History

The Pennyroyal Area Museum is home to several collections highlighting Hopkinsville's Black history.

Museum director Alissa Keller will give the program at Hopkinsville Brewing.

Programs range from musical to educational and are available in partnership with multiple media outlets worldwide.

Edward T. "Ned" Breathitt Jr., a Hopkinsville native and Kentucky's 51st governor, is remembered for helping win passage of the first civil rights bill in a Southern state.

In the middle of an 1886 blizzard that blanketed Hopkinsville and Christian County in snow, a photographer set up his camera to capture the moment — and provide us a peek into Hopkinsville' history. In the second installment of Hoptown Chronicle's new "Snapshots in Time" column, Alissa Keller brings the moment to life.

Bill Dillard was Kentucky's first Black sheriff, elected twice in Christian County before he became caught up in an FBI drug investigation.

Vicki Crawford, director of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection, shares five details of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life that stand out.

Recognized as the dean of Black journalists in America, Ted Poston covered major stories on civil rights, politics and Black culture as a staff writer at the New York Post from the mid-1930s until his retirement in 1972.

The virtual program at noon Wednesday, Jan. 19, will focus on the 1960s in Hopkinsville.

The origins of Christmas as a holiday date back to the 1790s and evolved throughout the decades that followed.

In 1932, Hopkinsville photographer L.D. Martin captured a night scene when local merchants first decorated downtown with Christmas lights.

In attempting to capture a new spirit of Christmas, Dickens reminds us of the power of the past and the future to change the way we see the present.