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August 01, 2008

Museum program

"The Renick Rifle and Gunmaking in Kentucky" will be the topic of a special program at the Bluegrass Heritage Museum at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7. The program will take the place of the museum's usual Second Thursday program.

Jimmy Caudill, who was born and raised on the site of Strode Station in Clark County will speak. He is a longtime collector of Native American artifacts and since childhood has been interested in Kentucky's frontier settlement period.

For many years his grandparents and parents operated the Caudill Implement Co., which they acquired from the McCormick Brothers. The company made bluegrass seed harvesters.

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Caudill worked for East Kentucky Power for 38 years and lives and farms in Clark County.

Ron Penn will speak about the late John Jacob Niles, a Kentucky folk music legend and Clark County resident at the Sept. 11 Second Thursday. All programs are held at the museum, 217 S. Main St., and are open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

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