Visual arts are celebrated with original exhibits by local artists in Maysvilleâs galleries and many local businesses. The Kentucky Gateway Museum Center, located on Sutton Street, is home to the exquisite Kathleen Savage Browning Miniature Collection.
About 100,000 years ago, the most recent of these eruptions formed the Mammoth Knolls, low hills just north of the Town of Mammoth Lakes. Mammoth Mountain, a young volcano on the rim of Long Valley Caldera, was built by numerous eruptions between 220,000 and 50,000 years ago.
Everest and the Himalayan mountains were once at the bottom of the sea but were formed when India crashed into Asia. It is pushing up into the Asian continent and Everest is now higher than then it was first climbed. Continental drift or tectonics created most mountains but some mountains have been formed by volcanic action.