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The Road to Paradise: Photographs by Linda Bruckheimer
August 12 to December 2, 2026
There’s a term for the small, forgotten, out-of-the way roads that connect towns across rural America: “Blue Highways.” Author William Least Heat-Moon coined the phrase as a nod to old roadmaps that color-code highways red and backroads blue.
Acclaimed photographer and Kentuckian Linda Bruckheimer pays homage to America’s Blue Highways — and the destinations to which they lead in a new exhibition in the Stewart Gallery. Featuring photographs of locales from Route 66—”The Mother Road” —The Road to Paradise draws inspiration from the journey Linda’s family took in 1959 when they packed up their ’53 Packard and relocated from the Bluegrass to the Golden State — an experience that fueled Linda’s lifelong passion for road trips. The exhibit is open at the Grand Theatre from August 12 until December 2, 2026.
On display are photographs Bruckheimer took on various road trips over the past 20 years, cataloguing the people, places, and landscapes of America in destinations spanning multiple states Oklahoma to California. The exhibit documents local residents, adobe houses, diners, motels, billboards, rest stops, and tourist traps along the way.
Bruckheimer is a best-selling author, magazine editor, photographer, filmmaker, and preservationist. Born Linda Cobb, she was raised in Louisville and later Los Angeles. From 1989 to 1995, she was the West Coast editor of the women’s magazine Mirabella. She has written and produced two animated specials for PBS and authored two-bestselling novels: Dream Southern (1999) and The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way (2005), and the 2019 film, Above Suspicion. Bruckheimer published her first photography book, “Road Map to Heaven” in 2019. Her photographs have been exhibited at the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., the Frazier History Museum, the Field Museum in Chicago, the John James Audubon Museum, the Kentucky Governor’s Mansion, the Headley-Whitney Museum, Josephine Sculpture Park, Carnegie Center for Literacy in Lexington and My Old Kentucky Home State Park. Linda is married to film and television producer Jerry Bruckheimer. The couple splits their time between Los Angeles and Bloomfield, KY, where they own a 1,600-acre property, Walnut Groves Farm. An avid preservationist, Linda has since restored many historic buildings in Bloomfield.
Linda Bruckheimer
Linda Bruckheimer is an American novelist, photographer and preservationist. Raised in Kentucky, she moved to California with her family when she was a teenager, a trip that inspired her novels, Dreaming Southern and The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way, as well as her passion for photography. This led to the publishing of Road Map to Heaven: A Photographic Journey Through Unseen Kentucky – a collection of her work that captures its heart and soul.
Her love of history and architecture fostered her dedication to preservation, and in 2017 she was the recipient of the Ida Lee Willis Memorial Award. In 2012, Preservation Kentucky established The Linda Bruckheimer Excellence in Rural Preservation Award. In addition, she serves on the board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
As an accomplished photographer, her previous photography exhibitions include The Governor’s Mansion, Frankfort, Kentucky, 2015; Revelry Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky, 2015; My Old Kentucky Home State Park, Bardstown, Kentucky, 2016; Revelry Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky, 2016; John James Audubon State Park Museum, Henderson, Kentucky, 2016; Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C., 2016; Bluegrass Ball – Kentucky Society of Washington, Washington, D.C., 2017; My Old Kentucky Home State Park, Bardstown, Kentucky, 2017; Frazier History Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, 2017; Field Museum – National Trust for Historic Preservation, Chicago, Illinois, 2017; Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning, Lexington, Kentucky, 2018; My Old Kentucky Home State Park, Bardstown, Kentucky, 2018; Frazier History Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, 2019, and Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, Kentucky, 2020.
Currently, Bruckheimer divides her time between her historic farm in Nelson County, Kentucky, and Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband, film and television producer Jerry Bruckheimer.