Category: Cultural

Somernites Cruise

Som­er­set is the offi­cial Car Cruise Cap­i­tal of Ken­tucky! Join us every fourth Sat­ur­day, April through Octo­ber for the Somer­nites Cruise Car Show. Dis­cov­er a relaxed, fam­i­­ly-ori­en­t­ed atmos­phere with great […]

The Center Theatre

The Cen­ter for Rur­al Devel­op­ment, in part­ner­ship with Lake Cum­ber­land Per­form­ing Arts (LCPA), seeks to enrich the lives of peo­ple in our region by offer­ing a selec­tion of Broad­­way-style per­for­mances, […]

Flashback Theatre Co.

This semi-pro­fes­­sion­al the­ater com­pa­ny pro­duces three to four ful­ly staged clas­sic and new the­ater pro­duc­tions each year. Their Let’s Play! the­ater edu­ca­tion series intro­duces the com­mu­ni­ty to basic the­ater con­cepts […]

Mural Trail

Som­er­set’s Mur­al Trail encour­ages both locals and vis­i­tors to dis­cov­er a diverse set of murals down­town. As you explore, you will find depic­tions of every­thing from a por­trait of a […]

The Virginia

That feel­ing you get when see­ing the cur­tains drawn or hear­ing the first notes of an open­ing song is a feel­ing that is noth­ing new at The Vir­ginia. Though a […]

Walk Somerset

A self-guid­ed inter­pre­tive walk­ing tour of down­town Som­er­set leads you through part of its rich his­to­ry. In addi­tion to show­ing such places as the once-thriv­ing com­mer­cial dis­trict or the his­toric […]

Mill Springs National Cemetery

The Bat­tle of Mill Springs in Jan­u­ary 1862 saw 4,400 Union troops turn back near­ly 5,900 Con­fed­er­ates. Union casu­al­ties amount­ed to 40 killed, 207 wound­ed, and 15 miss­ing; Con­fed­er­ate loss­es […]

Mill Springs Battlefield Museum and Visitors Center

The Bat­tle of Mill Springs was the first Union vic­to­ry in the West­ern the­ater of the Amer­i­can Civ­il War. The Bat­tle­field extends from Nan­cy, Ken­tucky (his­tor­i­cal­ly known as Logan’s Cross­roads) […]

Big South Fork Scenic Railway

Take a train ride through the scenic moun­tains of South­ern Ken­tucky. This 14-mile trip takes you down to Blue Heron Min­ing Camp, the largest inter­pre­tive col­lec­tion of his­toric coal min­ing […]