The Kentucky State Fair Board activities account for $453 million annually in economic impact for Louisville and the Commonwealth of Kentucky?
The tourism industry in Kentucky grown nearly 24% in the last three years creating more then 6000 new jobs?
Through Kentucky Arts Council support, arts organizations provided nearly six million arts experiences last year to the people of Kentucky?
Hunting, fishing, boating and wildlife watching fund 60,000 Kentucky jobs?
The Kentucky Horse Park is the home of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games Kentucky 2010?
That Kentucky has 17 resort hotels with lodges and cottages, more than any other state park system in the U.S.A.?
The Kentucky Exposition Center is home to the nation’s largest indoor agricultural exposition – the National Farm Machinery Show.
Kentucky will be home to 14 international sporting events over the next five years?
That tourism adds $10.1 billion per year to Kentucky’s economy and currently employs 176,000 Kentuckians?
The Kentucky Historical Society owns, cares for, and shares more than 600,000 artifacts relating to the commonwealth's rich history?
The Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea displays and sells works by over 650 Kentucky artisans?
That Kentucky has more shoreline than Florida, because of its many lakes and waterways?
That Kentucky features the largest elk herd east of the Rocky Mountains?
Kentucky ranks 4th in the nation with the number of sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places?
That up to 175,000 visitors, including 30,000 schoolchildren from at least 100 Kentucky counties, come to the Kentucky Historical Society each year?
The Kentucky Arts Council provides operational support funding for 104 arts organizations and marketing assistance for 588 artists in Kentucky?
Last year, over 650 performances took place on Kentucky Center stages?
Governor’s School for the Arts is celebrating it 20th anniversary this year, and has served over 3,400 high school students, from 119 counties in its summer program?
The Kentucky Exposition Center is home to five of the nation’s top 25 largest trade shows.
That Kentucky is the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln?
That Kentucky is the birthplace of Muhammad Ali, the man called “The Greatest”?
That Kentucky offers more than 1500 miles of marked and maintained hiking trails?
That Kentucky’s state parks have 32 campgrounds and 20 golf courses?
That Mammoth Cave – located in Kentucky – features the longest cave system in the world?
That Kentucky features – at Cumberland Falls—the largest waterfall in North America south of Niagara Falls?
That the Kentucky Historical Society has placed more than 2,200 historical highway markers in all 120 Kentucky counties?
That the Kentucky Historical Society was founded in 1836 and is more than 170 years old?
That nearly 20,000 people annually use the Martin F. Schmidt Library at the Kentucky Historical Society for research either on site, by phone, or by e-mail?
The Kentucky Exposition Center is the sixth largest exposition facility in the nation.
That nearly 120 historical organizations in 55 counties are members of the Historic Confederation of Kentucky, sponsored by the Kentucky Historical Society?
The Register, published by the Kentucky Historical Society, is the oldest and now only publication devoted exclusively to Kentucky history?
Governor’s School for the Arts serves over 1,000 students each year with its outreach programs throughout the state?
That tourism in Kentucky is responsible for $3.3 billion in payroll and $952 million in tax revenue?
The Kentucky Exposition Center is home to the world’s richest and most prestigious American Saddlebred show – the World’s Championship Horse Show?
Over the past three years, the Kentucky Historical Society has partnered with 27 school districts in 17 eastern Kentucky counties to provide more than $2.5 million in teacher training and services for history and social studies teachers?