Hi All, I hope you all are having a great summer. Every thing going well here. Howard Teater, Ernestine/ Charlie Hamm, Bill Russel, and Inez his wife and are doing a great job with the cemeteries. They have a couple of Mexican fellows that help them with the bad ones. You should see them, they are worse then a bunch of bush-hogs. It's been very hot here in Kentucky. I tried to get them to stop until the fall of the year. But, they wouldn't hear of it. They are making a lot of new discoveries. People I had no hopes of ever knowing about. I love see these old cemeteries coming to life. Your interest and kind donations, played a big part in getting this project started. We need to thank the Jessamine County Fiscal Court for their generous denotation also. They gave us a $1000. With this and what you folk gave will take the cemetery project will into next year. Ernestine has a GPS ( Global Positioning System) unit she carried with her around to the cemeteries. She records the Latitude and Longitude of each cemetery. I have one of these units also. I hope to have the position of all the cemeteries we know of by the fall of the year. All this information is recorded on Topo maps. The other day Ernestine came across an old Rev. War soldier gravestone. I told her to give me the location, I wanted to see it.. I took my little GPS and went right to the cemetery. Who said you can't teach an old dog new tricks? O! by the way, today is my birthday. This old dog is 66. I got to tell you this. Do you remember the book "History of Jessamine County" by Bennett H. Young, the Historical Society had re-published sometime back? If you were here at the Fest you may recall seeing Bennett Young's picture on the wall of the Historical Society. I didn't get to tell you much about him, but he was quite a fellow. He was a Confederate Soldier, who lead a raid on St, Albans, Vermont. Ask any Confederate buff and they will tell you all about him. Any way, he was born just a little west of Nicholasville, and his family goes back to the beginning of the county. After the Civil War Bennett lived in Louisville, KY., but never forgot his roots in Jessamine County. He wrote several books before his death. He wrote the "History of Blue Licks", the "Constitutions of Kentucky and their History" and the "Prehistoric Men of Kentucky". Each time Bennett Young wrote a book, he placed a copy in the Filson Club Library in Louisville. He also placed a copy in the Withers Library in Nicholasville. I had seen these books on shelves in the library many times. I knew it would be just a matter of time before someone would see them, and realized what they were, and they would be gone forever. Mr. Young had signed some of them. In one he wrote: " To the Nicholasville Library, from one whose birth in the town, has given Jessamine County his construe, --------- and abiding love." Aug 13th 1910 Bennett H. Young We got three more fileing cabinets donated to the Historical Society, by Sue ans Ray Clark. Send you family records and photos. We have lots of room now. Clyde ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.