If there was something people could do without driving all the way to Louisville, something like a balloon race, Thunder Over Louisville and chow wagons, that would make everybody get into the spirit. Yet another factor that has altered the Derby scene is that the younger generation does not entertain in the grand style of its parents. They have neither the time nor the interest. But they just don't want to entertain, she said. They don't want to be bothered.
People are busy today going to school activities, working, chauffeuring kids here and there.
When she or friends entertain, it's usually an informal get-together with children included. Busy lifestyles also have led to party burnout. Linda and Curtis Green, owners of Green's Toyota dealership and Bel-Mar Farm, a thoroughbred farm on Old Richmond Road, used to rent a bus to take friends to the Kentucky Derby. She thinks other party-givers have opted to do the same. One of a kind Whether Madden will bring back her party next year is still up in the air.