History

“White supremacy is a poison,” President Joe Biden told civil rights leaders on Monday. “It’s a poison that’s been allowed to grow faster and faster in our communities.”

The artifact – housed at the Pennyroyal Area Museum – was once housed outside of the historic Phoenix Building, which is slated for demolition.

The free program is slated Sept. 1 at Hopkinsville Brewing Co.

The special event is a nod to the story of a Kelly farm family who claimed that aliens invaded their homeplace on Aug. 21, 1955.

Research suggests that Black voters were more responsive to Confederate monuments, which suppressed their political activity by signaling they were not accepted by the local community.

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.