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You will enjoy Kentucky Writers'
Day at Penn's Store and we look forward to your being part of it.
Bring you original writings/songs and let us hear what you have
created.
 Dr. H.
R. Stoneback and the
Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society from New York will be joining us again
this year. Dr. Stoneback is a Distinguished Professor of
English at State University of New York at New Paltz. He is the
recipient of the state of New York 2004 Distinguished Writer Award and
author of eight books.
Dr. H.R. Stoneback
KY Writer's Day Show - performances by
Dawn Lane Osborn, and other
Kentucky Writers' Day Musicians. Dawn is a poet, song writer, and
musician and performs professionally.
Dawn Lane Osborn
Emcees
for Kentucky Writers Day
Sunday, APRIL 19: JAMES POPE (See Bio Below)
Friday Night, APRIL 24: JEREMY " Breakfast Boy" BOWMAN
Saturday, APRIL 25: HERSHEL MCKINLEY (See Bio Below)
Saturday Night, APRIL 25: BOB SYMON
Sunday, APRIL 26: LINDA PRATHER (See Bio Below)
List of Other Writers and Performers
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Ann Johnson Fogle is a native of
Marion County, Kentucky. She was born in Riley and raised in
Lebanon. She now resides in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ruth Ann is a
Conference lecturer, motivational speaker, Dramatist, Christian
Comedian and a new author. She writes for the Lebanon Enterprises'
Faith Page, lectures and performs for the Marion County School
System. She travels throughout the United States, performing her
solo performances inspiring, lifting spirits with her comedy and
teaching Black History in an unforgettable manner. She recently
performed for the Marion County Annual Women of Color Black History
Event, with a play she wrote, "No Slaves at the Table." Her
venues consist of Churches, schools, theatres, AARP,
Retirement/Nursing Homes, hospitals and prisons. Where ever she
goes smiles and an uplifted heart follows. She states it all
started with the book, about an old Kentucky woman who says she is
115 years old, who is stubborn, outspoken, sanctified and has lived
long enough to "know how it was, now she
is telling it like it is." The book entitled "I
Ain't Changing My Clothes", other works
include inspirational CD's,"Seven Past Midnight", "Just Talking
About Jesus", "Can You Be A Sister If it's not your Night in the
Tent?" and last but not least the DVD, "The Storm Is Coming" filmed
in Lebanon, Riley and Gravel Switch, KY. To reach her, view her
web site
http://www.ruthannfogle.com. |
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A Warren
County, Kentucky native, reared in Louisville, AMY BECKWITH
currently resides in Daytona Beach, Florida and is an exhibited
folk artist (several public and private gallery exhibits).
She was highly influenced through the poetry and music of her
father, Donnie Charles Watson and the artistic talents of her
mother, Florence Lynne May Sikora. Beckwith is a DAR member,
mother of 3, historic preservationist and related to half of the
Forkland area (several times over) including the owners of Historic
Penn's Store.
For more
about Amy and her father,
click here.
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RICHARD
MOORE - Artisan, Craftsman, Musician / Songwriter presently
resides in Ashville, North Carolina. His grandfather gets the
credit for teaching him to play guitar and Johnny Cash for the
inspiration to start writing songs at the age of fifteen. Being
reared in a military family, he gathered influences from all over
the country; mainly the southeast. Moore was introduced to Penn's
Store when he accompanied buddy and Hall of Fame inductee Billy Edd
Wheeler at the 2007 "GREAT OUTHOUSE BLOWOUT". |
 The
Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society will be part of the events,
in conjunction with their conference at St. Catherine College in
Springfield. |
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Tony Cooper is a resident of Casey County, Kentucky. He works as a para-professional in the county school system. He enjoys writing
songs and playing music any time he can. While he likes many types
and genres of music, his favorites are the old time tearjerkers. |
Gregg Neikirk is a professor of English at
Westfield State College (Massachusetts) where he teaches writing
and literature, including seminars in Songwriting for the English
and Music departments. A Danville native and Centre graduate with
a Ph.D from the University of Kentucky, he has written songs since
his school days in Nashville during the 1970's. He is the president
of the Elizabeth Madox Roberts literary society, and is
co-directing this year's scholarly conference and the society's
Kentucky Writer's Day events at Harrodsburg, Penn's Store, and
Springfield. Both his twin sons, Adam and Lee, are guitar majors at
Westfield State. Neikirk is married to Nancy White Neikirk, also a
Danville native. |
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 Sandy Gladfelter is a
widely publish author with credits ranging from International
publications to local and regional magazines and newspapers. Her
International credits are included in The International
Dictionary of University Histories, published in 1989 by
Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers of Chicago, IL & London, England and
A visit to the Yucatan, published by Evangelical Times of
London, England in 1999.
She was a feature writer from
1987 � 91 for Bluegrass Magazine. Additionally, she wrote a
monthly column, as well as, feature and contributing articles in
the Danville Advocate Messenger, the Fitchburg Sentinel &
Enterprise, the Garrard County News and the Garrard
County Historical Society, and Kentucky Families Today.
Numerous feature articles appeared in Back Home in Kentucky.
She earned an �Award of Merit Certificate, Honorable Mention�, for
her poem �Shells� by World of Poetry in Sacramento, CA.
Sandy writes full-time and lives
with her husband and two cats on a private lake in central
Kentucky. |
Dr. Ray Hornback, native Kentuckian,
grew up in Louisville. He earned degrees from
both the University of Kentucky and Indiana University.
He served as Vice President at Morehead State University for 15
years) and spent 15 years at the University of Kentucky as Vice
President for University Relations. He has
served as President of United Way of the Bluegrass and as President
of the United Way of Kentucky. More recently, he served
three terms as Vice Chair of the Board of the American Chestnut
Foundation and is now on the board of
the Kentucky Historical Society Foundation as well as on the board
of the Kentucky State Parks Foundation. Over
the years, he has served as an officer and on the boards of 50 or
so organizations, locally, statewide and on the national scene.
He has authored pieces in several books and
national publications.
He has written a weekly column
for Farmers National Bank in Lebanon for some 14 plus years when
Gene Spragens asked him to do something
unique for his fine bank. Together they came up with the idea to
do a human interest vignette each week about people, places and
things, always with a light and friendly approach. These have been
very well received over the years and Dr. Hornback is still doing
this under the leadership of Gene's son George. |
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Maurice Manning's third book of poetry,
Bucolics, has just been released in paperback.
His first book, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions, was
selected for the 2000 Yale Series of Younger Poets. Manning is
from Kentucky, where he lives part of the year. He teaches at
Indiana University and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren
Wilson College. |
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 Beth Dotson Brown is an award
winning freelance writer and editor who lives in Lancaster, KY. She
is the author of Yes! I Am Catholic and contributor to A
Cup of Comfort for Breast Cancer Survivors. Besides writing for
a number of magazines and newspapers, Beth also writes for
nonprofit organizations. Her short stories have been published in
Quality Women�s Fiction, Kudzu, St. Anthony Messenger,
Branchwood Journal and aired on the BBC World Service
Short Story Programme. Beth�s compilation of three one-act plays
called Mothers, Daughters and the Space in Between,
available from
www.heartlandplays.com, all originated as short stories.
In addition, she enjoys teaching young writers and leading
workshops. You can reach her at
www.bethdotsonbrown.net. |
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Andy Rice, a native of Pulaski County, Kentucky currently
resides in Boyle County with his wife Jane. Andy's musical
inspiration comes from his uncle, who would
bring his guitar to family gatherings and perform for the family.
Andy's mother Geneva Rice was also an inspiration as she also
played the guitar and sang. Andy has written two songs,
"Which Way to Pray" and "Slipped and Fell in Love". Andy also
played guitar and sang solo in a country band named "Andy and the
Dandy's" in the early 1980s. In the '80s and '90s he played
with "The Kings Mt. Bluegrass Boys." |
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Growing up on Sugar Hill Farm,
Vanessa Baker Ruda enjoyed a unique and fascinating childhood
that provides the setting for many entertaining stories.
These experiences have now become The Adventures of Johnathon
Peter, her latest book. Vanessa is a graduate of the
University of Kentucky with a degree in Agriculture, as well as one
in Vocational Education. She is a teacher at the Danville
Christian Academy, a tutor, and assists her husband in the family
business, Ruda Family Chiropractic.
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 Christina
Lovin is the author of What We Burned for Warmth and
Little Fires. A two-time Pushcart nominee, her writing has
appeared in Harvard Summer Review, Triplopia, Diner, Hunger
Mountain, Poet Lore, The Lyric, and many other journals and
anthologies. The Southern Women Writers' Conference awarded Lovin
the 2007 Emerging Poet Award. Her poetry has been named finalist
for the 2006, 2007, and 2008 Rita Dove Poetry Award and the 7th
Juried Reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago. She has received
the Judson Jerome Scholarship from Antioch Writers� Workshop, the
Baron Wormser Scholarship for the Stone Coast Writers' Conference,
and, most recently, was awarded the 2008 AWP WC&C Poetry
Scholarship. Lovin has served as Writer-in-Residence at Devil's
Tower National Monument and the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in
Central Oregon. She has been a resident fellow at Virginia Center
for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and Footpaths House
in the Azores. Her work has been generously supported on several
occasions with grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the
Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Kentucky Arts Council,
including the 2007 Al Smith Fellowship. |
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 Born and raised on a small farm
near Gracey, Kentucky, Lacy Thomas learned to read at age 3
and became a committed wordsmith, as well as infatuated with the
stars. He read enough to design and launch a solid fuel rocket at
age 13 (which roared out of sight and was never retrieved.)
Voracious is a good descriptor of his appetite for the written
word. While other students had a library index card, Lacy had his
own index card file box. He joined the Navy hoping to become an
astronaut, but flunked out of Annapolis; he did time as a radar man
and ship's photographer. Upon discharge he enrolled at the
University of Kentucky and worked in college as a DJ, taxi driver,
graphic artist (at WKYT-TV) and staff photographer at the Lexington
Herald Leader. He spent his time off hiking and taking pictures in
the Red River Gorge area.
He graduated with a degree in
accounting and spent most of his life in private industry. He also
found enough spare time to become a fair woodsman and pretty good
amateur astronomer. Lacy is the KY (at-large) contact for The
Sidewalk Astronomers, an international organization dedicated to
sharing astronomy with the public.
(www.sidewalkastronomers.us/)
"GET OUT, LOOK UP, MARVEL!"
He has spent nearly all of his
professional career out of Kentucky but returned in 2002 and
hopefully, will never leave. He loves this beautiful state and the
many outdoor recreational opportunities it affords. Lacy and his
wife Brenda are members of a U S Forest Service volunteer group
(the Red River Gorge Trail Crew) that meets monthly in the gorge to
maintain the 50+ miles of trails.
(www.gorgecrew.com).
It is a very well-read group and the discussions around the
evening camp fire are always most interesting.
Though Lacy is currently employed
by the state, he strives to find time to pursue astronomy, hiking,
cooking, reading/listening to books and playing with wood. He
makes unique bluebird houses, faerie houses, gnome homes and other
strange objects from branches, pods, shells and other objects
"discarded" by Mother nature. Occasionally he finds time to pen
his observations of people and nature.
 Chris
Hamilton is director of Lebanon & Marion County Tourism. He
is the former sports editor, former news editor and former editor
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A veteran of both the U.S. military and Corporate America, Blain
Staat escaped from Orlando, Florida in 2005 on a quest to find
a better quality of life for his family. He now happily
resides in Liberty, Kentucky, where he owns and operates Linear
Wave Publishing and directs the day-to-day operations of the
Liberty-Casey County Chamber of Commerce.
Blaine has authored three books to date: Clash
of the Figments, a silly and obnoxious satire of hard-boiled
detective mysteries; Finding Liberty, a retrospective
collection of stories and essays; and What So Proudly We Hail,
a disturbing speculative novel about life in a nightmarish American
future.
The column He Said, She Said, written by
Blaine and his lovely wife Catherine, can be seen monthly in the
Casey County News.
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Joberta
Wells is a self-proclaimed writing imposter. After graduation
from college (UK, of course), she became a blood banker and worked
in hospitals in Lexington, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and then spent
21 years at Central Kentucky Blood Center in Lexington. In 1994
she returned to Casey County, her home, and worked two more years
in hospitals in Somerset and Liberty. She retired at a tender age
and pursued a part-time career in house cleaning, banking, blood
banking consulting, marketing, and trying not to get on any more
boards.
Joberta was a technical writer
during her career as a blood banker but it was never for fun. In
1998 Donna Carman, the new editor of The Casey County News
in Liberty, asked her to write a monthly opinion column called
It�s A Hoot. Over the subsequent years the column has appeared
more frequently than monthly and she has done other writing for the
paper. All of her writing has been for fun and she says, �I don�t
do murder, rape and pillaging, beauty pageants, or turkey- and
deer-shooting stories. Let the pros do those.�
Joberta lives on a farm in
Yosemite where she feeds a flock of turkeys, a herd of deer, a
passel of 'possums, a community of 'coons, a family of foxes, a
quartet of cattle, and a cat or two.
"God,
keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth." |
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Betty Pace has taught school, served as
a guidance counselor and Director of Federal Programs in Kentucky
and Ohio public and private schools. She was Director of a Title
One Program that won national acclaim toward excellence in
education for the state and U.S. Department of Education. Betty is
the author of Chris Gets Ear Tubes, Donald�s Dump Truck,
I Miss My Dad, Donna�s Christmas Birthday, Abraham
Lincoln and Clippety-Clop, Clippety-Clop. She has
published more than a hundred articles and poems and works as a
full time writer and makes school visits. |
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Linda S. Prather was born in
Kentucky and is a resident
of Lexington. Her greatest desire as a writer is to write
characters that readers love, hate, laugh and cry with. She
loves learning -- period. She received an associate degree in
metaphysics in 1992 and has become a Certified Clinical
Hypnotherapist. Her first novel, The Gifts,
incorporated metaphysics into fiction.
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.jpg) Jon
Nesbitt, a Pennsylvania native, has had one desire in life --
to be a successful musician and songwriter. At the age of 14
he started playing guitar and writing songs. He soon realized that
the more instruments he could play, the easier it would be to get
into a band.
At the age of
17 he learned to play drums and bass guitar. The piano soon
followed. Jon was being influenced by musicians such as John
Lennon, Bob Dylan and the guitar playing of Jimi Hendrex. He loved
the showmanship of Kiss. The list goes on and on.
Jon realized
that a true musician should be open to different styles of music
from rock and blues to folk and country. This line of thought
has helped him develop his own style. Over the years he has
worked with many of Central Kentucky's top country and rock variety
bands. He has also preformed as a solo act.
Jon doesn't
want to be classified as a "one style writer". He wants to be
known as a true musician, songwriter and performer. With his
love for music and a God given talent,
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 Originally
from the Lakes Region of southwestern Maine,
Terry Swett and his
wife Sandy moved to Stanford, Kentucky in the summer of 2008.
In his young adult years, he traveled extensively around the United
States, painting signs and sometimes singing for his supper.
Those days inspired his first real song writing. He refers to
his early originals as a "Travelogue of Folkish Ditties."
Thirty years later Terry still makes signs for a living and still
writes. His songs may be about bartenders, pool shootin',
home towns, love or God.
Classic Harmonies
is a family group performing Christian, folk and country music. Our
Christian music is comprised of beautiful songs ranging from gospel
to old hymns to contemporary. Our folk and country numbers include
hits from the 1960's through the 1980's. We strive to remind our
listeners of the classic sounds from that era that we want to keep
alive.
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One of the members of The Blue
Age is Paul "Apaullo" Childers, 14, who took up guitar at an
early age; his vocal styling is heavily influenced by John Mayer.
Childers got his start in public performing at events such as the
Heart of Kentucky Arts Festival as a solo act. He opened for
American Idol finalist Josh Gracin in 2008. Vaughn Alexander
Hamilton, 17, plays acoustic/electric guitar, keyboards and tenor
sax but mainly lays down the bass line for The Blue Age. Formerly
with the rock band The Naked Horsemen, Hamilton's first loves are
blues and jazz. His influences are The Jimmy Hendrix Experience and
any significant bass players over the past two centuries. Jordan
"Purple" Hayes, 19, was drawn to percussion in high school then
joined The Blue Age in 2009. The Blue Age has opened for 32 Below
and New Deal in 2009. Christopher Hamilton rips the alto sax on
several of the group's songs, but will not be available during the
Kentucky Writers Day Celebration Kickoff.
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 As a Kentucky writer, and poet,
we often survey the geographical locations of our lives. This
journey is composed of physical and spiritual beginnings for all of
us. As a writer and elementary teacher, James Pope has been
part of this landscape as a poet, educator, journalist, and editor.
Pope, who has traveled many times
to West Africa, is the author of two chap books: For the Love of
Pure Water and Alone in a Dark House. Alone in a Dark House is his
latest work that he wrote with his daughter, Claire Pope, who
helped illustrate the book. Christina Lovin, a distinguished
Kentucky poet wrote about Pope's work, "These are poems of
experience and memory in the mature voice of someone who
understands the cyclical nature of existence and has found an
acceptance of life with no cruel illusions."
"The musty space," "the muted
darkness," "the memory of distant seasons," and "the distant
feeling of something giving way" are all lines from Pope's poems
that often explain the physical, geographical, and religious
locations of his work.
Pope, who presently teaches 4th grade at Crab
Orchard Elementary School, is the father of Claire Pope, an art
history professor at Kentucky's Lindsey Wilson College and Justin
James Pope, who is completing his PhD in Colonial History at George
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Tony Sexton has a new book called Scraps coming out in
June 2009.
A native of Mercer County, Kentucky, Tony
Sexton lives on a small farm and is retired from The Kentucky
Utilities Company after 31 years of service. He graduated from the
University of Kentucky with a degree in creative writing and a
minor in psychology. When not gardening, his time is spent
writing. When asked about his poetry, his reply is, "I want
to write in such a way that if I drop a copy of one of my poems on
Main Street and someone comes along and picks it up, they could
read and understand it. Where Walt Whitman may have failed, I want
to succeed as being a poet for the common man."
His writing credits include:
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Short stories and poetry published in
nationally distributed publications, including Good Old Days
Magazine
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In depth interviews with Kentucky Authors,
published in The Journal for Kentucky Studies from the
Northern Kentucky University
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Four years as a columnist for The
Danville Advocate Messenger [The columns were nostalgic,
humor or opinion.]
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Four years as a contributing columnist for
The Mercer Magazine, a monthly publication of The
Harrodsburg Herald. He was instrumental in helping create
this magazine and wrote various columns including a humor column,
a column relating to country stores and others about local
history.
Sexton also developed and directed a festival for writers, which
was held in Harrodsburg. The festival was called "Celebrate
Kentucky Writers" and brought together both seasoned and aspiring
writers for a 3-day workshop. Three of those festivals had
anthologies published with writing of all the participants,
including the seasoned writers. One of his poems was included in
the opening day publication for the Carnegie Center for Literacy
and Learning in Lexington, Kentucky. Only 13 writers from the
state were included in this publication.
He has conducted many writing workshops through the years and
presently leads two for the Mercer County Public Library. He has
also been editor and contributor to several newsletters over the
years and is presently developing one for local writers. He has
just completed his first novel in a series of novels about a
private investigator in Lexington, Kentucky. The title for the book
is Blood in the Bluegrass. He has had poetry published in
JAR, a publication of the honors program for the University
of Kentucky.
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Hershel McKinley is
probably best known for his many
years on Danville radio stations WKLO, WHIR, and WMGE-FM, as News
Director, public affairs broadcaster and morning air personality.
He is also one of the Main Stage Emcees for the Great American
Brass Band Festival held each June in Danville. In what Hershel
describes as �long ago and far away� he wrote, produced, directed
and appeared in many films for the State of Kentucky in The
Department of Public Information. Hershel has worked in the
Lexington and northern Ohio radio and television markets and is a
graduate of Kent State University.
Born in Southern Kentucky,
Hershel called Danville home for many years, but now lives on a
farm in northern Mercer County with his wife Shirley, who is a
Labor/Delivery RN at Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center in
Danville. Hershel and Shirley have two married children, Jason and
Mary Beth McKinley, Rachel and Preston Correll and two
grandchildren, Gus and Annie Correll.
Calling himself a lifelong
fledgling novice in creative writing Hershel is a member of
Speaking Out and Nomadic Ink writing groups in Mercer County.
Hershel currently does freelance
voice work and script writing. He has been heard throughout the
South in radio and television commercials, industrial video
voiceovers, audio book readings, and political radio
advertisements. For the last few years he has also been the sound
engineer for the Forkland Festival Bean Supper Play.
He and Shirley, and their
children, have had the opportunity to travel or work in many parts
of the world including East Africa, Central America, England, the
Caribbean, and India.
Photography is a long time hobby
of Hershel�s and one of his photos was recently used in an
advertisement on the back cover of a national equine magazine. Brad Lanham, born and
raised in Gravel Switch Kentucky, is founder and president of the
Kentucky Fellowship of Musicians whose mission is "Bringing
Musicians Together." "There are a lot of musicians around, but they
don't seem to know each other or their shared love for music.
Giving those folks an avenue to meet and arena to play in is our
goal."
Raised on Country & Bluegrass,
rebelled with Rock, redeemed by Contemporary Christian Rock, and in
the middle of Blues & Jazz, Lanham claims to be a lover of all
genera of music. "If it's music, I want to be in the middle of it."
Jim Brown is a musician, storyteller, carpenter, gardener
and all-around Renaissance man from Marion County who now lives in
Garrard County. He enjoys telling stories about the big holler
where he grew up. Although he enjoys a wide variety of music, he's
especially fond of Bluegrass music and formerly played banjo with a
local band.
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Brenda L. Murphy, a lifetime Kentucky resident loves the
art of expression. Whether it is through lyrics of a song, the
adventurous insight on the lives of characters in short stories, or
the ever moving words of inspiration found in a breath taking poem;
BL has found that writing is her form of expressing the road that
we call life.
At only 26 years of age, BL has
been compiling a portfolio filled with moving pieces that come
straight from her heart to paper. Some of these writings include
but are not limited to; "From Cutter to Cutting Edge" (a work of
inspirational writings to help families and victims of the ever
growing addiction of "cutting"), "Life's little Picnic" (a book of
poems written by BL which is set to be released through independent
publishing in the near future.), and the poem,"My Kentucky", a
piece that illustrates the greatness of the state through the use
of many of its trademarks and symbols. Recently BL Murphy received
a letter from Kentucky State Gov. Steven L. Beshear, expressing his
appreciation and liking for "My Kentucky." The governor said, "Thank
you for sending me a copy of your poem, 'My Kentucky'. It is a
charming piece with colorful imagery and creative use of the state
symbols. I appreciate your sharing this with me, and send best
wishes for your continued success."
BL
aspires to leave her mark as a nationwide writer/speaker and
aspires to motivate young people from all around the state of
Kentucky, and the world to find their own voice and to allow
writing and knowledge to be the weapon that fuels the up and coming
generations.
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Jack Forman, 51, lives with his wife Patricia in Lee County,
Kentucky, where they are working to establish a quiet Homestead.
This desire for a simpler life stems from years of working
maintenance in various factories across Central and Eastern
Kentucky most of his adult life. An aspiring writer and organic
farmer, Jacks inspirations for writing stem from his families roots
in farm life in Kentucky and memories of his Grandparents'
homestead during his childhood. In addition, events of the
homestead he and Patricia are building, as well as section hikes on
the Appalachian Trail, combine to create what he hopes are writings
of a quiet desire for peace and possibility.
The Shady Creek Band has
been together since late January, 2009. They have played many
nursing homes and some Senior Citizens Centers, just so the band can make
the Senior Citizens' day go by in a nicer way. Everywhere they go
people like their hard-driven bluegrass music. The band members are
Dan Malone from Lebanon Kentucky, Phillip Crowe from Perryville,
Kentucky, Mark Lanham from Gravel switch Kentucky, and Donnie Crowe
from Maxey Valley, just outside of Hustonville, Kentucky.
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Joseph Ross
Steve Shepperson
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Bob Symon was born in New
Orleans and the family moved to Connecticut and then Los Angeles
before settling in Houston. He attended the University of Texas at
Austin and received a degree in Journalism. He then became a
Financial Consultant with Merrill Lynch in Houston. He returned to
school to the Florida State University where he earned a degree in
Meteorology with a minor in Physics. For the past 20 years, he has
been a television meteorologist with the past 11 being in
Louisville. While in Louisville, Bob earned a Masters degree in
History from the University of Louisville, where his work was
recognized with the Deans Citation for Academic Excellence.
Recently, Bob had the cover feature article published in the Ohio
Valley History academic journal. In December, Bob's employer's
stock dropped about 95% and that was a bad time for a contract to
be expiring. He is now unemployed and would be glad to entertain
any job offers. In his new found free time, Bob has been making
public speaking engagements and doing volunteer work. He and his
wife Cassie enjoy sculling on the Ohio River, taking walks,
studying the bible and finding odd places to visit. This week is
was their fourth anniversary. For their honeymoon, Bob took his
wife by train to Glacier National Park in Montana where she was
afraid of Grizzly Bears and then to Mt. St. Helens, where she was
afraid of a volcanic eruption. His mother says it sounded like one
of Bob's Boy Scout Camping Trips instead of a honeymoon. Cassie
has since changed her mind and vows to return to the mountains of
Montana.
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View the 2008 Kentucky
Writers Day Performers list here.
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Kentucky Writers Day Events Here
View the 2007 Kentucky
Writers Day Performers list here.
For more information contact Jeanne Penn Lane at
Penn's
Store (859) 332-7706 or (859) 332-7715, or
e-mail
PennsStore@aol.com.
It is best to call ahead to check times and
cancellations.
Penn's Store
257 Penn's Store Road
Gravel Switch, Kentucky 40328
859-332-7715 or 859-332-7706
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dear friend Terry Ward who passed away on August 1, 2008. He was a
very Special Friend to Dawn, Dava and Jeanne, and to Penn's Store.
Terry emceed the very first Kentucky Writers Day Celebration and
continued every year afterwards. He wrote the lovely poem about Dava
just after her passing that he read each year at the beginning of the
Kentucky Writers� Day Celebration weekend. Terry touched the lives of
so many. He was a journalist, historian, poet, author, scholar,
teacher and friend. We cherish all the memories, smiles, and laughs
and were blessed by having shared time with him on this earth.