Maysville, Kentucky

Tom and I recently visited Maysville, Kentucky on our journey back to Ohio for my cancer surgery.  We try to find one interesting or historical place to stop each time we travel back to Ohio, to give us something new to see. Maysville, Kentucky is a small city – about 9,000 people – on the …

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Pat Muse and Trish Taylor, Volunteers

One of the things Tom and I really enjoy about volunteering all over is the people we get to meet and work with.  This season we have met Pat Muse and Trish Taylor, two volunteers working as campground hosts for Cumberland Gap National Historical Park.  Pat calls them the two Pats and always introduces them …

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Cheryl and Scott Giddens, Visitors

The first week of July Tom and I had some very special visitors, Cheryl and Scott Giddens.  They were our first out-of-town visitors and they came all the way from South Carolina.  Well, actually, they live in South Carolina and they were sort of on the way from being in western Virginia for a show.  …

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Encampment at Cumberland Gap

On Saturday, June 21, we had an encampment at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park.  National Park sites don’t do reenactments, but they often do encampments where people dressed up like soldiers come and spent a night or two and talk to visitors about what life was like as a soldier. On June 21 we had …

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Second Challenge in 48 Hours

Our second challenge in 48 hours was more sudden, more immediate, and more dangerous! The Monday after we got back from Ohio, we were working in the Visitors Center.  Tom and I were both upstairs doing living history when we were notified that the Chief of Interpretation wanted one of us on the phone.  Tom …

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Roundabout Construction

When Tom and I got home from Fort Frederica in April, construction was just beginning on a roundabout at the intersection of Lewis Center Road and Worthington Road.  We live on a street just off Lewis Center Road, the next street up from Worthington, so we were expecting construction to begin.  In fact, we had …

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No Kings Protests

Today, the day before the 4th of July, seems like a very good day to talk about the June 14 No Kings Protests.  Although I am a supporter of the No Kings and 50501 movements, I was not able to be a part of the protests.  But I was praying for those who were and …

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