During February, of course, we celebrate Black History Month.

It's especially memorable at the Ashland Highlands Museum in Boyd County, thanks to two people who worked to create something that until recently had been missing.

And that part of Kentucky.

It's a celebration of community heritage.

Everyone just getting together and learning about black history and celebrating it.

This is new for me and I'm thrilled.

It's a dream of mine.

So, yeah, it's being the first in eastern Kentucky is kind of kind of crazy.

I love it.

We weren't quite sure how we would be accepted, but in a short time we realized there were people bringing us books, bringing us items, making donations.

They've always been very receptive and ask us what can we do to help?

How can we help?

But I just don't think it happens everywhere.

And when you realize that this is the only African-American museum within a hundred mile radius, I think that's pretty exceptional.

We're so excited to have all of the support from our community for what two people have done.

You know, these two people, Bernice Henry and Darryl Smith, they have done such a tremendous job and pulling together artifacts from our own community and abroad to to bring together for our individuals, our community, to be able to see, be able to experience and learn from black history.

We specified and end quote, saying it's black history, but it's really all of our history and it's all of our history with just some of the parts that have been missing.

What we've done with the research and everything that works for through the museum, we've brought some people that a lot of the people around this community and other places have never heard us.

So they've learned on every day on the road that what goes on in the museum and the characters and the people that we brought stories about.

We work very hard at researching the past so that we don't repeat some of it so that we can educate further to further educate young people and old people toward a better future.

That's a fun part of the evening.

The recognition of the people and the lives and the stories about them.

Since opening last year, the CB Knuckles Community Center and Black History Museum have received visitors from across the country.