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7 unusual facts about Bowling Green


Bowling Green, Wiesbaden

The Bowling Green is often used for open-air events for example held concerts by Leonard Cohen, R.E.M., Sting, Nelly Furtado, Bryan Adams, Plácido Domingo, Lionel Richie, Eric Clapton, Elton John and Herbert Grönemeyer.

David Elson

The Hoosiers made their first road trip of the year to play Elson's former team, the WKU Hilltoppers in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

G. Waldo Dunnington

Guy Waldo Dunnington (January 15, 1906, Bowling Green, Missouri – April 10, 1974, Natchitoches, Louisiana) was a writer, historian and professor of German known for his writings on the famous German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Ray E. Heady

Heady devoted his entire adult adult life to the ministry of pastoring several churches in the North Texas area except for two years while pastoring in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Stacy Curtis

Curtis and his twin brother grew up in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where the young Stacy dreamed of working on a comic strip.

Warren County Airport

Bowling Green-Warren County Regional Airport in Warren County, Kentucky, United States (FAA: BWG)

Western Kentucky Lady Toppers basketball

The Western Kentucky Lady Toppers basketball team represents Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


2008 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team

Middle Tennessee put itself back in strong position to become bowl eligible following an impressive 21-10 win against hated rival Western Kentucky, on a cold rainy/snowy day in Bowling Green, KY.

2nd Ohio Infantry

It served in a number of posts in Kentucky, including Louisville, through February 1862, when it was part of the army's advance on Confederate-held Bowling Green and Nashville.

37th parallel north

Landmarks on the 37th parallel include Santa Cruz, California; Gilroy, California; Madera, California; Ubehebe Crater in Death Valley; Colorado City, Arizona; the Four Corners at the intersection with the 32nd meridian west from Washington (the only place where four U.S. states meet at a point); Cairo, Illinois; Bowling Green, Kentucky; and Newport News, Virginia.

Baron Aviation Services

March 5, 1998: Flight 8315, a Cessna 208 Caravan leased from FedEx departed on a cargo flight from Memphis en route to Bowling Green when radar and radio contact was lost.

Black and White Taxicab and Transfer Company v. Brown and Yellow Taxicab and Transfer Company

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad signed an exclusive contract with the Black and White Taxicab company to pick up customers at the railroad station in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Chris Keyser

Under the name Fairview Community Health Center, BG/WCPCC now operates two clinical facilities in Bowling Green and one in Morgantown, Kentucky.

Debdale Park

Located in the grounds of Debdale Park there is a large secondary school, Wright Robinson College, and also a bowling green, sports centre and an 18 hole golf course and club.

George Gustav Heye Center

That museum closed in 1994 and part of the collection is now housed at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House on Bowling Green in Lower Manhattan.

Kathia Rodriguez

Later that year, Rodriguez joined her husband in Bowling Green, OH, where he was a student in the Master in Accountancy Program at Bowling Green State University.

Larz Anderson Park

A self-guided walking tour brings visitors past museum, the Putterham School, the water garden, Chinese garden, Japanese garden, Italian garden and bowling green.

Louisiana, Missouri

The latter enters Louisiana from Illinois via the Champ Clark Bridge, named for a former US Speaker of the House from nearby Bowling Green.

Marrowbone, Cumberland County, Kentucky

In March 2010, nine congregants of the Marrowbone Christian Brotherhood Mennonite Church were among eleven killed on Interstate 65 near Bowling Green and Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky's deadliest vehicle wreck in 20 years.

Sun Products

Sun Products, owned by Vestar Capital Partners, maintains manufacturing facilities in Baltimore, Maryland; Bowling Green, Kentucky; Pasadena, Texas; Dyersburg, Tennessee; and Salt Lake City, Utah.


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Alfred Leland Crabb

He wrote two books about his native state, Home to Kentucky: A Novel of Henry Clay in 1953, and Peace at Bowling Green (1955) a story of a community from the pioneer times of 1803 to the end of the Civil War.

Andrew J. Offutt

They have four children; author Chris Offutt, Jeff Offutt, Professor of Software Engineering at George Mason University, Scotty Hyde, copy editor for the Park City Daily News in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Melissa Offutt, who is a sales executive for Sprint in San Diego.

Aston Park, Flintshire

In the village there are some shops, a hairdresser, an Indian takeaway, a bowling green, a park, a primary school and a hospital, Deeside Community Hospital.

Bowling Green Falcons baseball

The stadium is located on the Bowling Green campus, next to BGSU Ice Arena and across the street from Perry Field House.

Bowling Green Hot Rods

The "Hot Rods" name refers to the connections that Bowling Green has to the automotive and racing industries such the National Corvette Museum, Holley Carburetor, Beech Bend Raceway and the Bowling Green Assembly Plant, which is the only location in the world that produces General Motors' Chevrolet Corvette.

Carroll Knicely

While serving in the state's Commerce Cabinet as commissioner, he helped secure the location of the General Motors Corvette plant in Bowling Green in 1981.

Chris Keyser

Chris Marie Keyser is the Executive Director of the Bowling Green/Warren County Primary Care Center, Inc., a Federally Qualified Health Center providing primary care services to the poor of South-Central Kentucky.

Dan Mullen

As a coach, Mullen has tutored several notable players, including quarterbacks Alex Smith (Utah), Josh Harris (Bowling Green), Chris Leak (Florida) and Heisman Trophy-winner Tim Tebow (Florida).

Eugene Lukacs

On his retirement from Catholic University in 1972, he moved with his colleagues Laha and Rohatgi to Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, where he remained until 1976.

Guyra, New South Wales

The local bowling club boasts of being the highest (elevation above sea level) bowling green in the southern hemisphere, which is in fact not correct as there are several lawn bowling clubs in Johannesburg, South Africa, which is at several hundred metres higher elevation than Guyra.

Island platform

In Jersey City, the Newport PATH station has the same configuration as Bowling Green—one side platform and one island platform.

Joe Denning

While serving as a Kentucky State Police trooper, he became the first black ever elected to public office in Bowling Green and Warren County as member of the Bowling Green School Board in 1975.

Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad

A small collection of materials, primarily consisting of correspondence to and from the company, is held at the Center for Archival Collections at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio under the catalog number MS-177.

Leah D'Emilio

During her undergraduate career at Bowling Green, Leah was a member of the Speech and Debate team, winning many awards at both the regional and national level.

Liverpool Medical Institution

This was formerly the site of an inn and a bowling green, which was the birthplace of the businessman and amateur scientist William Roscoe.

Ormond Robbins

Selected tales of Grim and Grue from the Horror Pulps, Sheldon Jaffery, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1987, ISBN 87972-391-2, ISBN 87972-392-0.

Ray B. McCandless

He served as the head football coach at Chadron State College in 1919, at Nebraska Wesleyan University from 1920 to 1922, at Bowling Green State Normal School—now Bowling Green State University— in 1923, and at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia for the 1924 season, and compiling a career college football record of 23–24–4.

WBGU

WBGU-TV, a television station (channel 27 digital only) licensed to Bowling Green, Ohio, United States

WBKO-DT2

Viewers living in Warren, Butler, Hart, Edmonson, Barren, and Metcalfe Counties in South Central Kentucky are eligible to switch to Bowling Green local stations.

William Huston Natcher

Also named in Natcher's honor in 1997 is the William H. Natcher Green River Parkway, a Kentucky state parkway (formerly a toll road) that runs between Bowling Green and Owensboro.

WKYU

WKYU-FM, a radio station (88.9 FM) licensed to Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States

WKYU-TV, a television station (channel 24 analog/18 digital) licensed to Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States

WKYU-TV

Its transmitter is located 6 miles (10 km) north of Bowling Green on KY 185, while its studio is located on College Heights Boulevard on the WKU campus alongside sister National Public Radio network WKU Public Radio.

YSU Academic Challenge

A new version of this show premiered on December 11, 2010 on WNWO-TV in Toledo, OH and on December 12, 2010 on WBGU-TV in Bowling Green, OH.

Zach Azzanni

Add that to the record breaking players he has coached in Antonio Brown (CMU), Charles Sharon (Bowling Green), and Western Kentucky running back Bobby Rainey.