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Floyd Collins Festival in Horse Cave, KY, April 16-18, 2010 Festival is fundraiser for the American Cave Museum Information from Sandra Wilson and Robert Stone The Floyd Collins Festival will be held on April 16, 17, and 18 as a fundraiser for the American Cave Museum, 119 East Main ST, Horse Cave, Kentucky. The event will celebrate the life and times of Floyd Collins who many consider the greatest cave explorer who ever lived. Floyd Collins' entrapment in Sand Cave in 1925 was one of the biggest media stories of the 1920s. It inspired a hit song, several movies, and numerous books. The cost of the Floyd Collins Festival is $25.00 per person. This includes admission to the American Cave Museum & Hidden River Cave, an Old Time Radio Show, a documentary film and rare film clips that will be shown at the Kentucky Repertory Theatre, a field trip to historic Collins family sites, and presentations by various historians and authors, including Roger Brucker, author of the book Trapped. As part of the event, there will be an Old Time Radio Show at 7pmCT on Saturday night, April 17, 2010, at the Kentucky Repertory Theatre, 118 East Main ST, Horse Cave, KY, featuring storytellers and music from the 1920s and earlier. The show will be hosted by John Gage as part of the Kentucky Homefront Radio Show. It will be recorded and may be aired on Louisville Public Radio. Guests will include Roger Brucker, Stan McKinney, Tom Chaney. Music will include the band Hello Stranger (fronted by Dale Jett who is A. P. Carter's grandson), the Lock and Key Barbershop Quartet, the Hart County Choral Society, and traditional musicians Hazel Johnson, Harry Bickel, Colin Grant-Adams, and David Foster. Anyone wishing to attend just the radio show and not the full event can do so for $10 per person. For tickets and more information contact the American Cave Museum at (270) 786-1466. The American Cave Museum, 119 East Main ST, Horse Cave, and Kentucky Repertory Theatre, 118 East Main Street, Horse Cave, KY. Phone (270) 786-1200. The project is sponsored by the Hart County Chamber of Commerce and the Horse Cave Rotary Club, with support from the Horse Cave Cultural Arts District Committee with a grant from the Kentucky Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.People waited anxiously by their radio in 1925 to learn of his fate. The festival offers a chance to discover the man who created a worldwide media sensation.Tickets
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