Amanda L. Higgins

historian; Kentucky enthusiast; community engager; museum director; rambler; believer in music, coffee, and dessert. She/her.

[Amanda L. Higgins @Doc_Higgs]

If this site is going down, I will use this opportunity to share the last, best thing I did while an employee @KyHistSoc: Ky Maskmaker Quilt oral history interviews as part of an @US_IMLS-supported project.

🎧: https://t.co/yOwnLv0hKT

[WKYT @WKYT]

‘Heart of the Turf’ exhibit opens at Lexington History Museum: https://t.co/M2gram4vpj

[Lexington History @LexHistory]

BIG NEWS!!!
You are cordially invited to our GRAND OPENING!
This Saturday, August 26, 2023 from 10 am to 2 pm.
Official ribbon-cutting at 10 am.
210 North Broadway, Lexington

[WUKY @wuky]

NOW: The city of Lexington is celebrating 20 years of Lexington’s smoke-free ordinance.

[Amanda L. Higgins @Doc_Higgs]

😍😍

[Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter]

How do you honor a lifelong hero of civil rights like John Lewis? By putting him on a Forever stamp.

"It's appropriate that one of our forever heroes will be recognized with a Forever stamp," said U.S. Sen. Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat from New York.

https://t.co/8m2t9fVeDk

[Charles L. Hughes @CharlesLHughes2]

A very rich and thoughtful deep dive on Isbell's new album and larger arc from historian Jefferson Cowie. https://t.co/tkqFTfk6ll

[Amanda L. Higgins @Doc_Higgs]

Really proud of this one!

[Lexington History @LexHistory]

Our latest issue of The Bluegrass Historian is now available! Read online at: https://t.co/PNl5ik2sf6

[Patrick Lewis @KyPLewis]

This exhibit is the perfect way to publicly launch the @FilsonHistory's $3.5 million African American History Initiative. Come see it, and look forward to more big things to come!

https://t.co/sk3bNOgehi

[Amanda L. Higgins @Doc_Higgs]

Beating Indiana is sweet, no matter the sport.

Go Cats.

[Kentucky Baseball @UKBaseball]

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐄𝐑!!!!!!!!

[Lex Human Rights @Lexhumanrights]

Great afternoon participating with the @LexHistory and their Lex Talks series! Panel discussion on 60 years of enforcement of Lexington’s civil rights laws!

[Amanda L. Higgins @Doc_Higgs]

@lexandrahorn Girl. I had to stop the Lasso episode to confirm. Roy/Welton mama has range.

[Amanda L. Higgins @Doc_Higgs]

Happy 231, Kentucky—you big, beautiful conundrum. I love you and I struggle with you and I’m so proud of you and so frustrated by you.

[Library of Congress @librarycongress]

Today in History: And they're off! Aristides wins 1st Kentucky Derby, 1875 #otd #tih https://t.co/io9Fuwz2Eh

[Amanda L. Higgins @Doc_Higgs]

My dear friend, @KyPLewis is the only person who I willingly listen to give a civil war talk on a May Monday.

[Amanda L. Higgins @Doc_Higgs]

@drvholden @divafeminist I wrote a paper check THIS MORNING.
☠️

[Amanda L. Higgins @Doc_Higgs]

“This town won’t get no better, will it?”

Right in the gut.

[Amanda L. Higgins @Doc_Higgs]

How very lucky we Kentuckians—and especially us Lexingtonians—are to call @silasdhouse our own.

[Silas House 📘 @silasdhouse]

My remarks from today's induction as the new Poet Laureate of Kentucky. I hope you might have nine minutes to listen in. I am so thankful to all of you for the well-wishes. I appreciate them more than I can say. Big love to all. https://t.co/sTfIGnBKjI

[Resistance Revival Chorus @ResistanceRev]

Harry Belafonte: "I wasn't an artist who'd become an activist. I was an activist who had become an artist. Ever since my mother drummed it into me, I'd felt the need to fight injustice wherever I saw it, whatever way I could. Somehow (she) had me feel it was my job, my obligation

[Governor Andy Beshear @GovAndyBeshear]

For two years, @CrystalWilki has served as Kentucky's Poet Laureate, providing inspiration, hope and joy. Now @silasdhouse will take on this role and serve as our literary ambassador to the world. Thank you to these two talented Kentuckians for representing all of our people.

[Silas House 📘 @silasdhouse]

I am honored to have been named the new poet laureate of Kentucky by Gov. Andy Beshear. As a writer who was raised working class and in trailers, as a questioning person of faith, and as the first openly gay poet laureate I will do my best to represent my place and my people.

[Lexington Herald-Leader @heraldleader]

The Rosenwald-Washington school in Cadentown is the only Rosenwald school left in Fayette County. It was built during a time when Black students were barred from attending white schools. https://t.co/YDssUAUhNn