Had to taste Graefter's...the Cinn City's ice cream special
Historical Panels on the Covington side
The Amos Shinkle Townhouse B&B
The Cock and Bull English Pub, Mainstrasse, Covington...lovely restored district in Covington
Left to Right: Quilt piece at the Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cormorant Fisherman statue in Twin Lakes Park, Roebling Suspension Bridge over the Ohio River (precursor to the Brooklyn Bridge), Foyer of the Cinncinnati Art Museum and lunch in the CAM parking lot.
Nothing like a dose of rain to dampen the bliss of car camping. In Cinncinnati we decided to slip indoors, the first night to a rather undesirable downtown hotel (avoid the Quality Inn on 8th St.) and then to the opposite experience of a soulful B&B, the Amos Shinkle Townhouse B&B, on Garrard Street in Covington, KY. Having lived in Kentucky, I had passed through Cinn City and Covington many times traveling too and fro to the east. So, this trip afforded a delightful stopover. On opposite sides of the Ohio River, the two cities founded by German emigrants, were on opposite sides during the Civil War. The Ohio River was the divide between slave and free and the Underground Railroad was active in this area. Although there was no guarantee that by reaching the Ohio shore a slave was safe. Many moved north from there to Canada where they truly reached their freedom.
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