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THE GREAT OUTHOUSE BLOWOUT Saturday, October 5, 2013 featuring The "GREAT OUTHOUSE 300 RACE" To download a "pdf" copy of the 2012 rack card, click here.
Team to Beat - four wins! ************************************
Trophy Sponsor
1st Place Prize -- $300
2nd Place Prize -- $200
3rd Place Prize -- $100 ************************************ RICK McQUERRY Race Director The Great Outhouse 300 Race
Rick McQuerry has been The Great Outhouse Blowout Race director since 2008. But perhaps is best known as the husband of Jeanne and father of Jessica and Ryan. Rick is Operations Manager at Rocky Top Log Furniture and Railing to support his habits of hiking and working with youth. He is an assistant scoutmaster with Forkland BSA troop 71 and is on the youth leadership team at Centenary United Methodist Church in Danville, KY. Rick may be reached at Rocky Top Log Furniture & Railing 1.800.332.1143 or rick@rockytoplogfurniture.com ************************************ "GOB Concert Series"
Ron Orberson - Jerry Daugherty - Greg Underwood - Ronnie Orberson -
Mark Carman
CHEYENNE
( To hear their sound and read more click below )
One of the best knownbands to ever come out of central Kentucky,
CHEYENNE and founder Ronnie Orberson have been
entertaining audiences since 1972. From Louisville to Nashville,
and points in between and beyond, playing with national acts Exile,
David Allen Coe, Bama Band, Johnny Paycheck, CHEYENNE has gained the
respect and love of their audiences all along the way.
Disbanded in 2010, CHEYENNE is coming together for a SPECIAL
CONCERT at the 2012 BLOWOUT ! ************************************ "DRIVE IT AND SHOW IT"
For information about DRIVE IT & SHOW IT, click here. To join in on the fun and
enter your own outhouse, or sign up as a vendor, ************************************
Other friends will be joining us at the Great Outhouse Blowout.
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2012 Moon and Stars Award Winner Self-taught with over 25 years of photography experience, Kirk Schlea shoots editorial, advertising and corporate work for clients such as PEPSI, CADILLAC, NIKE, ESPN, LEXINGTON CLINIC and PANINI AMERICA, Inc. Magazine and newspaper credits include SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, NEWSWEEK, TIME, SAN DIEGO MAGAZINE, KEENELAND MAGAZINE, USA TODAY, the LOS ANGELES TIMES, the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, and the LEXINGTON-HERALD, to name a few of over 200 that have published his photographs. He has photographed U.S. Presidents, CEO's, professional athletes, major sporting events, medical operations, exotic locales, and even underwater hockey. He was chosen as one of six photographers worldwide to cover the 1992 America's Cup sailing races for the OFFICIAL BOOK and the STARS & STRIPES AMERICA'S CUP BOOK. He was official photographer for the 2002 and 2006 NATIONAL CIVIL WAR RE-ENACTMENT at Perryville, Kentucky, the GREAT AMERICAN BRASS BAND FESTIVAL at Danville, XFL ProFootball league staff photographer, and has been team photographer for the SAN DIEGO PADRES Baseball Club. He's won awards from the California Exposition at Del Mar, First Interstate Bank, the San Diego Union-Tribune Newspaper, and Sea Magazine. In 2004, Schlea wond Best of Show and First Place in the professional division of the International Equine Ideal Photography Contest and he was given the Heart of Kentucky United Way "Heart & Soul" Award for their 2008 campaign. Kirk can
be reached at:
JOHNNY RANDOLPH
Johnny
Randolph was Emcee for the original 1992 "GREAT OUTHOUSE
BLOWOUT" that saw a 4 hour open air concert headlined by world renown
guitarist CHET ATKINS and other music stars at the dedication
ceremonies for Penn's Privy. Randolph coined the term "We're
making history here today" regarding the historic 1992 event.
Randolph is also recipient of the Kentucky Broadcasters Golden Mic
Award.
For the past 6 years he has been semi-retired as a program consultant
for WAKY (Oldies) and WLVK (Country) in the Louisville area. He also
does a daily three hour airshift on WAKY when in town.
WAKY has been awarded dozens of "gold records" including Behind Closed
Doors by Charlie Rich and was named national Radio Station of the Year
three times in the 1970's.
For more
information on Johnny Randolph and WAKY click
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2012 Golden Throne Award
 Pioneer Playhouse Outdoor Dinner Theatre The Eben Henson Family - Charlotte, Robby, Heather  Heather
Henson
was born and raised in Danville, Kentucky. She is a former editor
of children’s books with HarperCollinsPublishers in New York City,
as well as the author of several books for young readers, including
the novels Dream
of Night, Here’s
How I See It – Here’s How It Is and Making
the Run,
a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. Her picture books
include Angel
Coming, Grumpy
Grandpa and That
Book Woman,
a Junior Library Guild selection, winner of the Christopher Medal,
the Great Lakes Book Award, and a finalist for the Kentucky
Bluegrass Award. After many years of city living, Ms. Henson
recently returned to her home state where she resides with her
husband and three children on a family farm near Danville.
Founded in 1950 by Col. Eben C. Henson,
Pioneer
Playhouse is the oldest outdoor theatre in Kentucky and has been called
the “Granddaddy” of Kentucky Outdoor Dramas. The Playhouse was also
instrumental in pioneering the outdoor theatre movement in the state. Col. Henson
built the theatre by acquiring many of the construction materials in
unorthodox ways. He once bartered a fifth of whiskey for hand-hewn two
hundred-year-old rafter beams and hired prisoners from the local county
jail to help him lay the first foundations. For most of the
fifty years that Col. Henson and his wife Charlotte have dedicated to
running the theatre, it has also been a School of Drama and was the
first Governor’s School of the Arts in the state. After the tragic
passing of Artistic Director Holly Henson this summer, Charlotte, her
son Robby and daughter Heather courageously moved forward to achieve a
record-breaking box office season of great plays. The family is strong
and the theater is strong and the show must go on. More than 3,000
aspiring actors have strode across the stage since Henson turned an
empty field into a theatre complex. Today the unconventional,
hand-built theatre serves a pre-show dinner out of doors and a live
performance Tuesday through Saturday, every summer, come rain or shine.
(Indoors in case of rain.) A documentary
about Pioneer Playhouse aired on Kentucky Educational Television and
appeared nationwide on PBS stations in 2003, bringing floods of emails
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Admission for the Great Outhouse Blowout, including all other events,
is adults -- $5; children under 13 -- $1; toddlers/babies -- free.
For Updates Check FACEBOOK @ Link Below http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Gravel-Switch-KY/Penns-Store/374200574897?ref=ts |
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For More Information: Penn's Store257 Penn's Store Road Gravel Switch, Kentucky 40328 Phone: 859-332-7706 E-mail: pennsstore@aol.com GPS Coordinates: N37.549912; W085.028191 |
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What is the Great Outhouse
Blowout? This event started out as a dedication of Penn's Store's new outhouse in 1992. Why would anyone celebrate getting an outhouse? Because the store had never had one. The store had no running water or restroom facilities of any kind, just plenty of trees. The store still does not have running water, but it does have an outhouse. Some of us thought that was worth celebrating, especially the ladies that stay in the store all day. The dedication was held in 1992. Several of our musical
friends lent their talents to the days festivities. The
shows were headlined by Chet Atkins and Billy Edd Wheeler.
Billy Edd wrote the song "Little Brown Shack Out
Back".
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