The City of Elkton and Kentucky Humanities bring Smithsonian exhibit, Hometown Teams, to Elkton, KY.
ELKTON, KY (September 15, 2017) – The City of Elkton and Kentucky Humanities will explore how sports shape our lives and communities with the Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit, Hometown Teams, which opens Saturday, October 7th.
The exhibit will be on display at the Todd County Welcome Center (Historic Todd County Courthouse) until Veterans Day, November 11th. Hometown Teams will be open during those dates each Sunday from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m.; each Monday and Tuesday for Special Groups only; and each Wednesday through Saturday from 12 p.m. until 7 p.m.
The “Kickoff” for Hometown Teams will be on Saturday, October 7th, at 9 a.m. on the Square in Elkton at the Todd County Welcome Center (Historic Todd County Courthouse). In addition to the Smithsonian exhibit, a collection of sports memorabilia from local sports teams and well-known sports figures from our community will be on display.
For updated information about events taking place in conjunction with the Hometown Teams exhibit, please visit the website of the City of Elkton at elktonky.com or watch for information on Facebook.
Hometown Teams captures the stories that unfold on the neighborhood fields and courts, and the underdog heroics, larger-than-life legends, fierce rivalries and gut-wrenching defeats. For more than 100 years, sports have reflected the trials and triumphs of the American experience and helped shape the national character. Whether it is professional sports or those played on the collegiate or scholastic level, amateur sports or sports played by kids on the local playground, sports are everywhere in America. Nowhere do Americans more intimately connect to sports than in their hometowns.
Kentucky Humanities chose the City of Elkton to host Hometown Teams as part of the Museum on Main Street project — a national/state/local partnership to bring exhibitions and programs to rural cultural organizations. Museum on Main Street is a partnership of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and state humanities councils nationwide. The United States Congress and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet provide support to the Museum on Main Street project. The exhibition is touring 15 communities in Kentucky from March 18, 2017 through December 29, 2018. This program has been made possible through a matching grant from the Kentucky Humanities Council in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Humanities.
“Sharing exhibits from our nation’s premier museum with rural Kentucky communities is an endeavor Kentucky Humanities is passionate about,” said Bill Goodman, executive director. “We knew that Hometown Teams was the perfect exhibit for us to bring to the Commonwealth, given the state’s passion for sports.”
Kentucky Humanities is a non-profit Kentucky corporation affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities. For information about Kentucky Humanities programs and services, visit kyhumanities.org. For information about Hometown Teams and other Museum on Main Street exhibitions, visit museumonmainstreet.org.
