Hopewell Museum

Monthly Teen Art Studio
2017-05-18 16:00 - 17:00, 2017-04-20 16:00 - 17:00, 2017-03-16 16:00 - 17:00, 2017-02-16 16:00 - 17:00 UTC | Hopewell Museum, 800 Pleasant St, Paris, KY, 40361, United States
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.

Paris Storytelling Festival
2017-05-13 09:00 - 11:00 | Hopewell Museum, 800 Pleasant St, Paris, KY, 40361, United States
A new community event! A workshop will be held at the Museum for teachers on May 13th. Sheila Arnold will lead the workshop entitled “Storytelling in the Classroom and at Home.” Visit the Paris Storytelling Festival website for more details.

Free Family Fun Hour - Spinning Yarn
2017-05-06 14:00 - 15:00 | Hopewell Museum, 800 Pleasant St, Paris, KY, 40361, United States

Win, Place, & Show Derby Party
2017-04-29 19:00 - 23:00 | McConnell’s Auction House, 1833 S. Main Street, Paris, KY, 40361, United States
Enjoy a fun pre-Derby celebration at McConnell’s Auction House, 1833 S. Main Street in Paris. Music by Mercy Men! Food, Live & Silent Auction, & Hat Contest! RSVP Required. Members $50/non-members $55/U40 $35. You may reserve a table for 6 for $350. Proceeds benefit education programs at HPBC/HM.
VIEW AND BID ON LIVE & SILENT AUCTION ITEMS! Even if you cannot attend the party, you may send email bids for items. Click below for instructions and item list:
2017 Derby Party Live and Silent Auction Items

Paris ARTWALK
2017-04-21 17:00 - 20:00 | Hopewell Museum, 800 Pleasant St, Paris, KY, 40361, United States
A look at regional artists’ works throughout downtown Paris & at the Hopewell Museum. Artist is Jerry Freeman, photographer from Lexington. Free with light refreshments.

The Great War Lecture Series: David Bettez, Ph.D.
2017-04-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Hopewell Museum, 800 Pleasant St, Paris, KY, 40361, United States
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 the Modern USMC (UPress of KY, 2014), which received the 2015 Col Joseph Alexander Award for Biography from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation. Currently he is working on a monograph for the Marine Corps History Division regarding the Marine Corps in the final stages of the World War I Meuse-Argonne campaign, November 1 – 11, 1918. He and his wife live in Scott County, Kentucky. Dr. Bettez will be available to sign his book, Kentucky & the Great War, following the lecture.

WWI Film Screening
2017-04-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Paris-Bourbon County Public Library, 701 High St, Paris, KY, 40361, United States
Commemorate 100 years of America’s entry in The Great War on April 6, 1917 with a movie & discussion to follow. Free.

WWI Film Screening
2017-04-06 | Paris-Bourbon County Public Library, 701 High St, Paris, KY, 40361, United States
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 Bourbon County Library Community Room.

Free Family Fun Hour - Ukrainian Easter Eggs
2017-04-01 14:00 - 15:00 | Hopewell Museum, 800 Pleasant St, Paris, KY, 40361, United States

The Great War Lecture Series: Margaret Spratt, Ph.D.
2017-03-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Hopewell Museum, 800 Pleasant St, Paris, KY, 40361, United States
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, Men and Women Adrift: The YMCA and the YWCA in the City. She has also taught and researched at the University of New England, the University of Southern Maine, Oberlin College in Ohio, and Smith College in Massachusetts. Margaret lives in Paris with her husband, Henry Wyatt, and Golden Retriever, Pete. She is a consultant for Making History Matter.

Free Family Fun Hour - Pottery
2017-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 | Hopewell Museum, 800 Pleasant St, Paris, KY, 40361, United States

Mardi Gras, 1934
2017-02-28 18:00 - 22:00 | Prichard & Bail Cocktail Bar, 108 East 4th Street, Paris, KY, 40361, 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 celebrate the Bourbon connection with New Orleans, Louisiana. The Baja Yetis, a nine-piece brass band, will set the tone for the Jazzy celebration, while Epic Cure Food truck will delight your taste buds with a New Orleans style menu. Slip on your best 1930’s attire, head piece and Mardi Gras mask (you might just take home a prize) and stylishly sip marvelous cocktails crafted by the Prichard & Bail Cocktail bar (located within the Distillery building).
Tickets are limited. Buy online through February 20 for $15 (www.hartfieldandcompany.com/mardi-gras-1934). Or, purchase at the door for $20. This is sure to be an extraordinary night that you don’t want to miss! Proceeds benefit HPBC/Hopewell Museum.

The Great War Lecture Series: Scott Ellsworth, Ph.D.
2017-02-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Hopewell Museum, 800 Pleasant St, Paris, KY, 40361, United States
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 Promised Land, a groundbreaking history of the Tulsa race riot of 1921, Scott’s newest book, The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball’s Lost Triumph was awarded a PEN Book Award in 2016. He lives with his wife and their fourteen year old twin sons in Ann Arbor, where he also teaches at the University of Michigan. Dr. Ellsworth will be available after the lecture to sign his book, The Secret Game.

Family Exhibit Opening - The Great War
2017-02-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Hopewell Museum, 800 Pleasant St, Paris, KY, 40361, United States
Includes child-friendly crafts, activities, & refreshments. Free & open to the public.

Exhibit Opening - The Great War: Kentucky & Beyond
2017-02-12 14:00 - 16:00 | Hopewell Museum, 800 Pleasant St, Paris, KY, 40361, United States
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 and Nationwide. On display through Oct. 1. Veterans receive free admission during the duration of this exhibit thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.

Free Family Fun Hour - WWI Poppy Craft
2017-02-04 14:00 - 15:00 | Hopewell Museum, 800 Pleasant St, Paris, KY, 40361, United States
Free for children and families.

Christmas Cocktail Party
2016-12-10 17:00 - 19:00 | Hopewell Museum, 800 Pleasant St, Paris, KY, 40361, United States
An evening with friends, heavy hors d’oeuvres, and cocktails! Members – $20/non-members – $25/U40 – $15. Proceeds benefit education programs at HPBC/HM.

Santa & Mrs. Claus
2016-12-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Hopewell Museum, 800 Pleasant St, Paris, KY, 40361, United States
Meet Santa, Mrs. Claus and their museum helpers for photos, crafts, and cookies. For kids of all ages. Free.

Annual Membership Meeting and Soup Supper
2016-11-15 18:00 - 21:00 | Hopewell Museum, 800 Pleasant St, Paris, KY, 40361, United States
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 Endowment for the Humanities.
