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==Arts and culture== [[File:Hillbilly Days Main Street.jpg|thumb|Crowded Hambley Boulevard during Hillbilly Days 2013]] [[Hillbilly Days]] is an annual festival held in mid-April in Pikeville, celebrating Appalachian culture. Local Shriners started the event as a fundraiser for the Shriners Children's Hospital. It has grown since its beginning in 1976 and is now the second-largest festival held in Kentucky. Artists and craftspeople showcase their talents and sell their works. Nationally renowned musicians as well as regional mountain musicians share six different stages throughout downtown Pikeville. Wannabe hillbillies from across the nation compete to come up with the wildest hillbilly outfit. Fans of "mountain music" attend from around the nation. The festival embraces the area's culture and past through company, music, and costume. The proceeds go to [[Shriners Hospitals for Children]]. The festival honors and recognizes the heritage of Appalachia, while poking fun at the stereotype associated with the region. The [[Big Sandy Heritage Center]], established in 2003, is the largest depository for artifacts relating to the history and culture of the Big Sandy Valley. In 2005, the [[Eastern Kentucky Expo Center|Appalachian Wireless Arena]], formerly known as the Eastern Kentucky Expo Center, opened in downtown Pikeville. The center, which seats 7,000, features numerous events including concerts and shows. The city is also home to the Pikeville Concert Association, which secures cultural events for the area. These events usually take place at the [[University of Pikeville]]'s Booth Auditorium. The Appalachian Center for the Arts is a 200-seat indoor professional theater in downtown Pikeville.<ref>[https://www.wymt.com/content/news/The-Appalachian-Center-for-the-Arts-opens-first-show-509076001.html The Appalachian Center for the Arts: 'The Show must go on.'] WKYT-TV April 25, 2019.</ref> The Hatfield and McCoy River Trails, on the Levisa Fork River, opened in 2014.<ref name="news">{{cite news|title=Hatfield-McCoy River Trails set to open|url=http://news-expressky.com/news/article_86a61630-a936-11e2-b8d8-0019bb2963f4.html?referer_url=/news/article_86a61630-a936-11e2-b8d8-0019bb2963f4.html |access-date=May 20, 2014|newspaper=Appalachian News-Express|date=April 20, 2014}}</ref> [[Alltech]] of [[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]] constructed a distillery, brewery, and visitors' center known as Dueling Barrels Brewery & Distillery that opened in downtown in 2018.<ref name="alltech">{{cite news|url=https://www.kentucky.com/news/business/article213983519.html|title=Pikeville's first legal distillery has moonshine, stories worth telling|date=May 19, 2014|newspaper=Lexington Herald-Leader|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> The name was inspired by the [[Hatfield–McCoy feud|Hatfield-McCoy Feud]], and the tour includes storytellers describing those events in addition to an explanation of the brewing and distilling processes. ===Library=== A [[Pack Horse Library Project|pack horse library]] was established for library services in the late 1930s and early 1940s.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13537552/|title=The Packhorse Library|date=February 17, 1938|work=The Courier-Journal|access-date=September 3, 2017|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Pikeville has a [[public library|lending library]], a branch of the Pike County Public Library.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://kdla.ky.gov/librarians/pages/librarydirectory.aspx | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190111202017/https://kdla.ky.gov/librarians/pages/librarydirectory.aspx | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 11, 2019 | title=Kentucky Public Library Directory | publisher=Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives | access-date=June 7, 2019}}</ref>
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