This event is very family friendly. In fact, they started things off with the Pledge of Allegiance, the singing of The Star Spangled Banner, and a prayer. Gospel singing seemed to be a big part of the festivities too. In fact, any festival goer could sing during the gospel open mic.
I wasn't at the event on Saturday, but I know local country performer Marty Brown played in the evening, and the alien/UFO influenced band Crashland also played.
I was really excited about meeting Geraldine Sutton Stith at the event. I had read her book, "Alien Legacy" about her father's confrontation in 1955 with the aliens. She was extremely polite and happy to talk about the incident, Kelly, etc. She did about a 30 minute presentation on the Kelly-Hopkins Encounter.
If you are not familiar with the Encounter, I will include some links at the bottom of the page. In a nutshell, a home was reportedly attacked by small goblin creatures. Trust me, it is a much more interesting story than that (read Geraldine's book).
Think about 1955 in VERY rural Kentucky. You had very limited communication ability..... this is a scary tale!
Luckily, the community has fun with their odd notoriety.Other than Geraldine's presentation, I didn't notice much mention of UFO, ghosts, or other mysterious critters.
We did notice some interesting military aircraft in the area though! I am sure that the conspiracy theorists felt that the government was keeping a close eye on things. The fact that a military base is close by had nothing to do with it.
The festival is in a large field in Kelly. If you are familiar with the town and the incident you know Kelly is very small. The home where the attack reportedly occurred is literally right up the road from the festival (though I hear the current home occupents aren't thrilled about people coming by to check things out). There really isn't much to see there anyway, so visiting this festival in August is the best way to celebrate Kelly.
For those of you who like to take road trips to see locations relating to ghosts, legends and the supernatural, this is a GREAT area. I have mentioned Hopkinsville here before. The grave of Edgar Cayce is in town as is the Pennyroyal Area Museum- which has interesting displays on the Kelly Encounter, Mr. Cayce, and other local oddities.Less than an hour away is Adams Tennessee, home to the legendary Bell Witch- also mentioned on this blog many times.
https://www.facebook.com/KellyLittleGreenMen
http://alienlegacy1955.geraldinesutton.com/
http://ufocasebook.com/Kelly-Hopkinsville.html
2 comments:
This looks wonderful. I love when small towns go all out with their notoriety.
Yeah, the Kelly folks did a great job. I would love to see more small towns taking advantage of their strange notoriety too (I'm talking to you Flatwoods West Virginia!).
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