Frankfort Heritage Lecture Serie: A History of the Kentucky Militia and National Guard
Schedule
Sat, 09 May, 2026 at 01:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
319 Wapping St, Frankfort, KY, United States, Kentucky 40601 | Frankfort, KY
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Join museum curator Nicky Hughes as he explores the history of the Kentucky Militia and Kentucky National Guard from the frontier era through World War II. Kentucky's citizen soldiers over those decades played essential roles in both the nation's wars and peacetime life in the commonwealth. The picture-illustrated talk is hosted by a costumed living history character depicting an early 19th century Kentucky Militia colonel. Nicky Hughes went to work for the Kentucky Historical Society in 1973. He was very active in the establishment of the Kentucky Military History Museum, which opened in 1974. He served as curator of that museum until 1986 and remained with KHS until 1997, acting as Museums Division Manager and then as curator of the Old State Capitol. He finished his time with Kentucky state government in the Finance and Administration Cabinet’s Office of Historic Properties.
In 2000, Hughes joined the City of Frankfort’s Department of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Sites. He was responsible for the establishment of Leslie Morris Park on Fort Hill as a functional historic site and the formation of the Capital City Museum. Retiring from full-time work for the City of Frankfort in 2012, he later served as director of the Shelby County Historical Society and is now Innkeeper at the Sandford Duncan Inn, a historic site in Simpson County. A co-founder of Frankfort Heritage Press, Hughes co-authored three major pictorial histories of Frankfort and a history of the Frankfort Cemetery.
Please register at https://www.pspl.org/event/fhls-soldier. For more information, contact Diane Dehoney at (502) 352-2665 x100 or [email protected].
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