♪ ♪ >> He and south western Kentucky, a town of about 1400 people is working to preserve its history, attract visitors and locals proud to call their pocket of Kentucky home.

Our Laura Rogers takes us on a trip to the Todd County community of Guthrie for another installment of Monday's on Maine.

>> This mural started in.

>> The rainy month of May, Tennessee muralist Kim Bradford using shades of blue to tell the story of the blaze.

And downtown Guthrie.

Kentucky Guthrie wanted to pay homage to that.

The town had a venue on the Chaplain Circuit giving black musicians a place to play and perform during racial segregation.

So this was inspired, but a small.

Juke joints.

>> Or >> Soul Blues club that existed and was really pop and >> they would come to small towns like ours and play some of the best music.

In my opinion of that era.

>> Tracie Robinson as executive manager of Got 3 Main Street.

I grew up here.

So it has a special place in my heart.

In the early 2, thousands, the need was realized for historical preservation and got 3 and a way to support more retail and restaurants.

>> Vacant buildings.

There are a lot of business is leaving and moving to the edges of bigger cities.

>> They joined the Kentucky Main Street program and came up with a plan where nationally certified 2 Main Street America.

So we use the 4 point approach which is organization promotion, economic vitality.

>> And design.

The mural is the latest project to beautify Guthrie painted at Long Hurst Park, the site of summer concerts that begin later this month.

Public art is an investment in a city and town.

>> It tells them like here important come spend time here.

You're invited.

That's exactly the message.

Small businesses want us in retail.

You want people to get out of their cars.

You want him to walk and you want to see all the things that you have 2 years ago.

Todd County native Andrea Koski moved into the former long Hearst General Store to open a business of her own, naming it long Hearst and Lindell's.

>> After her late grandmother, they just kind of fell into place that this was going to be retail slash cafe.

We've kind expanded our menu, 2 different things as the ice cream, the milkshakes coffees.

We do a lot of bakery, a lot of catering.

Her efforts have paid off recently, Kentucky Main Street awarded McCaskey Entrepreneur of the Year was really honored and shocked and on.

>> We've got 3 is also the birthplace of poet and novelist Robert Penn.

Warren, his childhood home now a museum.

That's a great place, a committee that has preserve that museum for the last couple of decades of then outstanding job.

If you come to get where you need to get the Robert Penn Warren using.

>> A railway town that's home to history and heritage.

The community embracing the past.

Looking ahead to the future.

I would love to see it brought back to life to Woods.

It was 50, 60 years ago.

>> It's about pride and it's about building that community spirit with generations.

>> Where Kentucky Edition, I'm Laura Rogers.

Thank you, Laura.

The city's music in the Park concert series begins June.

29th shows are the last Saturday of the month through October.

The 12th.

>> They start at 7 at Long Hurst Park in downtown Guthrie.