Holidays

Holiday stories for Hoptown Chronicle readers.

This annual program uses evergreens donated after the holiday season to create underwater habitats that help fish thrive.
cedar tree limb
Hoptown Chronicle's annual holiday quiz comes from editor Jennifer P. Brown, who has been writing a Christmas quiz for friends every year since 1995.
santa leaving
In a new Snapshots in Time column, Alissa Keller features a Nativity donation from Pennyrile Doll Club to the museum.
nativity feature
Margaret Prim and her siblings continue to make Christmas sweets like Butterscotch Pies from recipes handed down from their mom Sally Hail's family.
prim family feature
Brick & Mortar Monthly columnist Grace Abernethy mines childhood memories from a diary and clues found in old newspapers to shed light on Christmases in Hopkinsville during the early 20th century.
hotel latham christmas
It was a big night all around for the city water utility and its employees. HWEA’s float received the grand champion award for a parade float. And retiring general manager Derrick Watson was the parade grand marshal. 
2025 christmas parade house
Community members are invited to join the tour at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, at Freeman Chapel CME Church.
first presbyterian
Children will be able to wave to Santa Claus as he moves throughout the city on three routes beginning at 1 p.m.
In December 1983, the manager of a Hopkinsville toy store saw first-hand the national craze over that year’s most popular Christmas gift for children.
Cabbage Patch Kids dolls in crib