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Travel: A visit to Rosine, KY, the birthdplace of Bill Monroe

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From dispatches from Joe Hare

Joe and Pat Hare stopped by Jerusalem Ridge, Rosine, KY on their way back from the Black Lions Reunion in Chicago at the end of September this year, just a little past Monroe's birthday on September 13 (1911) and the anniversary of his death on September 9 (1996).

"My wife is a big fan of Bill Monroe's music," Joe Hare writes. "She had been wanting see his homeplace for a long time," and on this trip, it was a convenient stop.



"The house House is well restored and very neat, with a lot of period correct furniture which was there when the Monroe's lived there," Joe Hare writes.br>
"Jerusalem Ridge is a pretty, neat place," he writes, "with lots of woods all around."br>
Rosine, KY, where Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass Music, was born, is not so far away, but it isn't in a direction so often visited by Adair Countians. From the Adair County Courthouse, the distance is about 110 miles taking the scenic route to Cave City, across the Mammoth Cave Park, to Brownsville and on to Beaver Dam and Rosine.br>
Going by the Louie B. Nunn, William Natcher, and the Western Kentucky Parkway, the distance is a little less in time, a little more in distance - about 120 miles - and still a gorgeous drive. Either way, the travel time should be 2.5 hours or less.


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Bill Monroe home at Rosine, KY



2009-12-14 - Rosine, KY - Photo by Joe Hare. Pat Hare got the answer to a long time wish to visit the birthplace of Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass Music, at Rosine, KY. The occasion was a return from a Black Lions reunion with her husband in September. Rosine isn't on a lot of Adair Countians' radar, but it's really just a pleasant Daytrip from Columbia, KY. By the parkways, it is around 120 miles; cross country by blue highways, around 110. Either way, it takes around 2.5 hours travel time, not county pleasant dawdles along the way. ColumbiaMagazine.com Group at Flickr.com
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Visit to Rosine, KY: Jerusalem Ridge



2009-12-14 - Ohio Co., KY - Photo by Joe Hare. One of the scenic views at Jerusalem Ridge, the home of the late Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass Music. ColumbiaMagazine.com Group at Flickr.com
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