Shelby County Kentucky
Historical Society

About The Events

Members, join us for our annual Members’ Christmas Dinner which includes an entertaining program by guest speaker by Eddie Price, as we celebrate the holidays with this program. Take a journey back to 1811 and experience homemaking on the Kentucky Frontier – “From the ground up.” Learn how frontier folk cultivated and preserved their food, made their clothes, doctored their families, and still found time for recreation and religion. Cooking on open hearths, hemp and flax breaking, heckling, spinning, weaving, and dyeing will be examined as well as Native American and folk remedies. This program is part show & tell – Eddie will display utensils used by early Kentuckians and provide a PowerPoint slideshow.

Eddie Price is a Kentucky native. A graduate of Kentucky Wesleyan College (BA) and Western Kentucky University (MA and Rank I), Eddie taught history for 31 years at Hancock County High School, and taught part-time classes for Owensboro Community & Technical College. Eddie is active in the Hancock County Historical Society and helped organize the Young Historians Club. He is the author of Widder’s Landing, One Drop – A Slave!, Rebels Abroad, An Unlikely Trio (The Winners of the 1913 Kentucky Derby), and the Little Miss Grubby Toes series of children’s books. Eddie also portrays jockey Roscoe Goose for the Kentucky Humanities Council Chautauqua program, and is a speaker for the Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau. Eddie will have a selection of books for sale.

This is a Members’- Only program and reservations are required by calling or texting (502) 487-0379 or emailing director@shelbykyhistory.org by Friday, November 28th. Members may bring a guest. Dinner and program will be held at Claudia Sanders Dinner House, 3202 Shelbyville Rd., Shelbyville, KY. Cost is $35 per person for buffet. Cash bar begins at 5:30 pm. Dinner at 6 pm with a brief business meeting to follow, then the program by Eddie Price.