Well, the Kentucky Historical Society
in Frankfurt is not only just an
amazing place to visit and to learn a
little bit more about Kentucky history,
but it's also a tremendous resource.
That's right here in our state.
Well this weekend they are rolling out the
red carpet to celebrate all things Kentucky.
Joining us here on great day live this
morning is executive director Scott Alvey
and Director of Education Jody Lewis.
Thanks so much for joining us.
Thanks for having
us. Yeah, thanks for having us.
We never missed a chance
to talk to Chucky history.
We love we love catching up with you all.
We love that you're a part.
Of so much of our programming here,
you know, just transparency here.
My first visit to the Kentucky
Historical Society was in March
for one of our takeover shows.
I was blown away guys walking in there.
Whoa, like what?
It's right in our backyard here in Louisville
and a lot of folks don't understand.
We're actually located over in
Frankfurt and so we have some of the
greatest research elements in in the
in the country for Kentucky history.
We also collect and preserve.
Some of Kentucky's greatest treasures.
In fact, we run some TV television
shows on Kentucky history
treasures right here on WHS.
Yeah, we love partnering with
you all on this, and I understand
you have kind of this historical.
What a great day to kind
of roll out the red carpet,
so to speak and talk a little bit
more about what you all do, Jody.
If you want to take that,
tell a little bit about what you can
expect to find out this weekend.
Sure, well, they're going to
start off celebrating others.
We have the Kentucky history awards.
It's an annual award ceremony. Where we?
Honor folks who are have proven excellence
in everything from publications to
programming to interns volunteers,
so it's a really neat way to do
that that starts at 9:30 and goes
through 11 and then starting at 11.
We kind of start our own stuff a little
bit and we will be showing off the
kinds of things that our staff does,
so we'll have tours.
We'll have workshops we will have
in gallery talks we will have.
Just fun hands on activity,
so they'll be something for
every age and again,
just showing off what we do.
A couple of the workshops.
I'm really excited about that.
I think maybe some of your viewers
might be interested in would be
things like family genealogy,
you know KS we have this incredibly
robust genealogy program that you
all know about because you do.
We love having Heather French
Henry here to talk about it too.
We love that feel like in recent
years there's just so much.
I don't know if it's just everybody
wanting to know what's my story.
Where did I come from that what you
all do dovetails so well inside feel
like our natural curiosity of who am I?
There's there's a lot
about during the pandemic,
a lot of people had some time
to really dig in and spend some
time while they were at home
studying their family history.
So we see we've seen a nice uptick
in people who are coming into
to use the research facilities,
or even using the online resources
to to better understand themselves.
That in the family and and the past that
that helps make them who they are today,
and I feel like if people
haven't been to the museum,
gotta go by the way, because it is.
It's a massive area.
It's on a couple blocks for people
that may not have ever been there
and look at this video here.
It's a museum, a research facility
you walk in and it's just it.
There's a lot,
there's there's.
There's the the on campus experience,
but one of the things that we're really
proud of is you can fund Kentucky
history all around the Commonwealth.
If you're familiar with our markers.
Program any of the 2400 markers
that that go across the state
also originate here from the
Kentucky Historical Society,
and if you're not planning
for the event this weekend,
or the ancestors or that we
put a lot of the mystery shows
together and stuff like that too,
what else do you all do?
Because I know there's a lot
year round you're developing
even more programming and in
in more research, right? Never
stops. Never. It's Christmas everyday
in Kentucky, exactly, you know,
we do the same kinds of things.
Any kind of museum would do so.
In fact, my team, like Scott mentioned,
the marker program that's on our team all
of the summer camps and the school programs.
Because we have such a unique facility
right there in the middle of the state.
So school groups come down and they
can go to the old state capitol.
They can go up to the military History Museum
because we have those three buildings,
so it's a really rich field trip and
we have a scholarly publication.
That comes out.
We have visiting fellows,
so people coming from literally all over the
world to study Kentucky history at our site.
So it's just you're right.
It's just something.
Always
new exhibit to opening at the
museum this later this summer.
There will be this fall, yeah,
and this this fall will be
opening our stories up. Yes
something I don't know if that supposed
to be in the bag. Our stories, our
service, Kentucky's women
veterans and so will be actually.
We were hoping to have it closer
to the Honor Flight Kentucky
that's going not this weekend,
but the following weekend to DC on
all female flight to Washington DC.
Details Oh my goodness.
Thank you so much for all
that you're doing there.
It's just nice to hear.
I feel like we're taking charge of our
of telling our own story and Kentucky.
Yeah, you know and it just I think it
makes us all so proud as we're kind
of kind of marking a new way together.
Well, it's it's always a lot of fun
to sit there and talk about Kentucky
history is. Thank you all so much.
So we're gonna remind everybody
that once again Kentucky history
History Day is this Saturday at
the Kentucky Historical Society in
Frankfurt for a full schedule of
the day's events, head on over to
history.ky.gov.