Main Street, More Than Just a Place!
From the producer of the My Kentucky Home series, travel with us around the Commonwealth to experience the heart and breath of our communities…. Main Street. Two years in production, this thirty-minute documentary takes a look at our communities in a different way. You’ll meet a few of our communities’ best! They have a passion that is only surpassed by the projects in which they are engaged, from preservation and revitalization to “Let’s Paint the Town!” These visionaries are working to preserve our downtowns’ heritages, working to give back life to those boarded up historical buildings, and even shedding the tears when one of those precious buildings are occupied (and rightfully so!).
You’ll hear from Jeff Crowe, CEO of Tour Southern and Eastern Kentucky, and be surprised what a trip abroad enlightened him about Kentucky. You’ll meet Kathie Hickie, a former Main Street manager, who discusses an organizational structure found within the Main Street program that any business could readily adopt and successfully implement. Mayor Gale Cherry from Princeton discusses the solution to apathy and tired run-down buildings and illuminates how her city has become a model for other communities across the county. Along with others, we’ll see how Main Streets are at the very threshold of economic development and how the National Trust for Preservation can be an ally for sustaining this economic development.
Yes, Kentuckians can be proud of what they are achieving on their Main Streets, and yes,this program is a celebration for all of those whose passions lie within preservation and revitalization of our downtowns. After all, isn’t this in part of what we are all about?
PREMIERE DATES
November 19, 2010- Barbourville, KY, 6:00 p.m., Barbourville/Knox County Visitors Center. (Read article from Times-Tribune, Corbin, KY, page 1 and page 2.)
December 6, 2010- Somerset, KY, 10th Annual Tourism Forum
December 11, 2010- Covington, KY, 6:00 p.m., Artisans Enterprise Center, 27 W. 7th Street
May 2011- Princeton, KY