We had a very interesting slide presentation by Dr. Fred Ripley that covered some interesting portions of the Pennsylvania Railroad last month. Fred is an accomplished photographer and had some great morning and twilight time photos to show us.

It looks as if The Center will be turned over to the City of Madisonville on July 1st of this year.  They could not find a buyer for the old train depot and the City has agreed to take it over for possibly several kinds of future uses. I have met twice with our Mayor and he is agreeable to our continued use of the facilities so we should be in good shape for at least the near future. This is an excellent facility for us and I was able to joke with him about how the train noise does not bother us in the least. I am not sure about the status of the audio/visual equipment so we are trying to put together programs that can be shown without the fancy equipment that we have become used to. Hopefully, we will know more about this in a month or two but for now the June and following meetings will be held as usual.

Remember that the May meeting will be held in Hopkinsville as usual but this year it will be at the old L&N train depot downtown where we have had meetings in the past.  Also, because the 4th Monday of May is not Memorial Day this year we will be meeting on this day which is May 24th.  So, I am hoping to see all of your smiling faces in beautiful downtown Hopkinsville at 7pm on May 24th.