Frankfort Heritage Lecture Series - Odd and Unknown: Frankfort's Unexplainable Phenomena

Name: Frankfort Heritage Lecture Series - Odd and Unknown: Frankfort's Unexplainable Phenomena
Start: 2025-10-11T13:00:00-04:00
Location: 319 Wapping St, Frankfort, KY, United States, Kentucky 40601

Schedule

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025 at 01:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

319 Wapping St, Frankfort, KY, United States, Kentucky 40601 | Frankfort, KY

Join Dr. Eleanor Hasken-Wagner as she presents some of Frankfort's odd phenomena from the historical record and invites consideration for how to approach these bizarre occurrences as a folklorist and historian. Not strictly storytelling, not strictly debunking, and not strictly verification, this presentation offers tools for handling the weirder moments from our past.
Dr. Eleanor Hasken-Wagner is the Museum and Historic Sites Supervisor for the city of Frankfort. She holds a Master’s degree in Folk Studies from Western Kentucky University and a Doctorate in Folklore & Ethnomusicology from Indiana University. Her graduate work produced two publications: a dissertation titled The Migration of a Local Legend: The Case of Mothman and a thesis titled "Performing Gender in Bowling, or, 'I Was in Shock Other Girls Could Bowl."
Throughout her graduate programs, she was well-known for her love of teaching, which has led her to continue to teach an Introduction to Folklore Course at University of Kentucky as a lecturer in the Modern and Classical Languages Department. As the Museum and Historic Sites Supervisor, her primary responsibility is to manage administrative duties, plan events, ensure the preservation of the historic Fort Hill at Leslie Morris Park, and curate exhibits at the Capital City Museum. She is a graduate of Leadership Frankfort, class of 2023, and a Kentucky Colonel. She is a frequent community lecturer and the writer/host of the award-winning, Kentucky Deceased: Hauntings of Frankfort podcast. In her spare time, she can be found tinkering on vintage mopeds and doing fiber-based arts.
Please register at https://www.pspl.org/event/fhls-hasken-wagner. For more information, contact Diane Dehoney at (502) 352-2665 x100 or [email protected].