For two seasons, KET’s Louisville-based team have had the privilege of sharing the amazing people, places, and stories of our city throughout Kentucky. Our January 12th episode took our viewers ‘Inside the Portland Neighborhood.’
Tag: Portland History
I REMEMBER: Portland Taverns of the Past (1970s)
What are your memories of these places? We thought it would be fun to share some ads from the Portland Anchor in the 1970s, showing the vast amount of drinking establishments in the Portland neighborhood.
I REMEMBER: Anchoring the News with the Courier Journal (August, 2007)
Portland Anchor volunteers, from left: Charles Frick, Alma Wright, Gordon Brown, and Tim Crabtree. “Somehow, everyone started calling me the editor,” Alma Wright recalled. “One day I asked Gordon, ‘Am I the editor?’ and he said, ‘You’re the editor.'”
Bardstown Woman Recalls Tragedy and Triumph Living on Shippingport
Read the story of 80-year-old Linda Kramer, who sat down with the Portland Anchor to discuss her memories growing up on Louisville’s historic Shippingport Island during its waning days of the 1950s.
I REMEMBER: The Honey Bee-Bumble Bee (August, 1984)
Forty years ago in August 1984 the Portland Anchor was filled front-to-back with “thank you”s from members of the Portland community regarding that year’s Portland Festival and Homecoming, but slotted in-between was this wonderful little treatise on the importance of bees!