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Blue Wildflowers Blooming

Executive Director Jacqueline Hamilton portrays two Kentucky Chautauqua characters: mountain educator Alice Lloyd (left) and mystery writer Sue Grafton (right). These presentations are only booked through the Kentucky Humanities Council.

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How to Book
Chautauqua & Front Porch Talks

1. Email Jacqueline at jacqueline@whywrite.org to confirm availability.

2. Upon confirmation of date, complete your payment. For a Chautauqua character go to kyhumanities.org. For Front Porch Talks, go to our booking page.

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Front
Porch
Talks

The Story

Barbed wire to Bluegrass:

Holocaust Survivors in Kentucky

 

Unbelievable

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Inside the Lincoln White House

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Who Remembers 

Erma Bombeck?

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April 24, Yeah That Date!

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Patriots in Petticoats:

Revolutionary Heroines

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A Pencil Grows in Kentucky

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Holocaust survivors rebuilt their lives in Kentucky. Discover how eighth graders partnered with a survivor to reshape state education—then join the moving candle-lighting remembrance tradition.

From snake handlers to Shaker Village, Kentucky's spiritual history stuns: America's first camp meeting, Billy Graham's mentor, a basilica's giant stained-glass window, and fudge-making monks.

Elizabeth Keckly—once enslaved—became Mary Todd Lincoln's confidante and dressmaker, the first person summoned after the assassination. See her stunning gowns and haunting firsthand story.

America's beloved humorist graced refrigerators nationwide for decades. Discover her hilarious columns, unforgettable book titles, and the surprising ERA activism that sparked a backlash.

One legendary author sparked Kentucky Writers' Day—but the story explodes from there. Meet the novelists, journalists, and poets who put the Bluegrass on literature's map.

​A woman's name is on the Declaration of Independence. A teen outrode Paul Revere. Meet the forgotten spies, soldiers, and rebels who helped birth America.

Appalachian women turned hardship into poetry. Seventy young Kentuckians gave voice to forgotten heroines—proof that words still empower in an AI-driven age.

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