Editing Central City, Kentucky (section)

==Arts and culture==

===Everly Brothers Homecoming/Labor Day Cruise-In===
On [[Labor Day]] Weekend 1988, Central City began hosting [[The Everly Brothers]] Homecoming event to raise money for a scholarship fund for [[Muhlenberg County, Kentucky|Muhlenberg County]] students.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.everlybrothers.com/html/bio.html |title=Everly Brothers Biography |access-date=September 22, 2006 |archive-date=March 15, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080315130243/http://www.everlybrothers.com/html/bio.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Homecoming became a popular annual event for fourteen years, before ending in 2002.<ref>[http://www.ky-leadernews.com/archive/21202.html Everlys Homecoming Ends]</ref>

Not to be discouraged, the citizens reformed the event as a weekend long cruise-in and car show that is still held annually on [[Labor Day]] Weekend.

===Kentucky Women's Hall of Fame, Inc.===
Sponsored by the Central City Business & Professional Women's Club, the Hall of Fame is located inside the Central City Public Library, 108 E. Broad Street and features a portrait and memorabilia gallery which includes former Governor Martha Layne Collins, Country & Western music giant Loretta Lynn, and local author, editorialist, historian, war correspondent for the Service Star and noted cultivator of roses Agnes S. Harralson. Central City Library hours are Monday-Wednesday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursday 9 a.m.-7 p.m.; Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Visit www.mcplib.org for more info; Central City BPW meets the second Tuesday of each month in the library meeting room at 6:00 pm - visitors are welcome.

===Muhlenberg County Rail Trail===
[[File:Powderly KY P&L Railcar.jpg|thumb|right|A refurbished railcar from the Paducah and Louisville Railroad along the Muhlenberg County Rail Trail]]
The Muhlenberg County [[Rail Trail]] is a paved trail following an old Paducah and Louisville railway route between Central City and [[Greenville, Kentucky|Greenville]] that is open to pedestrian and non-motorized vehicle traffic. Kentucky's most extensive rail trail conversion to date, the Muhlenberg Rail Trail opened October 20, 2000 and was named "Trail of the Month" by the Rails to Trails Conservancy in May 2004.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.railtrails.org/find/totm/archives/04-05.asp |title=Trail of the Month - Muhlenberg County Rail Trail |access-date=2006-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040623004530/http://www.railtrails.org/find/totm/archives/04-05.asp |archive-date=2004-06-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> A viewing platform and birding guide are available where the trail passes through a local wetland.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.traillink.com/TL_Active_Pages/TrailSearch/default.asp?Action=DisplayDetails&ID=1753&Trail=Muhlenberg+County+Rail-Trail&SearchQueryString=Action=StateSearch&Keyword=&State=KY&Activity=&UseOther=&AS_State=&AS_Countie |title=Rails to Trails Conservancy - Muhlenberg County Rail Trail |access-date=2006-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060708171535/http://www.traillink.com/TL_Active_Pages/TrailSearch/default.asp?Action=DisplayDetails&ID=1753&Trail=Muhlenberg+County+Rail-Trail&SearchQueryString=Action=StateSearch&Keyword=&State=KY&Activity=&UseOther=&AS_State=&AS_Countie |archive-date=2006-07-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Muhlenberg County Rails to Trails Committee has obtained an additional 3 miles of abandoned rail, possibly for a later extension into [[McLean County, Kentucky|McLean County]].<ref>[http://www.kyrailtrail.org/projects/muhlenberg.php Kentucky Rails to Trails Council - Muhlenberg County Rail Trail]</ref>