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09/04/2026

Casey Jones Distillery has your Labor Day weekend covered starting today! KK Coney will be out on the patio serving up their stellar smoked meats, sides and desserts, while live music plays as the sun goes down. What a perfect setting!

A Labor of Love begins TODAY at Casey Jones Distillery! 🥃🎶

Join us today and tomorrow for:
🌭 KK Coney food truck all day YUMMY MENU
🎶 Live music as the sun sets
🥃 Our 2026 Single Barrel Bourbon release
🤏 The debut of our new 100 mL bottles
❄️ Plenty of air-conditioned inside comfort!

PLUS++++FROZEN MOONARITAS ARE BACK! In Fact, you can have any drink make frozen.

Bring the kids, bring the dog and bring your appetite! You can get your food and enjoy it inside where it’s cool.

The Labor Day celebration starts today and continues through Monday!

09/03/2026

Are y'all ready for a fun, long weekend? We are already making our list of things we want to do and see! Both of our local distilleries, MB Roland Distillery and Casey Jones Distillery, have big events lined up for the weekend,so check both of them out. And Saturday is going to be a very Dolly weekend for several downtown businesses. Vist The Book & Bottle Shop, Hopkinsville Brewing Company, Baked Hopkinsville and The Mixer to show your love and support of children's literacy. 9.5% of sales will go towards the Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library Imagination Library fund. And, last but not least, head out to Burdoc Farms Weddings & Events for their first annual Hops and Harvest Lantern Festival featuring craft b**r, food trucks, music and a spectacular lantern display. It doesn't get much BATTER than this, Hoptown!!

09/02/2026

Tomorrow is the day! We will see you bright and early at the Silo Event Center to announce this year's United Way of the Pennyrile fundraising goal!

📣ONE WEEK!!
Join us on Thursday, September 3 at 7:30 a.m. at The Silo Event Center as we officially kick off the 2026–2027 United Way of the Pennyrile Campaign!

Be there as Amy Watson NC5 & Derrick unveil this year's campaign video, introduce our incredible campaign division volunteers, recognize our Pacesetter donors, and reveal this year's fundraising goal.

Thank you to our amazing sponsors- ExxonMobil, Hopkinsville Electric System & EnergyNet, Rogers Group Inc., Atmos Energy and Bastin Optometric Clinic !

You won't want to miss this exciting morning. Mark your calendars now because YOU are the Story! 📰❤️

09/02/2026

It is going to be a Very Dolly Saturday in Hopkinsville this weekend! Several area businesses are having a day of donation in honor of the late queen. Hopkinsville Brewing Company, Baked Hopkinsville, The Book & Bottle Shop and The Mixer are all donating 9.5% of the proceeds sold on 9/5/26 to the Imagination Library of the Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library which was Dolly's favorite charity. And plus, you get to visit some of the coolest shops in town! Even if you can't make it out this Saturday, donations can be made to the HCCPL Imagination Library by check but just make sure to put "Imagination Library" in the memo line! 🦋📖

08/31/2026

If you haven't heard of Gant Gaither, you need to look him up! He was a FASCINATING human born right here in Hopkinsville! And this year, the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County is honoring his fabulousness with Palm Royale: The Gant Gaither Gala on Friday, September 18th. But they also need your creativity! If you are an artist or just love to create, please consider using one of Gant's beautiful art works as your inspiration to create whatever you like! See the link below for details. They'd love to feature your art work in their gala silent auction to benefit the Hopkinsville History Foundation!
https://www.museumsofhopkinsville.org/gala/

CALLING ALL ARTISTS! 📣

As part of the museum's Gant Gaither Gala on Friday, Sept. 18, we will be holding a silent art auction featuring eight pieces of Gaither's work - and art by YOU!

We invite any and all local artists to submit a piece to the gala using our selected Gaither artifacts as inspiration. Any art medium will be accepted - feel free to think as far inside or outside the box as you’d like!

Your artwork will be on display at the museum the week leading up to the gala and up for auction the evening of.

NOTE: We politely request that no artwork is submitted that was made with generative AI.

Learn more about Create from the Collection and view our Gaither artifacts here:
https://www.museumsofhopkinsville.org/gala/

08/28/2026

Don't forget! Saturday, August 29th will be story time with the Christian County Literacy Council here at the Visitor Center. A cute book with activities to follow. This really is fun for all ages!! 11:00am here at Visit Hopkinsville- 1730 East 9th St.

It's time for Story Time again! We love partnering with the Christian County Literacy Council for a free story time with activities each month. The books are usually tailored for our elementary school kiddos, but the activities are fun for everyone! Adults and kids alike! So, stop by the Visitor Center this Saturday at 11:00am to have some literary fun!! 1730 East 9th St.

08/27/2026

This Friday is the event to be at!! The Friends of the Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library are hosting a Gatsby Gala to benefit our Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library. This is a red carpet event with music, dancing and specialty drinks. The event starts at 6:00pm at the Showbox Hopkinsville. So get ready for a swinging good time!!
https://www.theshowbox.net/?date=2026-08-28

08/27/2026

It's that time again! Time to start planning your weekend!! Stop by the Ruffled Willow for their Fall Open House or maybe stop by the new high school to get a quick tour. As always, lots of places are featuring live music and karaoke and food trucks! But definitely don't miss the Friends of the Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library's event The Gatsby Gala taking place this Friday at the Showbox Hopkinsville and on Saturday stop by the Visitor Center for a Beyond the Books Storytime!


Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library Casey Jones Distillery The Book & Bottle Shop Hopkinsville Brewing Company Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel

08/26/2026

The perfect Dolly tribute!

*Edit to add: if you'd like to support HCCPL's Imagination Library, checks can be made out to HCCPL with "Imagination Library" in the memo line.

What can we say about Dolly that hasn't already been said? Anything we type will pale in comparison to what's been written, so we want to focus on what we can do to honor her memory:

A lot of you know that Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library has its own Imagination Library program. But here are some things you may not know about it:

📕Every child in Christian County from birth to age 5 is eligible to receive a *free* book every single month
📗Last month, 2,734 children in Christian County received an Imagination Library book
📘Each book costs approximately $2.20 - about $155 per child over the five years of eligibility
📙While state government covers some of the cost of each book, HCCPL is required to raise the rest of the funds - the library currently spends $43,500 each year on the program

We want to support HCCPL's Imagination Library program, so on September 5th (9-5, get it?), we will be donating 9.5% of our total sales in memory of Dolly and everything she did to support early childhood reading. 📚❤️📚