Relief Supplies and Gifts for Tornado Victims Delivered

Heritage Farmer's Market

On Thursday 12/16/21, we set out to Mayfield in Western Ky with a load of donated goods for the tornado victims. Along the way we stopped in Glasgow and dropped off a few things to Jackie Marie & Ophelia Riley for victims in the Bowling Green area. Once arriving in Mayfield, All the places, we were sent to were full of donations. So, our trip landed us in the small town Of Dresden TN was hit just as equally hard. These folks were so pleased to receive the items that were donated. Thank You to all that donated.

On 12/19/21, we made our way to Madisonville Ky to drop off all the gifts we collected through our Tornado Challenge. They as well were beyond pleased to receive the items y’all donated. Thank You London, Laurel County KY, family, friends & Jackson County, KY Thank you, Jason Frazier, Dwayne Riley, Wayne Riley, Salena Henson Riley, Courtney Walters, Patience Robinson & Wade Gause. For picking things up, loading thing, and making the trip to deliver all these items. We are continuing to gather items for at least one more trip. So please if you haven’t and still want to donate. Get your items to us as quickly as you can we will let ya know once we get our next trip scheduled. It may possibly be our last.

Courtney Walters, Patience Robinson, Ophelia Riley, Jackie Marie, Wayne Riley

2021 World Chicken Festival

LCAAHC was proud to participate in the 2021 World Chicken Festival in London, Ky. Our crew helped fry chicken in the worlds largest stainless steel skillet. Our crew fried chicken for

3 days during the festival.

What is The World Chicken Festival? It is a tribute to Colonel Harland Sanders founder of the world famous Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise which is well known around the world. His first restaurant and original one was built in southern Laurel County in the 1940's. The festival was established in 1990.

Fun Facts of Worlds Largest Stain Steel Skillet:

Size: 10Ft in diameter: 8 inches deep: 8 foot handle: weighs 700 pounds

Construction: 11 gauge hot rolled stainless steel: divided into 4 cooking sections.

Capacity; Requires 300 gallons of cooking oil. Can cook 600 quarters of chicken at one time.

Fuel: 60 gallons of natural gas ( more than an average family would use in a year).

LCAAHC

Welcome to our website. We would like to invite you to keep stopping by to see what we are doing. We have lots of out reach programs. Our most popular is our Gardening. The LCAAHC will do many things through out the year. We will have food give a ways, will will hold classes to teach food preservation. We hope to have a history class for the African American youth in our community to teach them more about there heritage.

We will have the Museum open for you to come by and check out all our artifacts about the history of African Americans in Laurel County, we also have artifact from Africa and other places. Please Call Wayne At (606)224-8111 to set up an appointment. Due to the Covid-19 we can only be open by appointment.

Stay tuned for more Events and Classes. We will announce them here on the Website and our Facebook pages. The Heritage Farmers' Market, and The Laurel County African American Heritage Center Inc.