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Abby

posted by ablachly at 10:36 am (EST) on Jul 15, 2009

The Horse and the Blue Grass Country is a lovely book, mine is currently on loan to a friend who is also fascinated with the history of this beautiful region. I live on the southwest side of town.
It sounds like you have some wonderful pieces of history in your collection.
I noticed you also had a copy of "The Race" by the late Eunice Walkup. I had the pleasure to meet her many years ago when we lived next door to each other. We got to be great friends, and she was kind enough to include me in a small writers' workshop she had established. She was a fascinating person with a great interest in horse racing. I was thrilled to run across a copy of the book some years later.
Nice to meet you!

posted by fallaspen at 9:49 am (EST) on Apr 30, 2009

added an image of the Mary S. Rezny / Horse Mania dust jacket/book cover. A wonderful time in Lexington that June of 2000. My family went up to Lex from Atlanta to visit family and our children were awestruck by the myriad of plastic horses in every nook and cranny of the Main Street, Broadway, and through out the downtown.

posted by chuck_ralston at 10:42 am (EST) on Sep 20, 2008

I've been to Christ Church Cathedral in Louisville, which is an Episcopal church, I believe. I don't think I've ever been in an Episcopal church for a regular service though. Being on staff at a church, I'm obviously pretty busy on Sunday mornings. When I was attending Boyce I made a couple of worship visits to denominational churches that I had never attended (St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Amelia, OH and First Presbyterian Church of Dalton, GA, a PCUSA church). I particularly enjoyed the music at the Presbyterian church. While neither of the sermons were based upon the Bible, at least the Catholic church had much Scripture reading, which I think is something that my fellow evangelicals need to learn to incorporate more of in services. My church is actually unusual for a Southern Baptist church in that we do read a psalm and a chapter from another portion of the Bible during every Sunday morning service.

As for organized religion, it does have its pros and cons, but that would be a post far too long for a comment section (and would require too much thinking for me on this Monday morning). :o)

posted by kennywells at 8:47 am (EST) on Jun 16, 2008

Hi, Mr. Randolph! Sorry for the delay in responding to your comment on my page. I usually get on LibraryThing to catalog my books and then log back off. It's interesting that you know some Wells. My grandfather was born in Illinois (maybe southern Illinois), so I might have some kin out there. He was a Southern Baptist pastor and finally ended up in northern Georgia, where my father met my mother and, well...the rest is history, as they say.

I've never been out in western KY, but I'll be heading to Murray State University for a week this summer.

By the way, I noticed that you have The Trail of Blood. I'd be interested in your thoughts on it. It's a unique work. :o)

posted by kennywells at 4:13 pm (EST) on May 27, 2008

I will see if I can help you find the book you are looking for. Do you want to read it or own it?

posted by BibliAuPair at 6:13 pm (EST) on May 13, 2008

Hello, Mr. Randolph. How nice of you to write. I am the law librarian in Alexandria (and also a lawyer). I hope some day, when you son can find the time, he will stop in to the "little gem in the courthouse" and introduce himself.

posted by BibliAuPair at 6:11 pm (EST) on May 13, 2008

I own the child centered speller and several other like books because I used them to teach children when my daughter and stepson were kids. I have not catalogued all my books but I found quite a few like books -- old McGuffey readers and others. I found them very good for teaching young kids. My daughter just had twins a month ago and I am looking forward to using these books with them. Oh, nice to meet you.

posted by gautherbelle at 9:05 pm (EST) on Apr 29, 2008

Thanks for your comment, Mr. Randolph. I'm resident in Lexington at the moment while I finish up the research for my theology thesis, then I'm going back to Oxford for several weeks to finish up the writing in late summer. The Randolph Hotel is a fun place; my college president was kind enough to buy dinner there for a few students. I had lamb, and it was memorable. :0) Cheers!

posted by kylepotter at 7:05 am (EST) on Jun 20, 2007

My apologies for this very late response to your comment of 18 Feb 2007 11:18 p.m.. I have no recollection of where I purchased G.H. Baillie's 'Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World'. I'm looking at it now and there are no markings to indicate place or cost of purchase, but it was probably here in Ottawa, Canada, more than 25 years ago.

My copy is a reprint of the Third Edition, 1966, published by N.A.G. Press Ltd. No place given. 388 pages with pp. 375 - 388 consisting of maps. Original price 42/- (42 shillings). V. Good copy with dust jacket.

I have two oldish clocks: a ginger bread by the New Haven Clock Co. of New Haven, Conn. and a French Ormolu by Japy Freres, Paris, France. You have a gem!

posted by franek at 4:24 pm (EST) on May 4, 2007

Y'know.. I figured out the LT thing about a half-a-nanosecond after I hit send. DOH! Yeah, I'm a blonde...

Nope, I don't work at Jamestown, we do a living history event there every March. Actually, you couldn't pay me enough to be there next week when the Queen arrives. Yowie! We'll go up after the crowd dies down. Enjoy, and good luck!

posted by VMAA2 at 10:37 pm (EST) on Apr 29, 2007

Hi LHR-

Yes, the photo is from Jamestown! Good eye! The wall was a temporary one, erected a couple of years ago while they were building the new visitors center. It's gone now, of course. You'll have a great time when you visit, they've really worked hard on the entire facility. It really is wonderful.

What is "LT"?

posted by VMAA2 at 9:58 pm (EST) on Apr 29, 2007

Hi, I'm not one of the staff - just a member. If you have pictures you want to submit for an author - just go to the author page (you can search for authors if they're not in your library through the "Search" tab) and click the "add a picture" link. You'll need to include credit/copyright/permission to re-use information there too.

A member probably saw your post about John Kennedy and found a photo to add to his page, but anyone can do that. If we all requested photos via the discussions area, we'd have no room for anything else :)

There is a list of staff and their contact details on the About and Blog pages - you can email them directly, sometimes they will respond in the group discussions otherwise members like myself chip in. Any questions regarding author pictures can be posted in the Author Pictures group (click here).

posted by AndrewB at 12:35 am (EST) on Apr 19, 2007

Hi there, author pictures aren't obtained by the LibraryThing administrators, so there's no need to post to the R.S.I group requesting photos be added. They can be uploaded by anyone (you can too) who is a member, as long as the appropriate rights and permission are obtained from the picture's creator and there are fields to enter that information when uploading a photo.

posted by AndrewB at 12:30 am (EST) on Apr 18, 2007

Hi there! I got your comment about the wedding embassy yearbook in my collection. Can't recall exactly where I picked it up but it might have been Ace Books in Culpeper, VA - I get a lot of mine there and the price marking looks like there handwriting. :) Great story about the copy you found.

posted by agrotke at 12:32 pm (EST) on Mar 3, 2007

Hi again, Haley. I'm sorry, I haven't been getting notification of comments, but I think I've got it set to notify me now.

Now, about that picture: I'm not really familiar with McGarvey so I don't know what I'd do with the picture. I do appreciate the offer, though. It's nice of you to think of me. Let me know if you hear any more about Little Black Sambo.

Thanks!

posted by susanwithagoodbook at 12:54 pm (EST) on Mar 1, 2007

Hi Haley, I saw your comments about my collection. We do have some good ones in common, don't we! Yes, I'm still a member of the church of Christ. I went through a few years of questioning, but I kept going back and reading the Bible and finally I decided that, even though it isn't perfect, the coC is closest to what I see in the NT pattern. My brother, however, decided to become Episcopalian like you, so I guess I have some understanding of your journey.

You also asked about [Little Black Sambo]. My copy doesn't list an author. I assumed that was because it's a folk tale with author unknown. Wikipedia, however, has a page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Blac...) that lists [[Helen Bannerman]] as the author of the original story. My copy belonged to my brother and me when we were kids and I just never got rid of it. It's not in the best condition, but the pages look alright. Our set of Tell-a-Tales books were VERY well loved! I had not realized that [Little Black Sambo] was a controversial title, but I guess I really hadn't thought about it. It's too bad, though. I think it's a cute story. It always makes me want some pancakes!!

I just googled it and found that a "good condition" copy of the same edition of my book is selling for $75. I'm pretty sure mine wouldn't be worth that because of its condition, but I wouldn't sell it anyway. It's got strong childhood memories for me. It, and [A Teeny-Tiny Tale] are among the most memorable from my childhood.

posted by susanwithagoodbook at 10:59 am (EST) on Feb 24, 2007

I live in Louisville. I love all the old books from the 50's and 60's (and further back) that are falling by the wayside because libraries think only new stuff is suitable for children to read. I could get on my soapbox about that but I won't. I am hopelessly politically IN-correct!

posted by booklady1951 at 3:44 pm (EST) on Feb 20, 2007