WEST POINT KENTUCKY HISTORY MUSEUM

WEST POINT, KY

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The West Point Kentucky History Museum in West Point KY is a local museum dedicated to preserving and displaying the history of the city and surrounding area. It was established in 2002 and is housed in the historic West Point Bank building. The museum is dedicated to the history of the town from its earliest years as a small trading post in the early 1800s to its development into a bustling river port and industrial hub during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The museum features a variety of exhibits, such as a historic timeline, photographs, artifacts, and other material showcasing the history of West Point KY. Visitors can also view exhibits on local Native American history, the original settlers of the area, and the growth of the local economy. There is also a special exhibit featuring memorabilia and artifacts from the town’s most famous resident, the late President Abraham Lincoln.

The West Point Kentucky History Museum also offers educational programs, such as lectures, workshops, and school field trips, which are available to the public. Additionally, the museum hosts a variety of special events, such as a monthly lecture series and a summer concert series, as well as special seasonal events. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, and admission is free.

WEST POINT KENTUCKY HISTORY MUSEUM is a Historical Societies, Historic Preservation in WEST POINT KY. US MID #8402100368

The museum is classed as HSC (Historical Societies, Historic Preservation). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Southeastern (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia).

1883 Southern Expo at Louisville–100 days of electric lights &quot;Grounds and building illuminated by thousands of electric lights&quot;

Poster display at the University of Louisville's Speed Art Museum

Indian beauty with an admiring bird Title: A Beauty at a window with a bird (circa 1675)
From: Deccan, Telangana, Golconda,
Artist: ? (South Asian, Indian)
Material: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, mounted on an album page
Venue: Speed Art Museum, University of Louisville on loan courtesy of The San Diego Museum of Art

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With my photographer's eyes, this rather risqué image from India was about leading lines, which I thought was a Western art thing. It apparently is not. Eyes being eyes, no matter where, leading lines are evident here in this classic Indian art.

The beguiling complementary colors and the fine detail in the brush strokes are striking. The art museum actually gave me a magnifying glass to better see those fine strokes.

The plaque next to the painting explained the art as what I relate to as sort of a Song of Solomon kind of thing– those poems of sexual desire in the Bible, e.g. &quot;your breasts are like twin fawns of a gazelle...blow on my garden&quot; [Song of Solomon 4: 5 &amp; 16 to name just a few], which are explained away as really about man's relationship with God. The plaque states:

&quot;This portrait of a beautiful woman sitting at a window with a bird delicately perched on her fingers may allude to the metaphor of the <i>gul u bulbul</i>, or rose and nightingale, stemming from classical Persian literature and adopted by Sufi mystics to reflect the ultimate bond of love with God. Within the conventions of Persianate and Indian mystical poetry, the soul's inexplicable longing for union with God is talked about in the language of earthly love--passionate and illicit...&quot;

Say it ain't so! This is but a small part of the dizzying ride in the cosmos that I'm on right now, even when I'm glued to my couch hidden safely in my man cave? Does anyone have a motion-sickness pill?

Not Saint Nicholas but Saint Jerome Artist: Zanetto Bugatto (Italian, active 1458 - 1476)
Title: 1 of 5 panels—Saint John the Baptist; Saint Christopher; Saint Jerome; Saint Lawrence; and Saint Ambrose (1470 - 1475)
Material: Oil on panel
Venue: Speed Art Museum, University of Louisville

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This is a 15th-century artist's depiction of Saint Jerome, whose name is engraved in his halo. I must confess that Saint Jerome looks much like Santa Claus, that is to say, Saint Nicholas. <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Nicholas" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Nicholas</a> was probably a bishop in Asia Minor during the Roman Empire of the 4th Century A.D. However, there have been no collaborating documents that record St. Nicholas' life, although his life was celebrated in festivals and traditions for centuries in both the Eastern and Western churches and a shrine to Nicholas has been in his alleged hometown since the 6th Century.

Both men, Saint Nicholas and <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Jerome" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Saint Jerome</a>, are from roughly the same period, wearing similar church outfits. In an illiterate world, Jerome is READING (signifying he was part of an educated elite) a BOOK. He is not reading through a papyrus scroll but he is privileged to have access to the quantum computer of his day, the beginnings of double-sided parchment pages of the back-binding codex, where one can easily flip through a voluminous collection of handwritten books such as the Bible to a specific page to quickly pinpoint the script.

Has anyone seen my cousin, the dodo bird? The colorful Nicobar pigeon of the Nicobar Islands, India, and Indonesia is the closest living relative of the extinct dodo bird.

Adam names the animals: There’s Doc Howladay, Simba, Cheesebro, Jaba the Butt, Buddy, Gizmo, Mr Meowgy, Fatty, Wiggles, Peewee, & Aggie the Gooch Artist: Carl Borromäus Andreas Ruthart (German, 1630 - 1703)
Title: Adam Naming the Animals (1686)
Material: Oil on canvas
Venue: Speed Art Museum, University of Louisville

See Genesis 2:19-20, Bible 😉(That's what I would've named them.)

Daydream of Pre-Columbian days at Chickasaw Park As I walked through the wild native fauna section of an Olmsted-designed landscape in Louisville, Kentucky, I was whisked away to another time over the Ohio River. When I walked a trail in a place called <i>Chickasaw</i> Park, my mind drifted to what this place was like and the various mysterious people who have walked on this Kentucky shore for over ten millennia–way before even the Chickasaw.

Wildlife in an Olmsted park Freeze or run? Easily clinging fast to the bark of a tree, an Eastern gray squirrel eyes the camera at the Frederick Law Olmsted-designed Central Park in Louisville, Kentucky.

Contact WEST POINT KENTUCKY HISTORY MUSEUM

WEST POINT HERITAGE FUND INC
1006 MAIN ST
WEST POINT
KY
40177-1134

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MID #	8402100368
Name	WEST POINT HERITAGE FUND INC
Alternate Name	WEST POINT KENTUCKY HISTORY MUSEUM
Classification	Historical Societies, Historic Preservation, , Southeastern
Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN)	611271938
NTEECC	A82
Tax period of the latest return filed (YYYYMM)	201112
INCOME	0
REVENUE	0
LAT/LONG	37.996842, -85.954324
CODES	FIPS State Code: 21 FIPS County Code: 093 US Census Tract: 000100 US Census Block: 1071