The South Central Kentucky Cultural Center, in collaboration with Barren County Historical Society and Edmund Rogers Chapter, NSDAR, will be presenting a one-day conference to celebrate the upcoming 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding. Celebrate the Barrens Culture and History will be held at the cultural center, 200 W. Water Street, Glasgow on Saturday July 12, 2025. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear speakers on topics including early Kentucky trails, early women’s fashion, the Kentucky Rifle, music of the American Revolution, heirloom seeds, and 19th century photography. The keynote speaker will be Tommy Hines from South Union Shaker Village.
Registration will begin at 9am, then two one-hour sessions before lunch, a keynote speaker after lunch and ending with a third one-hour session and an optional walking tour of downtown Glasgow in the afternoon. The first session is a choice to hear J. Mark Lowe present a program about the earliest paths, traces and trails of early settlement or Susan Lyons Hughes present a program exploring the timeline of women’s fashions from 1776-1890. The second session is a choice of Mel Stuart Hankla’s talk on Kentucky Rifles and other antiquities from the Revolutionary War and the early Kentucky frontier or Nicky Hughes’ presentation on music of the American Revolution. The third session is a choice between Angela DeHart’s program on Kentucky’s heirloom seeds or Joseph Hays’ talk on 19th century images.
Admission to the event is $25, which includes lunch that will be served next door. Pre-registration is required. Tickets can be obtained through our webpage, www.sckcc.com, by clicking on the banner, or visiting the cultural center. For further information email or call the South Central Kentucky Cultural Center at director@sckcc.com or 270-651-9792. This event is supported with funding from the Kentucky Historical Society. For more information, see history.ky.gov.
-submitted by Debbie Pace
