2007 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AWARD
Presented to "Friends of KET"
Narrative from the Award Presentation
October 3, 2007
Our honorees embraced a project titled "Treasure Tour" devised to promote a KET program featuring eleven Kentucky sites deemed "treasures" by Dr. Thomas D. Clark, Kentucky's "Historian for Life." Dr. Clark prepared this list at the young age of 101.
Kentucky Life, a KET weekly magazine program that explores the state, produced a special program to highlight the eleven sites that Dr. Clark thought every Kentuckian should visit.
The statewide Friends Board considered this project a "piece of angelfood cake" and they hosted preview events at each of the eleven sites. The Treasure sites were as varied as the people of Kentucky: an Abbey where Trappist monks live and work; Mammorth Cave, the most extensive cave system on earth; the Speed Museum of Louisville --- just to name a few.
These volunteers partnered with KET staff and the Kentucky Historical Society to organize and host these events to raise the awareness of this wonderful program and KET throughout the state.
The KET Friends Board is honored tonight as a true "Kentucky Treasure."
Presented to "Friends of KET"
Narrative from the Award Presentation
October 3, 2007
Our honorees embraced a project titled "Treasure Tour" devised to promote a KET program featuring eleven Kentucky sites deemed "treasures" by Dr. Thomas D. Clark, Kentucky's "Historian for Life." Dr. Clark prepared this list at the young age of 101.
Kentucky Life, a KET weekly magazine program that explores the state, produced a special program to highlight the eleven sites that Dr. Clark thought every Kentuckian should visit.
The statewide Friends Board considered this project a "piece of angelfood cake" and they hosted preview events at each of the eleven sites. The Treasure sites were as varied as the people of Kentucky: an Abbey where Trappist monks live and work; Mammorth Cave, the most extensive cave system on earth; the Speed Museum of Louisville --- just to name a few.
These volunteers partnered with KET staff and the Kentucky Historical Society to organize and host these events to raise the awareness of this wonderful program and KET throughout the state.
The KET Friends Board is honored tonight as a true "Kentucky Treasure."