New History App Offers Details About Kentucky's Past

WKMS | By Todd Hatton,

The Associated Press

Published August 15, 2012 at 9:00 AM CDT

The Kentucky Historical Society is releasing a smartphone app so users can find out more about the Commonwealth's historic sites. The Explore Kentucky History app connects historical markers, related items in the Historical Society's collections and user-submitted images and stories to points of interest on a map. The information is then grouped together into tours, with a Civil War-themed tour the first available. The KHS says it hopes Kentuckians and local history groups will participate, submitting images and stories. The app is available for free. The information is also accessible online at http://explorekyhistory.ky.gov.

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Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.

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