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The Barbourville Redbud Festival
and Quilting Workshop visitors will have an
opportunity to explore “Kentucky’s Abraham Lincoln” when
they visit the HistoryMobile on Friday from 9:30 a.m. to
7:30 p.m. on April 9th and on Saturday from
9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on April 10th on the
campus of Union College. This experience, provided by
the Kentucky Historical Society (KHS), is open free of
charge and is available to everyone especially school
children.
The KHS HistoryMobile is a mobile
museum featuring exhibits on Kentucky history. Housed
in a 45-foot tractor-trailer, the 300 square –foot
exhibit explores Lincoln’s frontier childhood, his
career from log house to the White House and his
struggles to end slavery and lead the nation through the
Civil War. The HistoryMobile will visit communities and
school campuses throughout the state during the year.
The KHS HistoryMobile program is
made possible by the generosity of the Honorable Order
of Kentucky Colonels, the Pilot Corporation and the
Kentucky Historical Society Foundation. Since 1973,
this program has presented a wide variety of exhibits on
Kentucky history to at least one million Kentuckians,
half of which has been students. |
