Supper Club at museum will preview upcoming Snapshots in Time column

A cookbook found in the archives of the Pennyroyal Area Museum will be the topic of both a special event at the museum and Alissa Keller’s next Snapshots in Time column for Hoptown Chronicle.

Keller and others are preparing food from a 1978 cookbook — compiled by the late Lucile Van Cleve Wallace — for The Supper Club: From the Archives, which starts at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 13, at the museum.

Guests who attend the event can sample several dishes from Wallace’s cookbook, including a unique and simple appetizer, some stew and cornbread, and jam cake. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online or by calling the museum at 270-887-4270.

Keller, executive director of the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County, will expand on Wallace’s cookbook and what it reveals about local history and customs in her Snapshots column slated to run the week of June 17 in Hoptown Chronicle. Some of the recipes date to the early 1900s and refer to old farming practices in Christian County, such has annual hog killings.

The Supper Club is a collaboration between the museum and the Human Rights Commission of Hopkinsville-Christian County designed to cultivate community connections by sharing cultures, rituals and traditions revealed in food.

More Supper Club gatherings are planned on Aug. 8, Oct. 10 and Dec. 12.