In addition to the candidate forums, the league's voter education efforts this fall will include a meeting with County Clerk Melinda Humphries and a meet and greet event for voters and candidates.
Guests will find activities and booths related to wildlife, the botanical garden, bees, the butterfly garden, birding, storytelling, rain gardening, a petting zoo, pumpkin painting, canoe rides, corn hole, disc golf, face painting and hayrides.
Falls led the Attucks High School basketball team to two state titles in the Kentucky High School Athletic League Championships and advanced four times to a national tournament for Black schools during segregation.
The Human Rights Commission of Hopkinsville-Christian County, the local museum, Pioneers Inc., Black-owned food vendors and Hopkinsville Brewing will be involved in the emancipation celebrations.
Paula Gieseke, an art teacher at Christian County High School, painted two large pieces on a downtown building that was originally part of the Ellis Ice and Coal Co. plant.
