History

Diane Croney Turner recently stepped down after serving approximately 30 years on the museum board.

The Croney family was represented by four generations, including matriarch Nannie Croney whose oral history includes a story of resistance on behalf of her children.

A closer look at a historic trunk housed by the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville & Christian County reveals more stories than one might expect.

Recently, Hoptown Chronicle editor Jennifer P. Brown has adopted a new identify of sorts. It all began as an act of remembrance.

It wasn’t the “big leagues,” but for a brief moment our small towns, open pastures, and back roads hosted baseball in its purest, most joyful form.

Tombstone Tuesday — a local effort to clean headstones at Hopkinsville's UBS Cemetery — is happening on June 20.

The Torah survives today because it was loaned to the local museum two years before the Jewish synagogue building collapsed in 1977.

The keynote speaker will be author and civil rights historian Quraysh Ali Lansana. 

Former Hopkinsville resident Joe Craver was 10 years old the first time he walked a cemetery to place American flags at veterans' graves.

A dozen people came out Tuesday to help clean monuments in the Union Benevolent Society Cemetery on Vine Street.

The silks were donated by the family of the late Henry G. Adcock, the Christian County man largely responsible for developing harness racing at the local fair.

The May 25 program will feature conservationist Grace Abernethy, Downtown Renaissance Director Holly Boggess and South Main Street homeowner Jeri Richardson.