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Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. Brown was a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era, where she worked for 30 years. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board past president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition. She serves on the Hopkinsville History Foundation’s board.
Pioneers Inc. is topic of Aug. 29 program for History on Tap
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Pioneers Inc., established in 1952, is a civic organization of African-American men. Their catering and barbecue business supports their charity work in the community.
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Ky.’s connection to Plessy v. Ferguson will be topic of author’s talk at state historical society
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Steve Luxenberg's talk will focus on Kentuckian John Marshall Harlan, the lone dissenter in the U.S. Supreme Court case that justified racial segregation.
John Marshall Harlan portrait
Ky. Basketball Hall of Fame inducts Attucks coach William Falls
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Falls coached at Attucks High School from 1935-1967. His teams won state titles and advanced four time to a national tournament.
coach falls feature
1928 pumper truck returns to the city’s old fire station
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The public can see the American LaFrance firetruck, along with other fire and transportation relics, at the Woody Winfree Fire and Transportation Museum in downtown Hopkinsville.
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Hopkinsville was almost named Elizabethtown
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Turner, county’s historian, hospitalized following stroke
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William T. Turner, the county's historian, was taken to Nashville in a medical helicopter Monday morning for treatment of a stroke.
William Turner at downtown Hopkinsville auction
Can Attucks school be saved?
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Despite a push starting in the early 1990s to renovate Attucks school, the building continues to decline. Can it be saved?
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