Arts & Culture

News from the arts scene in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Your imagination is a strange thing, especially if you are a child. In the first installment of our Christmas Quartet series, Brenda Hite Lile recalls a time her daughters' imaginations ran wild during a trip to cut down a Christmas tree.
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Magically, Santa was able to run simultaneously on three fire trucks at one time Sunday afternoon.
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Some restaurants have a deadline to order the weekend before Christmas, so don't wait too long to contact them.
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The tour will start at 1 p.m. Sunday, with three Hopkinsville fire trucks bringing Santa to several neighborhoods.
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The craft activity can be completed at the museum or taken home to be completed later.
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These suggestions just scratch the surface of a rich catalog of rural stories in popular entertainment.
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A $15,000 donation from Sisk Honda to the Pennyroyal Arts Council made the technological upgrade possible at the downtown theater.
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Despite the extra challenges of a pandemic year, the rumble of studded snow tires on the mail car remains one of the joyful sounds of the holiday season.
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Contributors will be asked to send videos showing them reading excerpts from their writing, and a compilation will be shared with the public later.
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Murray State's Theater Department performs the audio version of the classic Christmas film on Thursday. Several other holiday specials will follow throughout December.
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In light of an escalation in COVID-19 cases and state recommendations to avoid activities that could result in more infections, officials decided to put the celebration on hold for a year.
The classics include Charlie Brown, Rudolph, the Grinch and one Grandma struck by a reindeer.
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