PastFinders

The Southern Kentucky PastFinders, which has been around at least since the early 1980s, originally devoted itself to Civil War and other kinds of historical relic hunting. Through the years, it evolved into an organization devoted to the love of history in the region. Because of the Covid outbreak, the PastFinders ceased as an organization. The Logan County Public Library is reviving it for the purpose of continuing the tradition of exploring the reasons why “all roads lead through Logan County.”
Upcoming PastFinders topic for 2026:
January 9 – Judith Hoover on Kentucky writer Irvin S. Cobb
February 13 -- Mark Griffin - on why Jenny Lind didn't come to Russellville
March 13 – Delany Brewer on old video games
April 10 – Earl Henry, Jr., on his father, who died on the U. S. S, Indianapolis but left a legacy of bird paintings behind.
May 8 - Tim Brotherton on the Orphan Brigade
June 12 – Travis Bryant on the history of gospel music in Logan County.
July 10 – Beth Allen on the Confederate guerrilla Sue Mundy
Aug. 14 – Dermot Foley on Growing up in Ireland
Sept. 11 – Joseph Hayes on 19th-century photography
October 9 – Rick Gregory on Night Riders
Nov. 13 – Gary Violett on Newspaper Columnist Dorothy Dix
December 11 – Robert Embler on Unknown Native American sites in Kentucky and Tennessee