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Month: April 2016
An occasional look at premium travel from Louisville.
Where: Prague. When: June 1-8. Airline: Delta. Itinerary: Louisville to Atlanta to Amsterdam to Prague. How much: $6,832. Delta reservations.
Related: TripAdvisor’s Prague page, where you can read more about the Old Town Square, pictured above. Airbnb Prague rentals.
She’s on an out-of-town trip, according to The Courier-JournalJ. From the Speed’s website:
Anthony van Dyck
Flemish, 1599 ‑ 1641
Portrait of a Woman, about 1635
Oil on canvas
29 1/2 ×23 inches (74.9 × 58.4 cm)
Museum purchase, Preston Pope Satterwhite Fund
About the painting’s donor
In an important milestone for the Speed in 1941, Dr. Preston Pope Satterwhite gave the museum his collection of 15th- and 16th-century French and Italian Decorative Arts tapestries and furniture.
Satterwhite was born in 1867 Great Neck, N.Y., but lived in Louisville until he was 25, when he moved to New York to complete his medical internship and residency, according to the Encyclopedia of Louisville. He became a successful surgeon and well-known art collector. His ancestors, the Breckinridges and Prestons, were early settlers in Kentucky. Satterwhite died in New York in 1948.
He and his wife are buried in Cave Hill Cemetery in one of the most elaborate memorials there. Erected in 1928 of pink Italian marble, the “Temple of Love” is a copy of Marie Antoinette’s ornate structure in her Petite Trianon garden at the Palace of Versailles in Paris.
Here’s a Find A Grave photo of Satterwhite and his wife, Florence in front of their 1927 Rolls-Royce Phantom 1 at their estate in Great Neck.
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PAPA JOHN’S: Rising R&B singer Bryson Tiller, who plays the second of two shows today at Radio City Music Hall, was discovered when he was working 12-hour shifts at a Papa John’s in his native Louisville. Three years ago, producer Timbaland heard his early song “Don’t” and encouraged Tiller, 23, to quit his job to focus on music (NY Post). He also worked at UPS (Wikipedia). Here’s a video of “Don’t.” (NSFW!) More Papa John’s news.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best-known novel chronicles the star-crossed romance between Louisville debutante Daisy Fay Buchanan and a local soldier, the future tycoon Jay Gatsby. In this passage set in summer 1922, Gatsby; Daisy, and her husband Tom Buchanan are in a suite at New York’s Plaza Hotel. Daisy’s childhood friend Jordan Baker is also there, and a wedding is taking place in the ballroom below.
“Imagine marrying anybody in this heat!” cried Jordan dismally.
“Still — I was married in the middle of June,” Daisy remembered, “Louisville in June! Somebody fainted. Who was it fainted, Tom?”
“A man named Biloxi. ‘Blocks’ Biloxi, and he made boxes — that’s a fact — and he was from Biloxi, Mississippi.”
“They carried him into my house,” appended Jordan, “because we lived just two doors from the church. And he stayed three weeks, until Daddy told him he had to get out. The day after he left Daddy died.” After a moment she added as if she might have sounded irreverent, “There wasn’t any connection.”
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HUMANA declared a regular quarterly dividend of 29 cents a share, payable July 29 to stockholders of record June 30. Also, the healthcare giant said it will continue its financial support of Actors Theatre’s festival of new plays through 2019; Humana has been the lead underwriter for 37 years.
GE plans to outsource its distribution operation at Appliance Park, a move that would affect about 200 union jobs (WDRB). The announcement followed the release of a letter today that contained uncharacteristically harsh criticism of the performance of workers (CJ).
KINDRED was issued four building permits by the city yesterday, indicating it’s ready to start work on its planned $36 million office building in the Theater Square commercial district on Fourth Street near the Brown Hotel (CJ). The expansion will accommodate up to 500 new employees, and follows Kindred’s October 2014 purchase of Gentiva, an Atlanta-based home health and hospice provider (AJC).
PNC will vacate the PNC Plaza Tower on Jefferson Street, moving 300 employees to the National City Tower as the bank consolidates its combined 600 downtown employees in one place. No word on what will happen to PNC Plaza naming rights (WDRB).
PAPA JOHN’S has now eliminated all high-fructose corn syrup from its menu, a plan first announced in June (press release). The ingredient was one of 14 the company said it would remove in June as it reinforced its “better ingredients, better pizza” slogan (Food Business News).
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