Sitting [east] of downtown Louisville, Shelbyville is watched over by a statue of Squire Boone, Daniel’s kid brother, who established the first European settlement in what would become Shelby County. Now the county seat, its downtown was taken over by the cast and crew of the 2023 film about the life of author Flannery O’Connor, Wildcat, set in the 1950s. But Hollywood embellishment is superfluous. Shelby Main Street, the town’s central district, is Americana to the core, with long-standing antique and collectible shops, a clarinet purveyor, and old-time eateries.
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