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Recent Front Page Stories
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Kentucky’s First Governor Isaac Shelby speaks at the last of the 2010 Fireside Chats at Fort Boonesborough
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Mel Hankla took center stage as Kentuckian Isaac Shelby. Shelby was both Kentucky’s first and 5th governor and led the state during the War of 1812.
The Fireside Chats are presented by the Fort Boonesborough Foundation and also include “A Taste of Frontier Fare” dinner.
Click here for more!
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William Whitley Visits Boonesborough
for the Fireside Chats
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As part of her website www.mandythestoryteller.com, Mandy Dick has added a section entitled “On this day”. Divided into sections the calendars cover Kentucky history, Indiana history and a special section on the Clark/Croghan families of Historic Locust Grove.
Dick, in addition to her storytelling portrays several historic characters including Lucy Clark Croghan. Lucy was sister to both George Rogers Clark and William Clark of Lewis and Clark fame. She and her husband William Croghan often hosted prominent Kentuckians of the time including all of her siblings and nieces and nephews.
Says Dick, “when I am preparing for a first person event - it helps to look at the calendars. I think it adds so much when interacting with the public to be able to know relative facts to the year and time you are portraying. Everything from births and deaths to what might have been happening in ‘Washington City’ are included.” Click on the link above to see what was happening on this day in Kentucky and Indiana history.
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Fair at New Boston Draws Record Crowd
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Ladies and gentleman, Indians, children, cannoneers, soldiers, wagoneers, food vendors, famous statesmen and a large crowd of everyday folk filled the grounds at the George Rogers Clark Park in Springfield, Ohio for the 27th Annual Fair at New Boston. Three sections of Photos now loaded! More to come
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Craftsmen, campers and Natives abound at the Annual Grassy Run Rendezvous in Williamsburg, Ohio
Click here for Photos
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Season Starts with a Cold Weekend for the Illinois Regiment at Locust Grove
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A cold and wet weekend in Louisville, Kentucky is not usually on the agenda for the middle of April.
On the river front Louisville hosts the largest fireworks in the country - known as Thunder Over Louisville - the kickoff to three weeks of Kentucky Derby Festival Events.
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While up on a hillside not too far from downtown there is another event - known as 18th Century Thunder. Re-Enactors add to the thunder noise with a bit of 18th century black powder. The photo above was taken near the Croghan family cemetery as the assembled troops gave a salute to George Rogers Clark who spent his final days at Locust Grove, the home of his sister and brother in law William and Lucy Clark Croghan. Click Here for more photos.
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Managers Conference Held
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The 2nd Annual Event Planners & Historic Site Managers Conference was held at Blue Licks Battlefield State Park on March 5-7. The Conference was hosted by The Fort Boonesborough Foundation. Read the Story.
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Scott New Returns to
Kentucky Humanities Council Chautauqua
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By Kathy Cummings
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After three years working as character interpreters for Colonial Williamsburg, Scott and Berni New have come home. According to New, “ We are delighted to be back on home ground again amidst friends and family. We felt we had made our mark at Colonial Williamsburg and were becoming awfully homesick. You are never too old, or busy, to learn the old lesson all over again that there is ‘no place like home’. By the grace of Providence, we were able to return.”
“I will once again be taking up the mantle, or should I say, hunting shirt of Daniel Boone. I am delighted to be back with the Kentucky Humanities Council as before. We plan on offering the Boone programs right where we left off.”
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Visitors to last weekend’s Martin Station event may have also noticed that New is back with Wilderness Road State Park. Continued New,” I hope to see a number of familiar faces at our various events. We have hopes of really making progress with our living history programming, and are very exited about the potential. We hope to be establishing a good partnership not only with the Cumberland Gap National Park, but with historic sites in Kentucky, southwest Virginia and perhaps east Tennessee as well. After all, we are all telling the same story, just different chapters. God willing there are good days ahead all way around!”
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