things.

But yeah, we're going to, you know, go hike on over to the chauffeur's rest.

which is one of my favorite parts of Cherokee Park, which I don't think I've mentioned it yet, but today's hike is in Cherokee Park, which is essentially my home park.

It's one of the places that I spent a lot of time growing up, probably an equal amount of hours here in this park as I did in all the other parks in this area combined.

And there's just something nostalgic about it for me.

Campbell Overlook.

And as you can see, we've got some local kids out there smoking pot in the trees as they should be.

Just one of the most beautiful areas that really exists in Cherokee Park.

I'm a big fan of Dog Hill, but I like this one because it is not nearly as populated as Dog Hill usually is.