Journey Stories
Touring Kentucky in 2011 and 2012
The Kentucky Humanities Council, Inc. will be sponsoring a tour of the Smithsonian traveling exhibition "Journey Stories" at the following six locations during 2011 and 2012.
05/28/11 - 07/09/11 Bluegrass Heritage Museum, Winchester (District 6)
07/16/11 - 08/27/11 Cynthiana-Harrison County Museum/Chamber of Commerce, Cynthiana (District 6)
09/03/11 - 10/15/11 Somerset Community College/Carnegie Community Arts Center, Somerset (District 5)
10/22/11 - 12/03/11 Kentucky Folk Art Center, Morehead (District 5)
12/10/11 - 01/21/12 Fort Thomas Military Museum, Fort Thomas (District 4)
01/28/12 - 03/10/12 Wrather West Kentucky Museum/Murray State University (District 1)
About the Exhibit: Journey Stories uses engaging images, audio, and artifacts to tell stories that illustrate the critical roles travel and movement have played in building our diverse American society. Journey Stories – including tales of how we and our ancestors came to America – are a central element of our personal heritage. From Native Americans to new American citizens and regardless of our ethnic or racial background, everyone has a story to tell. Our history is filled with stories of people leaving behind everything – families and possessions – to reach a new life in another state, across a continent, or even across an ocean. The reasons behind those decisions are plentiful. Many chose to move, searching for something better in a new land. Others had no choice, like enslaved Africans captured and relocated to a strange land and bravely asserting their own cultures, or like Native Americans, who were often pushed aside by newcomers.
Click here to go to the Smithsonian's Museum on Main Street Program web site.
For more information, please contact Kathleen Pool at 859/257-5932 or kathleen.pool@uky.edu
The Kentucky Humanities Council is also bringing another Museum on Main Street exhibit to Kentucky in 2012 called New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music. For information about this exhibit, click here.
Ken Wolf, KHC board member, helps install the mail
box for the Between Fences exhibit at the Wrather
West Kentucky Museum in Murray.
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