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    1. [KYHENDER] Historymobile brining exhibit on Daniel Boone to The Welcome Center
    2. Netta
    3. The Kentucky Historical Society's Historymobile, currently housing an exhibit titled "The Life & Legend of Daniel Boone," is coming to The Welcome Center in downtown Henderson on March 20-21. The Historymobile (a mobile museum housed inside a 45-foot semi-trailer) will be parked in front of The Welcome Center at 101 N. Water Street and open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days. Daniel Boone may be Kentucky's most famous and celebrated historical figure. His name is surrounded by myth and legend, but Boone was, in fact, an explorer and adventurer, surveyor, settler, merchant, hunter and trapper, soldier and proud family man. Please note: Colonel Richard Henderson hired Daniel Boone to look over our part of Kentucky and with 30 woodsman cut out the Wilderness Trail for the settlers to come to Henderson and claim their lands. This exhibit attempts to separate the real man from the legends. Within the exhibit are images, test, and a specially produced 10-minute video narrated by Fess Parker, who starred in "Daniel Boone" on television in the 1960s. Visitors to the exhibit will also see models of a typical frontier fort and a pioneer homestead. Other exhibit cases feature weapons of the period, items from the TV series, goods commonly found in frontier homes and commemorative medals and coins. There is no charge to view the Historymovile exhibits. The Henderson County Historical & Genealogical Society will also have an exhibit on Daniel Boone in their Research Library along with a history about Daniel Boone composed by Mrs. Lillian Thixton past president of the Society to hand out and a book from one of our very own members who is a direct descendant from one of Daniel Boone's brothers will be on display. Netta Mullin, President Henderson County Historical & Genealogical Society

    03/15/2007 02:23:45