© 2024 WMKY
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Exhibit Details Kentucky's Twisted History With Hemp

UK Special Collections

Megan Mummey, a collections management archivist at the University of Kentucky, discusses a history of hemp exhibit at the Margaret I. King Library.

Credit UK Special Collections

From keystone cash crop to banned substance surrounded in suspicion, hemp has long been a part of Kentucky’s story. 

A new exhibit at the Margaret I. King Library tells chronicles that saga through rare photos, documents, and artifacts.   

Listen

Copyright 2014 WUKY

Alan Lytle