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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.
Author who once featured local Jewish businesswoman Sarah Myers to lead virtual program
Jennifer P. Brown•
The book features a chapter on the late Sarah and Frances Myers, who ran Arnolds House of Fashion in Hopkinsville.
Sarah Myers on book cover
Edgar Cayce celebration planned downtown
Jennifer P. Brown•
Cayce Day — organized by the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County, Visit Hopkinsville and Milkweed Health & Harmony Emporium — will be Saturday, March 26.
edgar cayce on couch
Fannie Lander: A civil rights activist ahead of her time
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Lander and her husband, attorney Robert Lander, sued Ohio Valley Railroad for forcing her to give up a first-class ticketed seat because she was Black.
jim crow car
Library hosting Women’s History Month scavenger hunt
Jennifer P. Brown•
Participants earn points by taking selfies with community heroines and answering trivia questions.
Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library sign
Hopkinsville to celebrate bell hooks’ legacy during Women’s History Month
Jennifer P. Brown•
Several events will honor the Hopkinsville author and feminist scholar during Women's History Month, including a celebration at the library, a special exhibit at the museum, a history program at the Hopkinsville Brewing Co., screenings of interviews featuring hooks, and more.
bell hooks speaking
Modernettes offer virtual Black History Month program
Jennifer P. Brown•
Retired educator Bettie Esters Broady will lead the program.
Broady
Artifacts highlight our town’s Black history
Jennifer P. Brown•
The Pennyroyal Area Museum is home to several collections highlighting Hopkinsville's Black history.
brooks hospital exhibit
Hopkinsville desegregation is topic of next History on Tap
Jennifer P. Brown•
Museum director Alissa Keller will give the program at Hopkinsville Brewing.
museum logo feature
City and county contributions sought for Ned Breathitt statue
Jennifer P. Brown•
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.
ned breathitt
A local lawman’s place in Ky. history
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Bill Dillard was Kentucky's first Black sheriff, elected twice in Christian County before he became caught up in an FBI drug investigation.
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Hopkinsville native Ted Poston to be inducted into Ky. Writers Hall of Fame
Jennifer P. Brown•
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.
Poston-Office-of-War-Info-Feature
Museum director Keller to give program on Hopkinsville’s civil rights era
Jennifer P. Brown•
The virtual program at noon Wednesday, Jan. 19, will focus on the 1960s in Hopkinsville.
civil rights activists