Louisville sluggers: Kentucky power couple Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson are bringing new life to both downtown Louisville and their 19th-century farmhouse.

W, July, 2006 by Comita, Jenny

In Kentucky horse country, it's nearly impossible to discern a man's social standing by the car in his driveway or the watch on his wrist. The region has its own set of status symbols, which, though no less powerful, aren't obvious to the untrained eye. The type of fence that surrounds one's thoroughbred farm matters--four horizontal slats denote more prosperity than three--as do the initials stamped on the bottom of one's silver mint-julep cups. (They indicate who was president in the year the vessel was made. Old julep cups, of course, suggest old money) But perhaps most telling is the company one keeps on Derby day, the climax of Louisville's social swirl. On that front, Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson are hard to beat. This year two members of Congress, the...

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