Bluegrass Heritage Museum

05/18/2026

Please join the Bluegrass Heritage Museum on May 26, 2026 for a tour of historic Rotherwood. Rotherwood was built by Asa Sphar for his bride in 1887. We will meet at Rotherwood, 3565 Paris Road, Wi******er, KY, at 5:30 p.m. A box supper is available for $10.00. Choices are chicken salad sandwich, pimento cheese, and ham and cheese. Also provided will be chips, drink, and cookie. Must sign up for the tour. Call the Bluegrass Heritage Museum from 12-4 to make a reservation. Phone number is 859-745-1358.

05/07/2026

Join us at the Bluegrass Heritage Museum on May 14, 2026 for a program entitled A "Thrifty and Respectable" Folk: Colorful Likenesses of Early Clark County by Sally Gant and Harry Enoch. The program begins at 6:30 p.m. and doors open at 6:00 p.m.
Learn about the "Bluegrass-Guilford Limner" an itinerant artist who worked in Kentucky, and other southern states. The artist visited homes in Clark County such as the Ragland's and Couchman's.
Also featured at the program will be Mack Cox’s collection of original portraits by the Bluegrass-Guilford Limner, including three portraits made in the Bush Settlement in Clark County.

05/01/2026

Julia Anna (Treon) Morgan, born in 1953 in Kettering, Ohio, died peacefully on April 16, 2026, in Lexington, Kentucky surrounded by her children. Julia is survived by her brother Chris; her children John, Zach, Sam, Mark, and Sara; and eight grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, John Lynn Morgan and her granddaughter Gwynyth Morgan. She was buried in a private ceremony on April 19, beside her husband John at the Hardy Bottom Cemetery in Leslie County, Kentucky.

After growing up in Kettering, Ohio, Julia obtained her bachelor’s degree and master’s in education at Georgetown College, where she and John met. John and Julia were married in 1976 and soon settled in Wi******er. She taught at Odell Gross Elementary in the 1980s. She left public education to homeschool her own children from 1988 to 2009, during which time she was active in her church and local homeschool support group.

Julia devoted her life to the care of her family, and took great pride in her children and grandchildren. She was a devoted follower of Jesus, and read her Bible through every year. Her favorite time each day was the quiet morning hour on her porch with coffee and the Bible. She was employed for the later part of her life at the Bluegrass Heritage Museum in Wi******er, where she welcomed local and out-of-town visitors, and cared for the legacy and history of Clark County and the old Guerrant Clinic buildings.

Julia’s friends all knew her as a sympathetic listener and a helping hand. Throughout her life she supported countless friends and family members through their time of need by cooking meals, cleaning, running errands, and serving as a birth doula and as a death doula.

A memorial gathering will be held at the Bluegrass Heritage Museum, 217 South Main Street, Wi******er, on June 7, 2:00-4:00 p.m. to remember her life. Friends are welcome.

04/06/2026

Join us at the Bluegrass Heritage Museum on April 9th at 217 South Main Street in Wi******er. Mr. and Mrs. Sublette will present a program about their life and experiences while living in the Marshall Islands. They will provide a slide show with photos depicting their adventures.
The doors open at 6:00 p.m. and program begins at 6:30 p.m. Refreshment will be served.

03/03/2026

Join the Bluegrass Heritage Museum as Eddie Price presents Kentuckians and Tennesseans at the Battle of New Orleans. The programs will be March 12 at 6:30 p.m. The museum is located at 217 South Main Street Wi******er, KY. Eddie's program highlights the brave men who left Kentucky and Tennessee to fight at the Battle of New Orleans. Historians agree that without the Tennessee and Kentucky militias, the battle could have had a much different outcome. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and program starts at 6:30 p.m. Refreshments served.

12/05/2025

Join us at the Bluegrass Heritage Museum for our December 2nd Thursday Program. The program will be December 11, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. We are located at 217 South Main Street. Our featured speaker will be Doug Naselroad, master luthier and founder of the Appalachian School of Luthiery. Doug has been making stringed instruments since 1969. After opening Naselroad Guitars in Mt. Sterling in 1979, he developed a signature line of stringed instruments and door harps that have been sold around the world. In 2012, he was selected as the Appalachian Artisan Center's Master Artist in woodworking and then established the Appalachian School of Luthiery located on Main Street in Hindman, KY. The doors will open at 6:00 p.m. and there will be refreshments following program.

11/25/2025

11/10/2025

Our 2nd Thursday Program
November 13, 2025
Hiking the Appalachian Trail

Karen Thompson will tell us about her adventures while hiking the Appalachian Trail (Georgia to Maine). Karen is a nature enthusiast and retired Federal Park Ranger. She has written a book about her many adventures on the trail, which was a lifelong dream for Thompson.

The doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the program begins at 6:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served.

10/06/2025

Bluegrass Heritage Museum presents a new exhibit at 21 Valentine Court. Opening October 9. Opening will be at museum at 6:00 p.m. and then move to 21 Valentine Court.