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October 8, 2027
2nd Thursday Program
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Rachel Grimes is a composer and pianist based in Kentucky who creates music for chamber ensembles, orchestras, film, multi-media installations, and collaborative live performances. Heralded “one of American independent music’s few truly inspired technicians” by WIRE magazine, she has toured worldwide as a solo pianist, and as a collaborator with various artists, appearing many years at the influential Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN.
Her work has been performed by ensembles such as the Louisville Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, Knoxville Symphony, A Far Cry, Longleash and the Dublin Guitar Quartet. Recent releases include The Way Forth, a lushly orchestrated folk opera which retraces generations of Kentucky history through women’s voices (Temporary Residence 2019), Wove It Into Cloth (Deutsche Grammophon: Project XII), and the soundtrack to The Doctor From India (2018).
She is a member of King’s Daughters & Sons (Chemikal Underground), and was a founding member of the ground-breaking indie chamber group Rachel’s with whom she released six albums (Quarterstick/Touch and Go Records).
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Remembering Julie Morgan
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Julia Anna (Treon) Morgan, born in 1953 in Kettering, Ohio, died peacefully on April 16, 2026, in Lexington, Kentucky surrounded by her children. Julia is survived by her brother Chris; her children John, Zach, Sam, Mark, and Sara; and eight grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, John Lynn Morgan and her granddaughter Gwynyth Morgan. She was buried in a private ceremony on April 19, beside her husband John at the Hardy Bottom Cemetery in Leslie County, Kentucky.
After growing up in Kettering, Ohio, Julia obtained her bachelor’s degree and master’s in education at Georgetown College, where she and John met. John and Julia were married in 1976 and soon settled in Winchester. She taught at Odell Gross Elementary in the 1980s. She left public education to homeschool her own children from 1988 to 2009, during which time she was active in her church and local homeschool support group
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Julia devoted her life to the care of her family, and took great pride in her children and grandchildren. She was a devoted follower of Jesus, and read her Bible through every year. Her favorite time each day was the quiet morning hour on her porch with coffee and the Bible. She was employed for the later part of her life at the Bluegrass Heritage Museum in Winchester, where she welcomed local and out-of-town visitors, and cared for the legacy and history of Clark County and the old Guerrant Clinic buildings.
Julia’s friends all knew her as a sympathetic listener and a helping hand. Throughout her life she supported countless friends and family members through their time of need by cooking meals, cleaning, running errands, and serving as a birth doula and as a death doula.
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The Photos of Robert Lewis Adams
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Robert Lewis Adams was a studio photographer from Winchester, KY before entering the Marines during World War II.
The museum has obtained a collection of Adams photographs. We are in hopes that our viewers might be able to identify some of these photos of Marines taken on Emirau Island in the Pacific. His job was to take aerial photographs for bomb damage assessment. But while on the island, Louie took numerous photos of his fellow soldiers, equipment, airplanes, and island inhabitants. See the photos.
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New Document about The Bush Family Graveyard - Read Now
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