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In order to expand the issues its drafted plan focuses on, Kentucky Heritage Council is asking for the public to give their own experiences and ideas that can contribute and help with preservation efforts across Kentucky.
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It’s been 50 years since the release of “Harlan County USA,” the Academy Award-winning film from director Barbara Kopple that shined a light on an eastern Kentucky coal mining community. Its echoes can still be heard in Appalachian music, documentaries and modern labor movements.
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Bath County, Kentucky, celebrated a historic occurrence, the meat shower of 1876.
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A new book from a Kentucky native details the last public hanging in the United States, which took place in Owensboro 1936, and examines it through the lens of lynch culture in America.
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Big Bone Lick State Historic Site is known as the "Birthplace of American Vertebrate Paleontology." On May 9th, a ceremony was held to celebrate the park's designation as a National Historic Landmark.
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The Paducah native, a newspaper editor by trade and later a state legislator, played a key role in bringing electricity to rural parts of the Commonwealth and pushing its state park and highway system forward.
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For decades, the Attucks Building was the only place where Black students could get an education in Christian County. Now, a local group is working to renovate the more-than-a-century-old school and turn it into a community center.
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Centuries-old Native American cave art may have been damaged by recent flooding at a state park in Clarksville, Tennessee.
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The death of Floyd Collins one century ago is being remembered as a catalyst for the formation of Mammoth Cave National Park, an area that's a cultural treasure and tourist attraction in southern Kentucky.
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Women chosen represent civil rights, art and writing communities
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With less than a week until a potentially historic U.S. presidential election that could see the first-ever woman elected to the post of commander in chief, a Kentucky-based historian says it’s important to look at the role women in the Bluegrass State have to play in the voting booth – and how they won the right to be there.
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Cannons boomed as soldiers in redcoats marched on Fort Massac.