Bluegrass Heritage Museum’s Second Thursday returns this week
Published 10:00 am Wednesday, October 11, 2023
- Eddie Prince will put on a historical performance centered around the famous camp meeting held at Cane Ride in 1801. (Photo submitted)
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News Release
History will come alive at the Bluegrass Heritage Museum on Thursday.
Eddie Price will present “What I Saw at Cane Ridge – The Great Revival that Transformed Kentucky.”
Through dramatic interpretation, Price “recounts” what he and others “saw” at Cane Ridge on that fateful week in August 1801. Some people referred to the event as the Second Pentecost; others sought to discredit it entirely.
But no one can deny that it changed lives and shaped Kentucky’s (and the Deep South’s) social and cultural development. When politicians and sociologists use the term “Bible Belt,” they can trace the origin back to Cane Ridge! Kentucky was transformed from a lawless frontier population to a church-going state.
Price’s performance is the museum’s monthly Second Thursday program. The doors open at 6 p.m., with the performance to follow at 6:30 p.m.
The Bluegrass Heritage Museum is located at 217 South Main Street and is open Monday-Saturday from noon to 4 p.m.
