The Great American Brass Band Festival

2007 Festival Articles

June 3, 2007

Looking Back: KHS HistoryMobile to be at band festival

FRANKFORT - It may look like an 18-wheel-tractor-trailer, but the Kentucky Historical Society's HistoryMobile contains a popular exhibition on Daniel Boone. Sporting a new "skin," this traveling museum will visit Danville's Great American Brass Band Festival Friday through June 10 as part of its 2007 tour across Kentucky.

"We are very excited to offer the HistoryMobile as an extension of the Kentucky Historical Society," says Kent Whitworth, executive director of KHS. "This mobile museum is a valuable tool that assists KHS in providing connections to the past, perspective on the present, and inspiration for the future to Kentuckians across the state."

The KHS HistoryMobile's current exhibition is "The Life and Legend of Daniel Boone." Daniel Boone may be Kentucky's most famous and celebrated historical figure.

His name is surrounded by legend. Boone was, in fact, an explorer and adventurer, surveyor, settler, merchant, hunter and trapper, soldier and proud family man.

This exhibition attempts to separate the real man from the legends.

Within the exhibition are images, text, and a specially produced 10-minute video narrated by Fess Parker, who starred in "Daniel Boone" on TV in the 1960s.

Visitors to the exhibition also will see models of a typical frontier fort and a pioneer homestead.

Other exhibit cases feature weapons of the period, items from the TV series, goods commonly found in frontier homes and commemorative medals and coins.

For more information on the HistoryMobile or to schedule the HistoryMobile for your community, contact David Whealdon at (502) 564-1792, ext. 4503, or david.whealdon@ky.gov.

Back to Articles home