Arts & Culture

News from the arts scene in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

The retelling of one of Edgar Allen Poe's most popular works is the perfect fall read to get you in the mood for the spooky season.
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The Pennyroyal Arts Council and several community partners are hosting events centering on the novel "There There."
The Kentucky native was a spokeswoman for working class women, especially those living in rural and suburban communities.
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Events with Bell Witch storytellers are planned at Jeffers Bend and St. Elmo.
Children are invited to collect treats between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 31.
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Prizes will be awarded at the library's fall festival on Oct. 28 for scariest, funniest, most creative and cutest pumpkins.
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An independent crew known as Climate Productions has been working on the documentary — called "165 Miles: Catastrophe in Kentucky" — since the day of the storm.
The country music icon, described as a "symbol of rural resilience," was 90 years old.
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County Judge-Executive Curtis McGehee announced at the dedication that every October will be celebrated as John Prine Month in Muhlenberg County.
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Robert Penn Warren, a Kentucky native from Guthrie, became America’s first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry in 1986.
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The dedication ceremony is Saturday at the Rochester Dam on the Green River.
The unveiling occurred on the 70th anniversary of her birth in Hopkinsville as Gloria Jean Watkins.