 What makes for excellence in heart care? It starts with one of the most amazing teams of heart surgeons and cardiologists that I've seen assembled under one roof and the region's leading technology in a new $40 million facility. This is the nationally recognized Heart and Vascular Institute of Eastern Kentucky at Pikeville Medical Center. Pikeville will be celebrating its bicentennial in 2024 and in anticipation the Appalachian Center for the Arts is partnering with five Kentucky playwrights to create monologues of influential figures in the city's history. So we have found Kentucky playwrights, they're all Kentucky based, they're from all over the state, some from Louisville and they are coming together to each write a 20 to 30 minute monologue about five different people from Pikeville's history. The playwrights partnering with the app will spend 2023 researching and writing the monologues and local actors will be chosen to portray the characters in 2024. When you look at history, like if you read a history book, right? You see facts, you see, oh this person lived here, this person did this, they built this, started this business, but a lot of times in the history books you can't really get who they were personality wise and you can't really put a personality to them. So what theater is doing is it's helping bring life to these people that we see in our history books. For more information and updates about the Pikeville 200 program, you can visit the Appalachian Center for the Arts Facebook page. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Dean.