Just a note to wish you all a grand weekend! Thankfully, in most parts of the country, it appears Spring finally made it. I'm putting in a plug for all of in Glasgow with this post! The South Central Ky Historical & Genealogical Society meeting last night was really neat. We had a large attendance to hear Lynwood Montell; he always is a delight. He told stories from his upcoming book of interviews with doctors. He has chosen doctors who were middle age and older, small towns, small practice and he had us laughing time after time with some of the funny cases physicians have handled. He brought copies of some of his other books including a recent book "Grassroots Music in the Upper Cumberland", "Reminisces and Reflections: African Americans in the Kentucky-Tennessee Upper Cumberland Since the Civil War", his books on interviews of KY lawyers, TN Lawyers and others. If you ever get a chance to hear Lynwood - go! April's program will be led by Scott Fife who is an expert on the Confederate soldiers of this area and will be speaking on some of their stories, burial sites, etc. May's program will be by Nancy Baird of the Manuscrips Division of WKU Library in Bowling Green and she'll be speaking on Joseph Rogers Underwood and wife of Glasgow and Bowling Green; the library has many love letters and stories of their interesting lives. June is currently open, I will let you know on this as soon as possible; July is our annual picnic which is held at the Cultural Center (no heat or flies!). Bring a salad, meat or dessert and join us! September's speaker will be Joy Lyons who is with Mammoth Cave and the main motivator in the preservation of Bell's Tavern in Park City. She has recently won a historian's award from the state to honor all she has done in cleaning up and restoring the tavern and the cemetery there - a wonderful site. Other speakers will be announced soon; one I'm anxious to hear is by Davie Reneau who is a marvelous potter from Glasgow - she has won numerous awards, traveled to Japan twice and teaches at two universities in the area. Her pottery is greatly desired and functional; I have several of her pieces and treasure them. If you are local to Glasgow or within travel distance, you are always invited to our society meetings. We meet the fourth Thursday evening of every month, 7 pm, Cultural Center at 200 Water Street, Glasgow. The programs are always free. While you're here, you really need to take a tour of the Museum of the Barrens housed in the same building; they have added some of the neatest displays - I'm going to check out what's new next week. They have an old time mercantile, an authentic log cabin (furnished), a 1940's kitchen, funeral home, Trigg Hound display (breed was created in Glasgow), an old-time one-room school house, military display, a doctor's office including a doctor's buggy and so much more. There is no admission charge (donations appreciated!). I'm going to contact Gayle Berry (whom many of you have met) and get an entire list of the displays there to let you know. We have a lot to offer of interest in Glasgow ... come visit us, Southern hospitality is in abundance! Sandi SCKY Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren GGP: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/