My wife's a real estate agent with several listings scattered around Brown Co, and when she takes me along on her business trips,she has to listen to me rattle tidbits of history. Unlike you,she doesn't have to be polite to shut me up!. So,the saddest trip was 4-5-6 weeks ago across White Oak Valley Rd,and then Shaffer RD, and finally Hamer Rd to west of Sardenia. No crops planted . Bobby Conn said there was a statue of Larry Mullen that way,but we missed it. That trip,near constant rains had prevented crop planting. Every field was sprayed with herbicide to plant,but none planted. We've made a couple to 'Old Fairgrounds Street" in n Russellville,where she has listed a couple. Must be a story behind 'Old Fairgrounds" . I did talk of Cornelius Washburn,the hunter-scout ,whose land we crossed. And we went to Ripley,and she drove me past John Parker's house,on the n w riverbank.Rev Rankin's house,above,and behind the town,has long been honored as a Underground RR STOP. Now black,John Parker's,on the riverbank's getting attention,after a book was published. And I toured the Piano Factory Antique Mall,while she showed a house nearby. Someday-someday,I'll get her up Psgah Ridge,2-3 miles west of town,over Levana,where her Alexander Hill and Andrew Kirkpatrick lived in 1799. Someday. We have not been far from the s ARNHEIN home of her James Kirkpatrick m Mahala Sellers. 1860-70 . And we've been a couple times to Lake Manor,s of Mt Orab,to eat. Bill Krody,,like my wife,from Williamsburg High, is minister of Georgetown Methodist,and Bethel's retired Methodist ministers-Lowell and Scottie Crabtree are also in Georgetown. In my day,Justin Wmsley's dad ministered there. And Rev Tweedle at the Presbyterian. Sally Tweedle Wardlow[?] is still around Georgetown. ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!
Also Hermon, Since your wife is a real estate agent, maybe she knows of the farm my great grandfater spoke of in Winchester. He was Alexander Gilfillen, the town doc in Russelville. Cynthia