United We Stand, Divided We Fall: Kentucky and the Civil War +150

Two thousand and eleven marks the start of the national Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War. Kentucky’s Civil War Sesquicentennial commemoration will begin with a major exhibition offered at the state’s largest venue, the Kentucky State Fair. United We Stand, Divided We Fall: Kentucky and the Civil War +150 will engage visitors to the Kentucky State Fair in experiential learning in creative new ways.

The 10,000-square-foot, museum-quality exhibition will feature Union and Confederate encampments as settings for living history re-enactors; artifacts and graphic panels that introduce various aspects of Kentucky’s Civil War story; a giant floor map of the state’s Civil War sites; touch-screen computer learning stations; and a content-rich interactive exhibition exploring Civil War communications and the development of the telegraph.