Many thanks to all of the families and homeschool groups who participated in our Homeschool History Day: Building the Bluegrass.
Consider becoming a member of KHS to get updates on future programming:
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Homeschool families, ready to BUILD some history? 🔨🎨
This Friday, October 23, bring your young inventors, artists, and explorers to Homeschool History Day: Building the Bluegrass!
Less sitting. More doing. A whole lot of history!
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Many thanks to the @KACo for featuring KHS museums and America 250KY in this month's publication of their magazine, County Line! Read the article (pgs. 28-31) here!
246 years ago today, Major Patrick Ferguson killed at Battle of Kings Mountain.
A pair of pistols he may have carried that day survives.
See Ferguson’s 1778 pistols and holsters in Courage of the Commonwealth, on view at KHS through Nov. 28.
⚔️ Learn more:
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What stories can one dress hold? 👗
Senior Curator Jennifer Downs traces a silk dress through two generations, from a family wedding to Lafayette’s 1825 visit to Kentucky, in a new Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts article.
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📸Howard Sutcliffe