Join us for our first annual HPBC Hopewell Museum Mardi Gras Party: Mardi Gras, 1934! With prohibition ending in December of 1933, this post-prohibition party is a celebration of the first Mardi Gras where Bourbon was allowed to flow freely. Come and explore Hartfield & Co. Distillery-- Bourbon County’s first distillery since before Prohibition-- and […]
Teens in middle & high school, come to the Museum to create your own artwork! Free, with snacks & supplies included. This event is in partnership with Paris-Bourbon County Public Library.
Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. “Behind the Lines: American Women in France during The Great War." Free & open to the public. After receiving a Ph.D. in history at the University of Kentucky, Margaret Spratt was on the faculty at California University of Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, where she received the university's research award for her co-edited book, […]
Commemorate 100 years of America’s entry in The Great War on April 6, 1917 with a movie & discussion to follow. Free. We'll be showing "All Quiet on the Western Front." The first screening will be at 10 a.m., and the second screening will be at 6 p.m. Both showings will be in the Paris […]
Commemorate 100 years of America’s entry in The Great War on April 6, 1917 with a movie & discussion to follow. Free.
David Bettez, Ph.D. “Kentucky and The Great War: World War One on the Homefront." Free & open to the public. David J. Bettez, Ph.D., is the author of Kentucky and the Great War: World War I on the Home Front (UPress of KY, 2016), and Kentucky Marine: Major General Logan Feland and the Making of […]
Teens in middle & high school, come to the Museum to create your own artwork! Free, with snacks & supplies included. This event is in partnership with Paris-Bourbon County Public Library.
A look at regional artists’ works throughout downtown Paris & at the Hopewell Museum. Artist is Jerry Freeman, photographer from Lexington. Free with light refreshments.