‘Kentucky Reads’ kicks off with ceremony at Warren home in Guthrie

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Kentucky Humanities celebrated the birthday of Robert Penn Warren at the house he grew up at in Guthrie Tuesday and announced a “Kentucky Reads” initiative.

Bill Goodman of Kentucky Educational Television is the Executive Director of Kentucky Humanities and says Kentucky Reads will focus on Warren’s ‘All the Kings Men’ and they hope many will rediscover the classic novel.

The community conversations will be in Paducah, Bowling Green, Highland Heights, Louisville and Lexington and Goodman says they will include discussion focusing on themes relevant now and when the book was written.

Mona Frederick is the Director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University and noted Warren was educated in Guthrie, Clarksville and at Vanderbilt. She read a portion of Warren’s poem, “Tell Me a Story.”

Guthrie Mayor Scott Marshall emceed the ceremony that was streamed live on the Kentucky Humanities Facebook page. Attendees who had to sit in a rain shower went to the Guthrie Transportation Museum for a celebration of Warren’s birthday following the event.

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