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Space Kids
Written by Greg Stotelmyer   

The Challenger disaster was one of those “where were you?” moments in American history.  Children across the country were watching the space shuttle launch because schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe was on the crew.  Now, from that tragedy 14 years ago comes so much good.  Students who weren’t even alive when the Challenger broke up 73 seconds into its fateful flight are now learning because of an effort spearheaded by the families of the seven crew members.
 
This week on Kentucky’s Backroads we join sixth graders from Williamsburg Elementary as they visit the Challenger Learning Center in Hazard.  It’s one of 47 living memorials to the Challenger crew, a place which breaths life into a child’s education.
 
Our camera is there as the students conduct a space shuttle mission in which they have to find and rendezvous with a comet.  We watch as the students solve problems and carry out their mission from both mission control and the space shuttle.

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Woodson
Written by Greg Stotelmyer   
As February comes to a close so does Black History Month.  The idea began in 1926 as Negro History Week.  What you may not know is the man who came up with the idea went to college here in the Bluegrass.  This week, on Kentucky’s Backroads, we crack open the history book on the founder of what’s grown into Black History Month.
 
Venture inside Special Collections at the Berea College library and you will find several reminders of Carter Woodson’s time at the school in southern Madison County.
 
"Well early in the college's history we did not have transcripts, we had grade book ledgers,” explained Berea College Archivist Jaime Bradley as she pulled the oversized 1893 to 1899 ledger off the shelves of the library’s stacks of special collections material.  She finds Carter G. Woodson’s name, the man known as the father of black history.
 
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Doll Museum
Written by Greg Stotelmyer   
Sandwiched between other buildings from the late 1800’s is the renovated Adair Building in downtown Carlisle.  It’s now home to the Kentucy Doll and Toy Museum.
 
"Dolls speak to me pretty deeply and pretty emotionally,” said Jan Taylor, founder and curator of the public museum.
 
"This is a little town,” explained Taylor.  “A little town that could die if people in the town don't care about what's happening to it and there are quite a few who do."  The museum is Taylor’s way of caring.
 
Using the space donated by a Carlisle couple and her own personal doll collection as a starting point, Taylor has turned her hobby into a museum.  She says dolls are “a reflection, of which we are,” a reflection of our culture, society and art.
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