'Trail of Tears' was carved by a local man from a single log. 'The community is proud of its weird things,' said Executive Director Alissa Keller. We'd seen it happen before.īut the Pennyroyal Area Museum resisted the forces of normalcy and stayed true to itself. When it was remodeled and re-opened in 2020, we feared that all of the weirdness would be remodeled out of it.
We thought that no place could top Delphos, Kansas, for long-term oddness, but Hopkinsville does - and unlike Delphos, which avoids its past, Hopkinsville embraces its offbeat history in the town's Pennyroyal Area Museum. Life-size rendering of space alien or goblin it terrified locals in 1955.
