BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Ancestral Trails - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Ancestral Trails X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://aths.site X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Ancestral Trails REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Kentucky/Louisville BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20280312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20281105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20251107T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20251107T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T191148 CREATED:20250206T003100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250206T003100Z UID:2597-1762542000-1762547400@aths.site SUMMARY:ATHS Meeting: Tribute to Valor and Courage Revisited DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eric Lee\nTopic: Tribute to Valor and Courage Revisited. Eric was chosen to speak this month in honor of the   many individuals who served our country.\nEveryone is invited to attend. Light refreshments served.\n\nEric  served eight years in the military. He is a veteran of the Persian Gulf War. Serving in the 101st Airborne Division and the Third Armored Division.\n He is a author\, husband\, father\, and son of a World War II and Korean War era veteran. Eric  has chronicled many prolific stories of America’s “Greatest Generation” in his revised  work entitled Tribute to Valor and Courage Revisited and shared their accomplishments through presentations in bookstores\, churches\, schools\, retirement homes\, libraries and other venues. Eric will be sharing the many stories of veterans. URL:https://aths.site/event/aths-meeting-tribute-to-valor-and-courage-revisited/ LOCATION:Elizabethtown Community & Technical College\, 620 College Street Road\, Elizabethtown\, Kentucky\, 42701 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20251205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20251205T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T191148 CREATED:20250628T213043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250727T212815Z UID:19889-1764961200-1764966600@aths.site SUMMARY:ATHS Meeting: Topic: Kentucky Rising: 1815-1820 DESCRIPTION:Speaker Eddie Price\nTopic: Kentucky Rising: 1815-1820\nThis program looks at Kentucky in the first five years after the War of 1812.\nWith Henry Clay as Speaker of the House and an increasing presence on the\nnational stage\, Kentucky develops into one of the more influential states in\nthe union. Clay presses for an American System \, protective tariff and\nnetwork of federally funded highways and canals. He also brings the first\nHereford cattle to his estate at Ashland\, KY. Steamboat travel increases on\nthe Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Hemp will mean new opportunities for some\nKentuckians as the cotton trade and world markets expand. \nThe meeting will be held in room 303AB in the Occupational Technical Building (OTB) \n  URL:https://aths.site/event/aths-meeting-topic-kentucky-rising-1815-1820/ LOCATION:Elizabethtown Community & Technical College\, 620 College Street Road\, Elizabethtown\, Kentucky\, 42701 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20251205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20251205T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T191148 CREATED:20251219T193523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251219T193634Z UID:20078-1764961200-1764966600@aths.site SUMMARY:ATHS Meeting: The Merlin Deposition. DESCRIPTION:Presentation:  Speaker Robert Prather will discuss historical fiction\, entitled The Merlin Deposition.\nAuthors Robert Prather and Cyrus Alderwood weave an incredible tale of Merlin\, King\nArthur\, and ancient magic on the British Isles. URL:https://aths.site/event/aths-meeting-the-merlin-deposition/ LOCATION:Elizabethtown Community & Technical College\, 620 College Street Road\, Elizabethtown\, Kentucky\, 42701 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260102T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260102T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T191148 CREATED:20251119T053720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T053720Z UID:19983-1767380400-1767380400@aths.site SUMMARY:ATHS Meeting: No Meeting this month DESCRIPTION:The college is closed URL:https://aths.site/event/aths-meeting-no-meeting-this-month/ LOCATION:Kentucky END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260202T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260207T140000 DTSTAMP:20260430T191148 CREATED:20260202T221006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T222658Z UID:20151-1770026400-1770472800@aths.site SUMMARY:ATHS Library is closed this week due to snow DESCRIPTION:ATHS Library is closed this week due to snow URL:https://aths.site/event/aths-library-is-closed-this-week-due-to-snow/ LOCATION:Kentucky END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260207T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260207T150000 DTSTAMP:20260430T191148 CREATED:20251209T004846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251218T215335Z UID:20030-1770458400-1770476400@aths.site SUMMARY:ATHS Annual Book Fair DESCRIPTION:Annual Book fair\, 10 AM-3 PM URL:https://aths.site/event/aths-annual-book-fair/ LOCATION:Pritchard Community Center\, 404 South Mulberry St\, Kentucky\, 42701 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260213T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260213T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T191148 CREATED:20251209T005521Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251218T224952Z UID:20033-1771009200-1771014600@aths.site SUMMARY:ATHS Meeting Indentured Servant DESCRIPTION:Date: February 13\, 2026\, 7 PM EST\nLocation: ECTC\, 600 College Street\, Jim Owens Building\, Room 112\nPresentation: “ Indentured Servant”\nSpeakers : Frank and Carol Jarboe\nSpeaker bio: Frank and Carol Jarboe are both researchers\, historians\, and retired teachers\nwho portray unknown history that shaped lives\, social and historical culture\, and events\nthroughout the U.S. Avid Living Historians\, they have studied and portrayed time periods\nof US history from 1750 to 1835. They travel continually\, covering characters from all\nwalks of life URL:https://aths.site/event/aths-meeting-indentured-servant/ LOCATION:Elizabethtown Community & Technical College\, 620 College Street Road\, Elizabethtown\, Kentucky\, 42701 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260306T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260306T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T191148 CREATED:20251219T173810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251219T173810Z UID:20051-1772823600-1772829000@aths.site SUMMARY:ATHS Meeting: Women’s Fashion during the 1800s in Kentucky and Indiana DESCRIPTION:March 2026\nDate: March 6 2026\, 7 PM EST\nLocation: ECTC\, 600 College Street\, Jim Owens Building\, Room 112\n\nSpeaker: Dawn Banks\nSpeaker bio: Dawn and her husband\, Steve\, live on a farm in Corydon\, Indiana. Dawn is a\nretired Special Education teacher\, a horse breeder of Appaloosa horses\, and is\npassionate about history. She is especially passionate about the authenticity of clothing\nworn during the 1800s. She is a seamstress who sews historic clothing and has\nresearched it to ensure its authenticity URL:https://aths.site/event/aths-meeting-womens-fashion-during-the-1800s-in-kentucky-and-indiana/ LOCATION:Elizabethtown Community & Technical College\, 620 College Street Road\, Elizabethtown\, Kentucky\, 42701 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260403T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260403T173000 DTSTAMP:20260430T191148 CREATED:20251219T175806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260302T205924Z UID:20054-1775232000-1775237400@aths.site SUMMARY:ATHS Meeting: Presentation: Stories about Blue Ball Hill DESCRIPTION:Location: OFF-SITE\, 417 Salem School Road\, Rineyville\, KY\n \nGlen Harrington                                        Westley Burnett \nA main feature\, Blue Ball Hill\, can be seen for miles at its 1017 ft elevation. Enjoy the\nscenic view from the top of Blue Ball Hill\, an old-fashioned hayride\, and visiting with\nfriends and making new ones.\nSpeaker: Glenn Harrington and Wesley Burnett\nBio: Glenn Harrington is a lifelong resident of Cecilia\, a farmer\, historian\, leader\, speaker\,\nand advocate of Cecilia Community events. Glenn owns the farm located at 317 Salem\nRoad. \nWesley Burnett is a lifelong citizen of Hardin County\, Ky.\, and a Retired business owner\nof Burnett Insulation. Wesley has spent many years during his youth on Blue Ball Hill.\nIn the event of rain/bad weather\, the meeting will be held at the Cecilia Ruritan Building. URL:https://aths.site/event/aths-meeting-presentation-stories-about-blue-ball-hill/ LOCATION:417 Salem School Road\, Rineyville\, KY\, KY\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260501T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260501T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T191148 CREATED:20260419T222045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260419T223619Z UID:20167-1777662000-1777667400@aths.site SUMMARY:Ancestral Trails Historical Monthly Meeting DESCRIPTION:ECTC\, JSO Building\, room 112\n\nSpeaker:Speaker: Nancy Richey \nProfessor / Special Formats Librarian \nSpecial Collections \nWestern Kentucky University \nProgram:  Mose Rager: Kentucky’s Incomparable Guitar \nThis presentation tells the story of a true Kentucky music legend who preferred living the quiet life to the fame he could have earned playing the country music circuit. \nThere are many country guitar legends\, such as Chet Atkins\, Merle Travis\, and Eddie Pennington\, who trace the roots of their music to this shy guitar master of Muhlenberg County\, Kentucky (home of the Everly Brothers). Known for developing this unique thumb -picking style\, Mose worked as a barber and a coal miner when he wasn’t playing gigs with Grandpa Jones\, Curly Fox\, and Texas Ruby. \nMose died on May 14\, 1986; his sound lives on when modern-day pickers try to play\, That Muhlenberg Sound.” \n  \n  URL:https://aths.site/event/ancestral-trails-historical-monthly-meeting/ LOCATION:Elizabethtown Community & Technical College\, 620 College Street Road\, Elizabethtown\, Kentucky\, 42701 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260605T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260605T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T191148 CREATED:20251219T184704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251219T184704Z UID:20063-1780686000-1780691400@aths.site SUMMARY:ATHS Meeting: Lincoln’s life DESCRIPTION:Larry will be in character as Lincoln as soon as he walks up to the microphone! The time\nis March 20th\, 1865He will discuss the long and bloody Civil War. As Lincoln\, he will\nrecite the Gettysburg Address\, just as our nation was on November 19\, 1863\nSpeaker : Larry Elliott\nSpeaker bio: Larry is connected to Abraham Lincoln not through blood but through a role\nhis great\, great\, great\, great-grandmother (Mary LaRue Enlow)\, a midwife who helped\ndeliver him. What a wonderful way to connect with history.\nLarry grew up in Louisville\, Kentucky. Larry completed high school at Pleasure Ridge\nPark High School. He attended 13 different schools before graduating from high school.\nLarry later attended the University of Kentucky and graduated with a degree in business.\nHis professional career was as an insurance salesman\, and he was very successful. Mary\,\nhis wife\, dresses as Mary Todd Lincoln and often accompanies Larry at his presentations. URL:https://aths.site/event/aths-meeting-lincolns-life/ LOCATION:Elizabethtown Community & Technical College\, 620 College Street Road\, Elizabethtown\, Kentucky\, 42701 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260703T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260703T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T191148 CREATED:20251219T190516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251219T190516Z UID:20067-1783105200-1783110600@aths.site SUMMARY:No Meeting this month DESCRIPTION:No Meeting this month URL:https://aths.site/event/no-meeting-this-month/ LOCATION:Kentucky END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260807T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260807T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T191148 CREATED:20251219T191226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251219T191226Z UID:20069-1786129200-1786134600@aths.site SUMMARY:ATHS Meeting: History of Elizabethtown Masonic / Mason History DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jefery Richason\nSpeaker bio: Jeffery is a long-time resident of Hardin County. He came to our area per his\nfather’s military service. Jeffery is a graduate of North Hardin High School. Jeffery is a\nfirst-generation Free Mason. He joined in 2013\, served as Master in 2017\, and has served\nas Secretary since 2020. Jeffery is one of the leaders of the tours of the Masonic Building\nthat they provide. URL:https://aths.site/event/aths-meeting-history-of-elizabethtown-masonic-mason-history/ LOCATION:Elizabethtown Community & Technical College\, 620 College Street Road\, Elizabethtown\, Kentucky\, 42701 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260904T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20260904T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T191148 CREATED:20251219T191856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251219T191856Z UID:20072-1788548400-1788553800@aths.site SUMMARY:ATHS Meeting: Patriots\, Pioneers\, Politicians and Lawmen DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Faith Shacklett\nSpeaker bio: Faith graduated from Western Kentucky University in 2024 with a\nbachelor’s in history and social studies. Faith is currently a Graduate student with the\nUniversity of Kentucky’s library science program. Faith loves genealogy and local history\,\nparticularly the Civil War Era. URL:https://aths.site/event/aths-meeting-patriots-pioneers-politicians-and-lawmen/ LOCATION:Elizabethtown Community & Technical College\, 620 College Street Road\, Elizabethtown\, Kentucky\, 42701 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20261002T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20261002T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T191148 CREATED:20260131T193834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260131T195052Z UID:20141-1790967600-1790973000@aths.site SUMMARY:ATHS meeting: Family History Month DESCRIPTION:  \n \nPresentation by: Teresa Wise will talk about her mother Irene Helen Crabtree \nTeresa\, in honor of her mother\, will give a presentation on Irene Helen Crabtree’s life. Irene was a native of Brzostek\, Poland. At the age of 14\, during World War II\, Irene and her older sister Wanda were taken by the German Army and forced into slave labor in Salzburg\, Austria. In 1945\, they were freed by the U.S. Army and placed into a displaced persons camp with the United Nations Relief Organization. In 1949\, her Uncle Frank Begos assisted Irene with her immigration to America. \n  \n  URL:https://aths.site/event/aths-meeting-family-history-month/ LOCATION:Kentucky END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20261106T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20261106T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T191148 CREATED:20251219T192806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251219T192806Z UID:20075-1793991600-1793997000@aths.site SUMMARY:ATHS Meeting: The Holt House\, Saving\, Restoring\, and Opening of the Judge Holt Home DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Susan Dyer\nBio: Susan is a retired language arts teacher\, historian\, and author. Breckinridge County\nnative. Susan works faithfully on saving the Judge Holt home. Susan has written several\nbooks: Joseph Holt and Joseph Holt Mansion. Saving and Restoring the Home of Lincoln’s\nJude Advocate General and Lincoln’s advocate: The life of Judge Holt. URL:https://aths.site/event/aths-meeting-the-holt-house-saving-restoring-and-opening-of-the-judge-holt-home/ LOCATION:Elizabethtown Community & Technical College\, 620 College Street Road\, Elizabethtown\, Kentucky\, 42701 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20261204T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20261204T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T191148 CREATED:20260131T214249Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260131T214249Z UID:20147-1796410800-1796416200@aths.site SUMMARY:ATHS Meeting: Historical Fiction "The Merlin Deposition" DESCRIPTION:Presentation: Robert Prather will discuss historical fiction\, entitled TheMerlin Deposition.\nAuthors Robert Prather and Cyrus Alderwood weave an incredible tale of Merlin\, King\nArthur\, and ancient magic on the British Isles.\n\nBio Pratheris the author of the award-winning book\,The Strange Case of Jonathan Swift and the Real Long John Silver. He has been\nfeatured on the popular series— History Channel’s “America’s Book of Secrets\,”and Travel Channel’s “Code\nof the Wild.” In 2021\, Tim Farmer Productions produced a full-length documentary on his work that was featured on KET. Robert and\nhis wife Karen live I Meade County\, Kentucky. URL:https://aths.site/event/aths-meeting-historical-fiction-the-merlin-deposition/ LOCATION:Elizabethtown Community & Technical College\, 620 College Street Road\, Elizabethtown\, Kentucky\, 42701 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20270507T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20270507T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T191148 CREATED:20260419T223839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260419T223839Z UID:20171-1809716400-1809721800@aths.site SUMMARY:ATHS Meeting: Kentucky and the American Revolution DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sharon Williams \n\nECTC\, JSO Building\, room 112\nThe program concerns the impact the American Revolution had on Kentucky\,\nincluding Hardin County\, during and after the War.\nSpeaker bio: Sharon has deep ancestral roots in Hardin County\, which sparked\nher interest in genealogy. ATHS member and volunteer for more than 25 years.\nCurrently\, Sharon is the Regent of the local Captain Jacob Van Meter DAR\nChapter and the Governor General of the First Families of Kentucky\norganization. URL:https://aths.site/event/aths-meeting-kentucky-and-the-american-revolution/ LOCATION:Elizabethtown Community & Technical College\, 620 College Street Road\, Elizabethtown\, Kentucky\, 42701 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR