• Annual Membership Meeting and Soup Supper

    Hopewell Museum

    6:00 PM — Supper & Member Meeting 7:00 PM — Public Invited to hear KHC Chautauqua Speaker David Hurt presenting Grandpa Jones: Country Musician & Comic—a Henderson Countian who was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1978. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Kentucky Humanities Council and the National […]

  • Santa & Mrs. Claus

    Hopewell Museum

    Meet Santa, Mrs. Claus and their museum helpers for photos, crafts, and cookies. For kids of all ages. Free.

  • Christmas Cocktail Party

    Hopewell Museum

    An evening with friends, heavy hors d’oeuvres, and cocktails! Members - $20/non-members - $25/U40 - $15. Proceeds benefit education programs at HPBC/HM.

  • Exhibit Opening – The Great War: Kentucky & Beyond

    Hopewell Museum

    Light refreshments. Free & open to the public. This exhibit commemorates the Centennial of WWI & explores Kentuckians’ role from local to international perspectives. Curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. Sponsored by Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, American Legion Post 30, Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund, Bourbon Community Hospital, Making History Matter, & Holly McMillin Insurance Group […]

  • Monthly Teen Art Studio

    Hopewell Museum

    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.

  • The Great War Lecture Series: Scott Ellsworth, Ph.D.

    Hopewell Museum

    Scott Ellsworth, Ph.D. “The Long Shadow: World War I, Race, and the Making of America.” Free & open to the public. Formerly a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, Scott Ellsworth has written about American history and culture for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.  The author of Death In a […]

  • Mardi Gras, 1934

    Prichard & Bail Cocktail Bar 108 East 4th Street, Paris, KY, United States

    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 […]