In 1968 RFK and congressman Carl D. Perkins made the first stop of their 2-day visit at the one room schoolhouse in Vortex for a hearing that lasted an hour. During RFKinEKY, on Sept. 9, 2004 Vortex residents reenact this hearing in which residents from Wolfe, Breathitt and Madison counties testified about how they made ends meet. They also had some questions for the senator about what the government was and should be doing.
RFK in EKY, The Robert F. Kennedy Performance Project, (2004) is a series of public conversations and art activities centered around the real-time, site-specific, intermedia performance recreating Robert Kennedy's 1968 two-day, 200 mile "poverty tour" of south-eastern Kentucky.
