Battle of Perryville Commemoration named a Top 20 Event

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Danville-Boyle County Economic Development Partnership
Danville-Boyle County Convention and Visitors Bureau
Main Street Perryville

July 24, 2013

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Kasey Hill
Office: (859) 236-2361 Mobile: (859) 402-4758
Email: kasey@betterindanville.com

Battle of Perryville Commemoration
named a Top 20 Event in the U.S.
PERRYVILLE, Ky. - The Battle of Perryville Commemoration re-enactment and festival has been named a Top 20 Event in the United States by the Southeast Tourism Society for October 2013.
The Southeast Tourism Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and developing tourism throughout the Southeast region of the U.S.
Focusing on preservation and education, the Perryville commemoration features reenactments of Civil War battles, historical tours, living history encampments, ghost walks, a parade, street dancing, open fire cooking, picnics, a craft fair and flea market.
"The Main Street Perryville Commemoration Committee was honored to learn that we were voted one of the Top 20 Events to attend in 2013 by the Southeast Tourism Society," said Vicki Goode, executive director of Main Street Perryville. "The downtown re-enactment has continued to attract more visitors to our festival each year. Last year, the addition of "A Taste Of 1862" dinner and dance was hugely successful, and it will become an annual feature of the event. We look forward to another great year."
Events and festivals across the Southeast region of the U.S. compete to receive the Top 20 Events designation. Through a nomination process, Southeast Tourism Society chooses the Top 20 events in the Southeast for each month of the year and publishes the list of winners quarterly. The Top 20 Events publication is sent to more than 1,600 newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV stations, AAA publications and more.
According to the Southeast Tourism Society website, to be considered for the Top 20 designation, independent judges evaluate nominations to identify 20 events across the region for each month of the year. Selection as a Top 20 Event is a validation of an event's quality and a distinction that events use effectively in their ongoing marketing and publicity.
The event was nominated for the designation by the Danville-Boyle County Convention and Visitors Bureau.
"This is a great honor for Perryville to receive this designation from one of the premier tourism organizations in the Southeast," said Jennifer Kirchner, executive director of the Convention and Visitors Bureau. "The battlefield and Merchants Row are unique attractions in our county, and it's important to highlight our piece of U.S. history. This annual celebration allows us to welcome visitors from all over the country."
This year's commemoration will be Oct. 5-6.

Joni House, preservation coordinator for the Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site, said this year's re-enactment will be smaller than last year's sesquicentennial celebration.
"This year's commemoration will focus on the life of the soldier. Civil War soldiers were only in combat about five days a year. The rest of the time they spent drilling and living in camp with their comrades," House said. "There will be numerous educational programs demonstrating what the typical soldier's day consisted of during the Civil War."
House said there will also be speakers discussing various topics related to the war.
"'The Hard Hand of War' is the new museum exhibit, which illustrates the aftermath of the battle," House said. "There are numerous rare artifacts that are on exhibit until November including the personal possessions of Dr. Robert McMeens, who was the surgeon of the 3rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. McMeens literally worked himself to death tending to the wounded - he died at Perryville on Oct. 30, 1862."
For more information on the Battle of Perryville commemoration, visit r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001IxrQ49OsyV1Edjw6yila2-mYVq...Ef9I= and r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001IxrQ49OsyV0u8WKq_-luNbPVVX...TFQA=.
To see the festival listing, visit r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001IxrQ49OsyV0lM83lbegUSCy2zq...Ps-M= .
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