Community Calendar

Mark your calendars for the reception of this show on September 2nd at 4-6pm at the Mary Ed Mecoy Hall Gallery, on the 6th floor, Price Doyle Fine Arts Building at MSU.

"Shifting Landscapes: A Photographic Chronicle of Humanity and Nature in Western Kentucky," by Dr. Kate S. He, Professor of Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, and Cintia Segovia Figueroa, Assistant Professor, Photography and New Media, Art And Design, focuses on the historical and environmental changes in the landscape and society in parts of western Kentucky through photographs and archival images.

Exhibition dates: August 19 - September 17, 2025
CHFA Humanities Lecture Series March 5, 2026 at 3:30 pm at Waterfield Library

The Kentucky Historical Society and the Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, support “Shifting Landscapes: A Photographic Chronicle of Humanity and Nature in Western Kentucky” with state tax dollars from the Kentucky General Assembly and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information, visit history.ky.gov.

Prime Time Family Reading is a six-week reading, discussion, and storytelling program held at public libraries, schools, or community centers across Kentucky. A humanities scholar and a storyteller act as session leaders to conduct weekly storytelling and discussion sessions based on award-winning children's picture books. Participants are elementary age children and the significant adults in their lives. Prime Time is a powerful tool to stimulate communication between children and parents, teaching them how to model storytelling and discussion in the home. Book and dinner are provided, registration is required for this SIX week program. For more information please email contactccpl@callowaycountylibrary.org.

The Calloway County Public Library is pleased to partner with with Calloway County School District Family Resource and Youth Centers to provide this literacy program. The program ismade possible through Grant Funds provided by the Kentucky Humanities Council and the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives.

You can get a one time partial credit on your electric bill. You must live in the purchase area. You can contact the Mayfield office for more information.

The Revolutionary Threads Exhibit highlights an important aspect of the Revolutionary War soldiers’ wartime experience —what they wore to war. The exhibit illustrates and explains the designs, development, and diversity of the many uniforms worn by the soldiers during the War for Independence. Women patriots are represented as well-- from the women who fought on the battlefield to those who served as nurses, spies, and in domestic capacities. The experiences, ordeals, and service of members of Kentucky’s Gatliff Family demonstrate the difficulties of fighting the war on its western front on the Kentucky frontier and the personal impact on the soldiers and their families. In addition, a display of 20 battle flags represents some of the numerous regiments, militias, and other military units of the 13 colonies. Included are seven life-size mannequins dressed in period attire. Celebrate America's upcoming 250th Anniversary of Independence!

the Clinton and Mary Opal Moore Appalachian Writer’s Residency, established with gifts from Shirley Moore Menendez, the late John C. Moore, Tom Moore, Nancy Moore Waldrop and Jayne Moore Waldrop in honor of their late parents and their family’s eastern Kentucky roots. Clinton Elster Moore (1916-2008) and Mary Opal Moore (1922-2015) were born in eastern Kentucky – Pike and Letcher counties, respectively – but left the mountains in the early 1950s when they moved to far western Kentucky. They settled in Paducah where they remained for the rest of their lives, but they always considered Appalachia their home.

The Moore Residency was created to strengthen literary connections between Appalachia and western Kentucky while enhancing the creative and professional growth of students in the creative writing program at Murray State. It commemorates the Moores’ east-to-west journey in hopes of fostering creativity and understanding between two distinct regions in Kentucky connected by the Cumberland River.

For more information about the event, contact Dr. Carrie Jerrell at cjerrell1@murraystate.edu.

You can get a one time partial credit on your electric bill. You must live in the purchase area. You can contact the Mayfield office for more information.

The Revolutionary Threads Exhibit highlights an important aspect of the Revolutionary War soldiers’ wartime experience —what they wore to war. The exhibit illustrates and explains the designs, development, and diversity of the many uniforms worn by the soldiers during the War for Independence. Women patriots are represented as well-- from the women who fought on the battlefield to those who served as nurses, spies, and in domestic capacities. The experiences, ordeals, and service of members of Kentucky’s Gatliff Family demonstrate the difficulties of fighting the war on its western front on the Kentucky frontier and the personal impact on the soldiers and their families. In addition, a display of 20 battle flags represents some of the numerous regiments, militias, and other military units of the 13 colonies. Included are seven life-size mannequins dressed in period attire. Celebrate America's upcoming 250th Anniversary of Independence!

Find locally grown healthy produce, fresh-cut flowers, proteins, baked goods, bourbon & spirits, handcrafted items & more! Every Thursday from 4pm-7pm and now every 2nd Saturday from 9am-12pm starting in May!

Each Thursday evening, from 4:30 P.M. to 5:30 P.M., Breaking Bread Dinner Church will provide hot meals to go at the Aaron McNeil House in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Support for the program can be made through St. John's Methodist Church in Hopkinsville.

Food pantry hours aside from free weekly meals:

Monday and Tuesday: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Wednesday: 9:00 am -12:00 pm and 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Thursday 9:00 am - 12:00 pm and 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 pm
Friday 9:00 am - 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

If it is your first time visiting our Food Pantry, please bring Photo ID for all adults in the home and Social Security cards for all household members.

Board chair Darlene Mazzone and board member Chris Hutson will provide a profile of the Columbia since its beginnings in 1927 along with an update on the current state of the restoration process.

Mazzone is president of Mazzone Communications and Hutson is a managing partner at the Paducah firm of Whitlow, Roberts, Houston, and Straub. Mazzone organized the first task force in 2015 to undertake the daunting task of restoring the historic theater. Hutson has been a long-standing member of the board and is also co-owner of Frenchtown Station and Slim’s Frenchtown Mercantile, both of which are restored historic structures.

Learn about the early days of one of Paducah’s most iconic architectural gems and the plans for its renaissance.