October 28, 2025 • 10 mins
The Frazier Museum and Davis Jewelers are celebrating love and marriage with a special exhibit of Kentucky connected expressions of getting cuffed.
Simon Meiners and his dad discuss on 84WHAS.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's this this love.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
This love.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Is this love that I'm feeling. It's this this love,
this loves this Bob Marley and the Whalers. Of course,
first off, let's send a little love toward Jamaica. We
hear all these reports about the impending hurricane situation. Just
wishing everybody well there this is it's tough with getting
(00:27):
this storm season. You never quite know what's going to happen,
and just just hoping somehow it just bounces away and
doesn't harm any human beings. For sure. I have a
good friend. Is this love? Well, it's not always relationships.
Sometimes it's just father and son. We like to hang
out together. Simon Miners, welcome back to my studio. Good
(00:48):
to be here. Thank you for having me. I wish
you could co host for me sometime when we'll, like,
if I'm taking a few days off, come over. I'd
absolutely do that. But you you do a great job
with the Frasier History Museum, and it's the Frasier is
just so important to our community in so many ways.
But you do various programs and tell people about your
(01:10):
exactly what you do overall for them?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Well, oh my title, Well, I work in marketing. We
got a department with two folks in marketing. I do
pr outreach, I read our marketing, our press releases. I
do all our social media TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, I do
cold call pitches to media members such as yourself local TV,
to try to get live shots or wrangle some sort
of publicity for whatever program or exhibition we've got going on.
(01:34):
We've got, for instance, next week, JCPS is off on Monday,
so we're doing a pop up camp. So tomorrow you're
gonna get an e blaster up press release for me
saying hey, parents, if you're scrambling for some childcare or
something for your kids to do on Monday with JCPS
out come to the Fraser Museum perf all sorts of
things retail. We do events, weddings at the museum.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
People mention your TikTok account to me all the time
because you interview people and you're great at it. I appreciate.
I saw you with ten As not long ago. He
was a delight.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, I'd never met him before. So we have a
model t parked outside the Fraser Museum and I would
live for people to identify with that the way they
identify the parabolic mirror, the triceratops with the Science Center,
the penguins with twenty one C. I want them to
see the model t and think of the Fraser History Museum.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So I started.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Interviewing local community members and staff, Fraser staff members in
that model Tea and Teddy came by a couple weeks ago,
and he was delightful talking to him.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
He bragged about you a lot to me. He was
very impressed with your interviewing skills.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
He's doing great things with the Louisville Orchestra.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, there's no doubt about it. So we started with
the lyrics is this Love? Is this love? And that
connects to the Fraser as well.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
That's right. Next week, Thursday, November six, We've got a
wonderful program called is this Love that I'm feeling? And
it is love and marriage themed, because if you don't know,
right now, we have an exhibition open called Davis Jeweler's
Love and Marriage and it's a history of love, courtship
and marriage in the state of Kentucky. We've got wedding
dresses going back to the eighteen hundreds. We've got wonderful
wedding jewelry we've got different cultures represented. A Palestinian's bridle
(03:01):
shower dress. We've got a Nigerian woman who got married
in Appalachia. We've got her coral colored dress and beads
on display. We've got stuff going back to the Gilded
Age from Madam Glover All these you know, people who
were married inside Mammoth Cave. We've got postcards of that
very Kentucky centric wedding traditions. So next week we've got
this wonderful love and marriage theme program called is This
Love that I'm Feeling. We're inviting it as like a
(03:23):
couple's night or a night out with the girls, and
it's gonna have I think a game show newlywed style
or game type, so you can ask who is the
better driver him or her? Or who said I love
you first? What is your pet name for your loved one?
So we'll do that sort of stick but we'll also
have a wonderful panel discussion with our reps from Davis
(03:43):
Jeweler's and Jewelers Mutual, Ashley Davis, who's the VP of
Davis Tours, which is like a ninety five year old
it's like almost one hundred year old local business right
great in the community here Davis Stewarts, so they're a
title sponsor. But we're gonna have a thirty minute panel
discussion where you can learn all about the trends and jewelry.
It's gonna be moderate by Jeweler's Mutual Insurance's jewelry trends experts,
so we can track trends in the industry, learn about
(04:06):
getting your jewelry insured. You can actually try on some
really wonderful posh jewelry pieces at the event. We will
have My favorite panelist is going to be Shla Keremy.
Are you familiar with this? Name? Is the name everybody
should know, I think. Let me ask you this. Did
you watch the Chiefs game last night?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Only a part of it because we were watching the
World series? And also the voice we're triangulated.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Of course I bring that up because I see Travis
Kelcey on my TV. I always think of Shla Keramy.
Shaa Keramy is a jewelry designer from Oldham County, Kentucky.
Right She went to U of L. She studied there
and she moved to New York, you know, ten fifteen
years ago to pursue her dream of being a big
time jewelry designer, and she succeeded. She now has a
ton of celebrity clients, Hayley Bieber's, Zoey Sell, Donna Reese, Witherspoon,
(04:54):
and Taylor Swift. So if you see these photos of
Taylor Swift when she was kissing Travis Kelcey fter who
won the Super Bowl, if you zoom in on her finger,
you see her wearing a toe I think it's a
topaz maybe ring. She's wearing a ring designed by Shaala Keremy.
This Persian woman who grew up in Oldham County, Kentucky.
Now in her family, I mean a lot of Persian families,
like jewelry is very normal from a young age. So
(05:14):
she's been wearing jewelry and rings since she was like
two weeks old, and that's informed her whole identity in
her style. And she has I've read the interviews where
she talks about being informed by the architecture in Louisville
and at the University of Louisville. So there's she carries
a lot of her Kentucky identity with her in her
creative output as a jewelry designer. But she's, like I said,
Taylor Swift is one of her biggest clients. So she's
going to be a panelist here at this museum event
(05:37):
next week Thursday, November six, so you can talk to
her about what's it like designing rings for Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Exactly, And that would certainly change the game for her
career once you get the Swift the endorsement. Of course,
there's no you can't come back to Earth after that, right, right,
So she deals with a lot of big name clients
like that. But I mean we'll talk to like, yeah,
Jewors Mutual's trends expert, we'll talk about someone from the
different jewelry riders from different magazines and they can also
(06:03):
we're gonna have a drawing where basically anybody in attendance
that night is automatically entered into this drawing and the
winner gets a retail value three thousand dollars fourteen carrot
white gold herd Bar diamond necklace. That's a fourteen carrot
white gold necklace worth twenty nine and ninety five dollars retail.
I bet Travis Kelsey can't afford that.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, I don't know about that, But any anybody who
gets a ticket to this event next week is entered automatically,
so you know, just think that's a nice little hitch.
That is a nice incentive there.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
And Davis Jewelers obviously I do commercials for them on
this station. Davis Jewelers, they are your title sponsors and
they're involved and it's actually going to be part of
this game.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
She's going to be on that panel there as well. Actually,
I saw her speak at the Derby Museum. She's really
she's good in front of crowd. She is she I mean,
I did TV with her about a year ago, and
she was so fascinating talking about I asked her about
lab grown diamonds and she said, this is an industry
disruptor in our industry.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
She talked about.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I mean, she's really educated on things like the whole
evolution of this style of engagement and wedding rings, and
we incorporated this into our exhibit. We have a whole
timeline of you know, it's the choices you make when
you walk into Davis Jeers and you make a decision
based on to get an engagement ring or a wedding ring.
It's affected by a lot of things. It's not just
you going in there in a vacuum and making a
choice as a consumer. It's the legalization of the manufacturing
(07:26):
of carrot gold in the eighteen fifties affected. You've got
economic restraints and the Great Depression and the Great Recession.
You've got celebrity weddings like Princess Diana's wedding, popularized sapphire rings.
You've got you know, Art Deco and modernism and big
esthetic trends that ebb and flow, and it affects the
way that the consumer thinks when they walk into the
shop to make their decision.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Fascinating. Did I see Heather French Henry connected somehow to
the wedding the marriage program that you have. That's great.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
The exhibition is on the second floor of the museum.
But if you walk into the Fraser Museum, flanking our
staircase right there, we've got this beautiful wedding dress on
the left and groom's tucks and tails on the right,
and those belonged to Heather French and Steve Henry who
were married October twenty seventh, two thousand, which yesterday was
their twenty fifth anniversary.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
That be doll.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
So this is why it showed up in your Facebook feed.
Probably we did a post about that, and that was
a big that was that wedding was a huge affair
that was held at the Cathedral of the Assumption in
Little one of the oldest churches in the state of Kentucky, right,
and it accommodated this huge crowd. And I mean she
had this beautiful long train as well, So that was
a historic event. She had just finished, I think a
few days prior, she'd finished her year as Miss America
(08:35):
two thousand and he was then lieutenant governor of the
state of Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, they were both here a month ago, and she
looks the same she does. Yeah, Steve is aged maybe
two three years. That's it. But I know he teases
me all the time too.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Love those kids, but yeah, they're sort of the folks
that greet you when you come into this exhibit. You
see this because that's a historic wedding right there in
Kentucky history. So you see these garments that were worn
at that particular event. So you get tickets to this event,
you can come tour that exhibit, you can stick around
for this game show, this panel discussion. Mary Dowling Whiskey
Company's going to have tastings. They're going to have a
(09:09):
welcome cocktail of past appetizers as well. It's all included
in admission. I think it's thirty five maybe thirty nine
dollars for a thing, okay, and where we go got
Fraser Museum dot org and tickets are limited, so i'd
encourage you to act fast.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
It's November sixth.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Thursday, November six. You can tour that in all the
other wonderful exhibitions we've got. We've got exhibits on Kentucky history,
Kentucky bourbon, Kentucky counties. As you know, I'm trying to
visit all the counties in Kentucky. We've got about we've
got one hundred and twenty. I've been to about sixty
or seventy. I mean, how many do you think you have?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Far fewer than that, really, yeah, yeah, I mean I
flew to a bunch of places for fun. Sure, I
used to just flying wherever there's an airport. I've been
to that county.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
But the beautiful thing in this wedding is exhibit. You
can look at the tombstone on each dress and it'll
say this bride was married at this Episcopal church in Lebanon,
Marion County Kentucky and blah blah blah. This woman is
from the tobacco fields and Katie's and she got married
in Hopkinsville in eighteen eighty nine. Look at her rust
colored dress.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I love the sound of this. It's very cool. Is
this love? Is this love? Simon Minors? I love you, son,
Love you too. Thanks for reporting to me on our
basketball cardinals the other night. You went the other night
and I at NOD.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
So yeah, that Peterson guy is definitely number one in
a lot of NBA mock drafts for a reason.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Good to know. And we enjoyed football together too, Simon Minors,
my son, and we're coming back in a few here
on news radio Waight forty whas
It's this this love.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
This love.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Is this love that I'm feeling. It's this this love,
this loves this Bob Marley and the Whalers. Of course,
first off, let's send a little love toward Jamaica. We
hear all these reports about the impending hurricane situation. Just
wishing everybody well there this is it's tough with getting
(00:27):
this storm season. You never quite know what's going to happen,
and just just hoping somehow it just bounces away and
doesn't harm any human beings. For sure. I have a
good friend. Is this love? Well, it's not always relationships.
Sometimes it's just father and son. We like to hang
out together. Simon Miners, welcome back to my studio. Good
(00:48):
to be here. Thank you for having me. I wish
you could co host for me sometime when we'll, like,
if I'm taking a few days off, come over. I'd
absolutely do that. But you you do a great job
with the Frasier History Museum, and it's the Frasier is
just so important to our community in so many ways.
But you do various programs and tell people about your
(01:10):
exactly what you do overall for them?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Well, oh my title, Well, I work in marketing. We
got a department with two folks in marketing. I do
pr outreach, I read our marketing, our press releases. I
do all our social media TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, I do
cold call pitches to media members such as yourself local TV,
to try to get live shots or wrangle some sort
of publicity for whatever program or exhibition we've got going on.
(01:34):
We've got, for instance, next week, JCPS is off on Monday,
so we're doing a pop up camp. So tomorrow you're
gonna get an e blaster up press release for me
saying hey, parents, if you're scrambling for some childcare or
something for your kids to do on Monday with JCPS
out come to the Fraser Museum perf all sorts of
things retail. We do events, weddings at the museum.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
People mention your TikTok account to me all the time
because you interview people and you're great at it. I appreciate.
I saw you with ten As not long ago. He
was a delight.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, I'd never met him before. So we have a
model t parked outside the Fraser Museum and I would
live for people to identify with that the way they
identify the parabolic mirror, the triceratops with the Science Center,
the penguins with twenty one C. I want them to
see the model t and think of the Fraser History Museum.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So I started.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Interviewing local community members and staff, Fraser staff members in
that model Tea and Teddy came by a couple weeks ago,
and he was delightful talking to him.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
He bragged about you a lot to me. He was
very impressed with your interviewing skills.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
He's doing great things with the Louisville Orchestra.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, there's no doubt about it. So we started with
the lyrics is this Love? Is this love? And that
connects to the Fraser as well.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
That's right. Next week, Thursday, November six, We've got a
wonderful program called is this Love that I'm feeling? And
it is love and marriage themed, because if you don't know,
right now, we have an exhibition open called Davis Jeweler's
Love and Marriage and it's a history of love, courtship
and marriage in the state of Kentucky. We've got wedding
dresses going back to the eighteen hundreds. We've got wonderful
wedding jewelry we've got different cultures represented. A Palestinian's bridle
(03:01):
shower dress. We've got a Nigerian woman who got married
in Appalachia. We've got her coral colored dress and beads
on display. We've got stuff going back to the Gilded
Age from Madam Glover All these you know, people who
were married inside Mammoth Cave. We've got postcards of that
very Kentucky centric wedding traditions. So next week we've got
this wonderful love and marriage theme program called is This
Love that I'm Feeling. We're inviting it as like a
(03:23):
couple's night or a night out with the girls, and
it's gonna have I think a game show newlywed style
or game type, so you can ask who is the
better driver him or her? Or who said I love
you first? What is your pet name for your loved one?
So we'll do that sort of stick but we'll also
have a wonderful panel discussion with our reps from Davis
(03:43):
Jeweler's and Jewelers Mutual, Ashley Davis, who's the VP of
Davis Tours, which is like a ninety five year old
it's like almost one hundred year old local business right
great in the community here Davis Stewarts, so they're a
title sponsor. But we're gonna have a thirty minute panel
discussion where you can learn all about the trends and jewelry.
It's gonna be moderate by Jeweler's Mutual Insurance's jewelry trends experts,
so we can track trends in the industry, learn about
(04:06):
getting your jewelry insured. You can actually try on some
really wonderful posh jewelry pieces at the event. We will
have My favorite panelist is going to be Shla Keremy.
Are you familiar with this? Name? Is the name everybody
should know, I think. Let me ask you this. Did
you watch the Chiefs game last night?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Only a part of it because we were watching the
World series? And also the voice we're triangulated.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Of course I bring that up because I see Travis
Kelcey on my TV. I always think of Shla Keramy.
Shaa Keramy is a jewelry designer from Oldham County, Kentucky.
Right She went to U of L. She studied there
and she moved to New York, you know, ten fifteen
years ago to pursue her dream of being a big
time jewelry designer, and she succeeded. She now has a
ton of celebrity clients, Hayley Bieber's, Zoey Sell, Donna Reese, Witherspoon,
(04:54):
and Taylor Swift. So if you see these photos of
Taylor Swift when she was kissing Travis Kelcey fter who
won the Super Bowl, if you zoom in on her finger,
you see her wearing a toe I think it's a
topaz maybe ring. She's wearing a ring designed by Shaala Keremy.
This Persian woman who grew up in Oldham County, Kentucky.
Now in her family, I mean a lot of Persian families,
like jewelry is very normal from a young age. So
(05:14):
she's been wearing jewelry and rings since she was like
two weeks old, and that's informed her whole identity in
her style. And she has I've read the interviews where
she talks about being informed by the architecture in Louisville
and at the University of Louisville. So there's she carries
a lot of her Kentucky identity with her in her
creative output as a jewelry designer. But she's, like I said,
Taylor Swift is one of her biggest clients. So she's
going to be a panelist here at this museum event
(05:37):
next week Thursday, November six, so you can talk to
her about what's it like designing rings for Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Exactly, And that would certainly change the game for her
career once you get the Swift the endorsement. Of course,
there's no you can't come back to Earth after that, right, right,
So she deals with a lot of big name clients
like that. But I mean we'll talk to like, yeah,
Jewors Mutual's trends expert, we'll talk about someone from the
different jewelry riders from different magazines and they can also
(06:03):
we're gonna have a drawing where basically anybody in attendance
that night is automatically entered into this drawing and the
winner gets a retail value three thousand dollars fourteen carrot
white gold herd Bar diamond necklace. That's a fourteen carrot
white gold necklace worth twenty nine and ninety five dollars retail.
I bet Travis Kelsey can't afford that.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, I don't know about that, But any anybody who
gets a ticket to this event next week is entered automatically,
so you know, just think that's a nice little hitch.
That is a nice incentive there.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
And Davis Jewelers obviously I do commercials for them on
this station. Davis Jewelers, they are your title sponsors and
they're involved and it's actually going to be part of
this game.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
She's going to be on that panel there as well. Actually,
I saw her speak at the Derby Museum. She's really
she's good in front of crowd. She is she I mean,
I did TV with her about a year ago, and
she was so fascinating talking about I asked her about
lab grown diamonds and she said, this is an industry
disruptor in our industry.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
She talked about.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I mean, she's really educated on things like the whole
evolution of this style of engagement and wedding rings, and
we incorporated this into our exhibit. We have a whole
timeline of you know, it's the choices you make when
you walk into Davis Jeers and you make a decision
based on to get an engagement ring or a wedding ring.
It's affected by a lot of things. It's not just
you going in there in a vacuum and making a
choice as a consumer. It's the legalization of the manufacturing
(07:26):
of carrot gold in the eighteen fifties affected. You've got
economic restraints and the Great Depression and the Great Recession.
You've got celebrity weddings like Princess Diana's wedding, popularized sapphire rings.
You've got you know, Art Deco and modernism and big
esthetic trends that ebb and flow, and it affects the
way that the consumer thinks when they walk into the
shop to make their decision.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Fascinating. Did I see Heather French Henry connected somehow to
the wedding the marriage program that you have. That's great.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
The exhibition is on the second floor of the museum.
But if you walk into the Fraser Museum, flanking our
staircase right there, we've got this beautiful wedding dress on
the left and groom's tucks and tails on the right,
and those belonged to Heather French and Steve Henry who
were married October twenty seventh, two thousand, which yesterday was
their twenty fifth anniversary.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
That be doll.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
So this is why it showed up in your Facebook feed.
Probably we did a post about that, and that was
a big that was that wedding was a huge affair
that was held at the Cathedral of the Assumption in
Little one of the oldest churches in the state of Kentucky, right,
and it accommodated this huge crowd. And I mean she
had this beautiful long train as well, So that was
a historic event. She had just finished, I think a
few days prior, she'd finished her year as Miss America
(08:35):
two thousand and he was then lieutenant governor of the
state of Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, they were both here a month ago, and she
looks the same she does. Yeah, Steve is aged maybe
two three years. That's it. But I know he teases
me all the time too.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Love those kids, but yeah, they're sort of the folks
that greet you when you come into this exhibit. You
see this because that's a historic wedding right there in
Kentucky history. So you see these garments that were worn
at that particular event. So you get tickets to this event,
you can come tour that exhibit, you can stick around
for this game show, this panel discussion. Mary Dowling Whiskey
Company's going to have tastings. They're going to have a
(09:09):
welcome cocktail of past appetizers as well. It's all included
in admission. I think it's thirty five maybe thirty nine
dollars for a thing, okay, and where we go got
Fraser Museum dot org and tickets are limited, so i'd
encourage you to act fast.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
It's November sixth.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Thursday, November six. You can tour that in all the
other wonderful exhibitions we've got. We've got exhibits on Kentucky history,
Kentucky bourbon, Kentucky counties. As you know, I'm trying to
visit all the counties in Kentucky. We've got about we've
got one hundred and twenty. I've been to about sixty
or seventy. I mean, how many do you think you have?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Far fewer than that, really, yeah, yeah, I mean I
flew to a bunch of places for fun. Sure, I
used to just flying wherever there's an airport. I've been
to that county.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
But the beautiful thing in this wedding is exhibit. You
can look at the tombstone on each dress and it'll
say this bride was married at this Episcopal church in Lebanon,
Marion County Kentucky and blah blah blah. This woman is
from the tobacco fields and Katie's and she got married
in Hopkinsville in eighteen eighty nine. Look at her rust
colored dress.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I love the sound of this. It's very cool. Is
this love? Is this love? Simon Minors? I love you, son,
Love you too. Thanks for reporting to me on our
basketball cardinals the other night. You went the other night
and I at NOD.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
So yeah, that Peterson guy is definitely number one in
a lot of NBA mock drafts for a reason.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Good to know. And we enjoyed football together too, Simon Minors,
my son, and we're coming back in a few here
on news radio Waight forty whas
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