The Hopewell Museum

Exhibitions:

Waco and the Bybees: Central Kentucky Art Pottery, 1900 to 1935

Events

Friday, July 17 Art Walk 5-9
Mary Spears Van Meter Dinner.

Friday, August 14, 2009.
Annual Founder’s Day Dinner at the Museum. Social hour at 6:00 pm. Dinner at 7:00 pm. Speaker is James C. Klotter, Professor of History, Georgetown College and State Historian of Kentucky. “Henry Clay, Mary Todd, and Honest Abe.” Cost: Members $50/non-members $55

Picnic in the Park: . . .and all that Jazz!
September 20 (Sunday) 4:00-7:00 PM
Bring a full picnic basket and your lawn chair and join Historic Paris-Bourbon County/Hopewell Museum for a picnic in the park, featuring some easy listening jazz. The festivities with activities for all ages will be held at the renovated Hopewell Spring Park off Second Street, Paris KY. Cost free to members; $5 non- members.

A Surgeon’s Tale: Life and Death in the Orphan Brigade,
Sunday, October 25, 2009.
Presented by Hugh Ridenour.
As a surgeon for regiments of the famous Orphan Brigade and John Morgan’s partisans, Kentucky Native John Orlando Scott practiced his trade at numerous Civil War battles, including Shiloh. Ridenour will display Scott’s personal scrapbooks, from which this presentation is taken. 2:00 PM at Hopewell Museum,
800 Pleasant St. Light Refreshments.

Start your Crockpots for a Chili Cook-off! Friday, November 13, 2009 6:00 PM at the Hopewell Museum. Annual membership meeting with Chautauqua presenter Betsy B. Smith portraying Emilie Todd Helm; Rebel in the White House. As the sister of Mary Todd Lincoln and widow of Confederate Gen. Benjamin Helm, Emilie became the president’s rebel sister-in-law when she joined Mary Todd at the White House. Hailed as the Mother of the Orphan Brigade, she lived a long life as postmistress in Elizabethtown, KY.

Santa & Mrs. Claus: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 2:00 PM at Hopewell Museum.
Join Santa, Mrs. Claus and their museum helpers for present requests, photos, crafts and refreshments. For kids of all ages. Free

Here We Come A Wassailing. . . Walking tour to celebrate the season.
Saturday, December 12, 2009. 6:00 PM at Hopewell Museum Cost: Members
$50/non-members. $55.