year's draft.

Chautauqua program back began in the late 18.

100's as a way to train Sunday school teachers and Chautauqua, New York.

But it later expanded into various swept across the nation.

Lectures from teachers, artists, theologians and more all combine to further the cause of adult education.

Today, Kentucky Humanities has a Chautauqua program of their own re-enactors, played key historical Kentucky ends and tell their stories from the first person perspective.

So come face-to-face with history and this week's Arts and culture segment, we call Tap Street.

>> My Name is Daniel Moon and it is a pleasure to meet you.

Not what I will tell you.

All sorts of fun stories about Kentucky today.

The preparation is probably more than most people would think it's about your You research first, you have to choose the character, something you have some affinity and passion for.

Hopefully then there's a couple of times you will going before the entire board.

The Humanities Council board.

>> And then we'll give you know.

So that's comprised of teachers and educators.

Historians, other performers just to give you feedback as you work.

But it's about a year start to finish from choosing to when you take it on some folks here, dangers come from the ball back.

Well, there's been a good the speed of the tunnel.

I want to play someone.

>> Who had kind of marquee value, OK?

We already had a Daniel Boone.

We had an Abraham Lincoln.

And so I hit upon the idea of Colonel Sanders but wasn't sure do I want to play the man known for frying chicken.

So read his book and I realized after I read the book, even a person as famous.

As Colonel Sanders.

There's things that people just don't know.

The average person has no idea that.

Before he started dressing up as an uncertain colonel.

He was dressing up as the Michelin man to sell tires.

The guy with the inner tubes.

Colonel Sanders did that just to draw attention to himself so he could sell a few more tires.

He is the original brand or he is the original market or what Colonel Sanders is, don't you?

He's a salesman maybe even a little bit of a showman that should top the program itself is the first person retelling of Kentucky history.

From the points of view of these these these characters.

But when I say character, of course, are all based on real people.

Real stories to tell.

We don't come in here and make things up.

It's all based in historic fact.

Historical accuracy is the foremost thing.

So we want of the stories I tell to be true.

>> The myths, I think we take some time to try to dispel those.

>> This time around these parts they liked to wear or a raccoon to now.

That is not very practical when you're trying to take or stay dry.

So you may remember that a shot for your husband to when I first started researching this, there was a book.

>> By a man and Daniel Morgan called Boone a life.

And he was writing this book about Boone.

Any reached out to all of this historical colleagues, these fancy professors from the West Coast and they all wrote him back on Daniel Bone.

I thought that was just a myth, right?

I mean, they didn't even lock is that was a real person, right?

So that speaks to the magnanimous most of his of his character and what he meant to Kentucky in our nation.

A lot of people who were born after the colonel died 1980.

Don't realize he was a real person.

>> He's basically a a cartoon character.

Someone made up like on the Donald to a lot of these kids.

They don't know.

He was a guy who or how kind of had a hard drive.

And was looking for a way to make women feel this family pays bills and these and he was also very creative individuals.

So I think that the the good thing about Chautauqua program is that it reminds people.

That they were real.

You know, and what they did to get to that point.

You know, I want you know, the Colonel Sanders loves you and I'll be back in Michigan some time.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you.

>> You can see the calendar of Chautauqua events and scheduled performances at K Y Humanities