We really enjoyed visiting the Muhammad Ali Center in downtown Louisville. I was impressed how the center handled all
aspects of Ali’s career–boxer, activist, humanitarian–in a straightforward, warts-and-all manner. You hear him calling white people `devils’; you also hear him say that a 60 year old man who thinks the same things that he did when he was thirty has wasted thirty years. I also liked how they presented many fights by projecting them onto the mat of a full-size boxing ring (above). Later, after lunch, we drove to Bardstown and toured the Jim Beam distillery. The 90 minute tour was about 30 minutes too long, but at least I now know a little bit about why bourbon is bourbon and not whiskey or mash.
