tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post314162987759582599..comments2024-03-27T22:35:08.926-04:00Comments on The Heath Post: Oh, BardwellGoHeathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122010542579322600noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-90908587811520203782020-07-18T17:04:43.062-04:002020-07-18T17:04:43.062-04:00That's amazing, isn't it? God could've...That's amazing, isn't it? God could've rigged this thing however God wanted to rig it, and God rigged it that we all get to participate in the new creation that God is always unfolding. It makes everything, every moment, Bardwell and every other place totally notable. Thank you, God, for that.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-23035106563688815232020-07-18T17:03:10.177-04:002020-07-18T17:03:10.177-04:00But, even more, I thank God for giving each of us ...But, even more, I thank God for giving each of us our shots--no matter how seemingly unnotable those shots are. I don't know anything about the person in Picture 14. She or he might be a former Bardwell mayor or the director of Carlisle County High's senior-class play from 65 years ago, or she or he might have done literally nothing that made the <i>HP</i> or <i>The Carlisle County News</i>. And yet I do know it is true that the person in Picture 14, who sure appears to me to be doing something with tremendous purpose and effort, has an ever-renewing, somehow both utterly common but also totally singular-to-her opportunity to be no less than the mouth/hands/feet/brain/heart of Jesus Christ. Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-34557134081243712402020-07-18T16:46:48.246-04:002020-07-18T16:46:48.246-04:00I really love learning hearing, collecting and tel...I really love learning hearing, collecting and telling the interesting stories about notable people like Alexander and Eliza Hamilton, M.K. Turk and Martha Ruth Stewart Haworth, and I thank God for all of those.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-58735886257525735042020-07-18T16:44:19.815-04:002020-07-18T16:44:19.815-04:00We've been watching a lot of Hamilton: An Amer...We've been watching a lot of <i>Hamilton: An American Musical</i> in my house over the last two weeks. All three of us have sat through six end-to-end viewings of the filmed production on Disney Plus since Independence Day. <a href="https://www.heathpost.com/2016/01/hamilton-american-musical.html?showComment=1594671620380#c4200680134181388655" rel="nofollow">As I talked about at GoHeath's great 2016 review, I am just totally blown away by <i>Hamilton</i>.</a>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-2029250237292674952020-07-18T16:33:48.458-04:002020-07-18T16:33:48.458-04:00And that brings me back to Picture 14. I love that...And that brings me back to Picture 14. I love that person in Picture 14. I think it's a woman, but it doesn't really make any difference to me. Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-83905720797251057532020-07-18T16:11:06.648-04:002020-07-18T16:11:06.648-04:00York, Henley, Rambo, Tyler, Hall and Slone--the na...York, Henley, Rambo, Tyler, Hall and Slone--the names of the 1983 Comets from Fields's story--are not in the <i>Wikipedia</i> list, but they certainly are in my personal list of notable Bardwellians. I stopped in the local newspaper about 25 years ago and asked about what happened to the notable guys from the team. Here's what I took down from that conversation:<br /><br /><i>Woman in the newspaper office: “One’s the basketball coach at Murray. HT’s a worker—I don’t know where; he just works. Elvin just works, and Bubby doesn’t do nothing—does he, Mike?”<br /><br />Mike: “I think he’s going to mortician school.”</i>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-20695360848747659242020-07-18T15:57:39.258-04:002020-07-18T15:57:39.258-04:00And there's Martha Ruth Stewart Haworth, who a...And there's Martha Ruth Stewart Haworth, who acted on Broadway, in several movies and made a number of appearances in the very early days of television. (This woman is apparently still living out in California--she's 97!)Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-14384787816482982412020-07-18T15:50:15.873-04:002020-07-18T15:50:15.873-04:00There's Clyde Walter Ehrhardt, who was one of ...<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Ehrhardt" rel="nofollow">There's Clyde Walter Ehrhardt, who was one of the defensive studs on Georgia's 1943 Rose Bowl winner and then played three seasons with the NFL's Washington whatevers. (That poor man accidentally shot and killed himself on a hunting trip.)</a> Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-4062423723931112332020-07-18T15:24:13.443-04:002020-07-18T15:24:13.443-04:00There's Roy Mahlon Shelbourne, a Truman appoin...<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Mahlon_Shelbourne" rel="nofollow">There's Roy Mahlon Shelbourne, a Truman appointee to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky who served as chief judge for 12 years.</a>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-49502777769116694562020-07-18T15:20:32.221-04:002020-07-18T15:20:32.221-04:00There's Thomas L. Glenn, a Confederate soldier...<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_L._Glenn" rel="nofollow">There's Thomas L. Glenn, a Confederate soldier and Ballard County clerk/state senator who moved out to Idaho and was elected to Congress as a Populist and later served as a small-town mayor.</a>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-49706356061656381412020-07-18T15:19:54.792-04:002020-07-18T15:19:54.792-04:00There's the aforementioned M.K. Turk.There's the aforementioned M.K. Turk. Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-17486002111381863682020-07-18T15:19:43.899-04:002020-07-18T15:19:43.899-04:00The "Notable people" section of Wikipedi...The "Notable people" section of <i>Wikipedia's</i> "Bardwell, Kentucky" page mentions five people. Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-43617820230026483522020-07-18T15:13:35.109-04:002020-07-18T15:13:35.109-04:00Henry Clay won on a last-second putback. Fields qu...Henry Clay won on a last-second putback. <a href="http://khsbk100.com/652-2/" rel="nofollow">Fields quotes Carlisle County's coach, Slone, as calling it "the worst feeling I've ever had" and "pure agony."</a>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-187061263199161422020-07-18T15:09:37.555-04:002020-07-18T15:09:37.555-04:00Carlisle County looked it would get a final shot i...<i><a href="http://khsbk100.com/652-2/" rel="nofollow">Carlisle County looked it would get a final shot in the third OT, too, before losing the ball on a turnover with 90 seconds left.<br /><br />Henry Clay took possession and ran the clock down to :09 before calling a timeout.<br /><br />While the Rupp Arena crowd was holding its collective breath, I remember sensing the tension along press row. Media people are usually good at detaching themselves emotionally from the games they are chronicling. Not on this night. Everybody was caught up in the drama on the court.</a></i>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-85751168728453311042020-07-18T15:08:45.555-04:002020-07-18T15:08:45.555-04:00Fields writes that Carlisle County had shots to wi...Fields writes that Carlisle County had shots to win at the end of regulation and both of the first two overtime periods in the final. Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-63107248589376301042020-07-18T15:06:26.616-04:002020-07-18T15:06:26.616-04:00From Mike Fields's story for khsbk100.com:
Th...From Mike Fields's story for khsbk100.com:<br /><br /><i><a href="http://khsbk100.com/652-2/" rel="nofollow">The inclination was to cast Carlisle County, a rural school with 265 students from far Western Kentucky, as the underdog to Henry Clay, a city school with an enrollment of 1,500.<br /><br />The Blue Devils also looked more impressive, too. Steve Miller, a powerful 6-foot-5 junior (who would be selected Mr. Basketball the next season); Jeff Blandon, a point guard with all kinds of quickness; big-bodied Roy Moment; strong, athletic Robert Warfield; and the lithe, quick-leaping Bates.<br /><br />Carlisle County had beefy Keith York at 6-2, 220 pounds; a backcourt of David Henley and David Rambo, who could have been cast as Wally and Beaver Cleaver; rail-thin 6-7 John Tyler, and solidly built 6-2 Phillip Hall.<br /><br />But Prewitt knew not to underestimate Craynor Slone’s Comets. They had won 40 games, and one of their best performances had come in a loss. They have given Baltimore Dunbar, the No. 1 team in the nation, all kinds of problems in the King of the Bluegrass holiday tournament.</a></i>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-35250570790107169752020-07-18T10:33:20.636-04:002020-07-18T10:33:20.636-04:00Picture 25: Thank you, God, for Carlisle County Hi...Picture 25: Thank you, God, for Carlisle County High School. (Actually, I think this might be the campus for all grades of public school.) Thank you for the whole notion of public education, and thank you for all of the fun and meaningful extracurricular stuff that comes in it. For example, thank you for all of the <a href="https://www.heathpost.com/2020/02/1st-district-basketball-2010-2019.html" rel="nofollow">years</a> and <a href="https://www.heathpost.com/2017/03/the-freakin-weekend-1971_13.html" rel="nofollow">years</a> of fun we've had with KHSAA basketball. Even more specifically, thank you, God, for <a href="http://khsbk100.com/652-2/" rel="nofollow">all the fun of the #khsbbk83 tournament</a>!Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-19336943923775969532020-07-18T10:17:45.753-04:002020-07-18T10:17:45.753-04:00Pictures 21, 22, 23 and 24: Thank you, God, for sh...Pictures 21, 22, 23 and 24: Thank you, God, for shopping and commerce. I'm surprised at just how much I've missed them during the pandemic. I knew I'd miss them some. I freaking love being in a busy, prosperous mall, for example. But I miss them so much more than I realized. Thank you for the hardware store in the first of these pictures, the barbecue joint in the second, the gas station in the third and the grocery in the last--I'd love to be running a list of errands today that would take carefree me into each of them, to spend money, acquire things and interact.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-20634681273540364932020-07-18T10:13:49.656-04:002020-07-18T10:13:49.656-04:00Pictures 17, 18 and 19: Thank you, God, for all of...Pictures 17, 18 and 19: Thank you, God, for all of the churches and shady, safe neighborhoods that draw us out of our homes and families and encourage us to love and care for each other beyond boundaries.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-66086411792116438412020-07-18T10:11:21.559-04:002020-07-18T10:11:21.559-04:00Pictures 15 and 16: Imagine the activity that migh...Pictures 15 and 16: Imagine the activity that might've taken place in that building. I wonder what month and year the calendar is showing. I wonder if the clock is still running. I'd love to read the papers on the tables. Thank you, God, for all of the positive plans and projects of human endeavor that keep us cared for, utilized or at the very least occupied. Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-2063398532598674922020-07-18T10:06:23.024-04:002020-07-18T10:06:23.024-04:00Picture 14: I'm going to come back to Picture ...Picture 14: I'm going to come back to Picture 14.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-89195694041082838672020-07-18T09:59:48.786-04:002020-07-18T09:59:48.786-04:00Pictures 12 and 13: Thank you, God, for all of the...Pictures 12 and 13: Thank you, God, for all of the links--the county, state and federal highways, that railroad, all of the railroads ... and thank you for the people who built them and then made them safer and more useful.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-39584312144018834432020-07-18T09:56:37.279-04:002020-07-18T09:56:37.279-04:00Picture 11: Thank you, God, for Roselawn and all o...Picture 11: Thank you, God, for Roselawn and all of the cemeteries and their headstones. I love cemeteries. I love reading them, and I love walking around in them.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-79906611688401513572020-07-18T09:52:32.799-04:002020-07-18T09:52:32.799-04:00Picture 10: Thank you, God, for Arlington, Clinton...Picture 10: Thank you, God, for Arlington, Clinton and Fulton. Thank you for Tour 10 Nation. Thank you, God, for these WPA guides, car travel and everyone who helped build it all.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-32105898892808659842020-07-18T09:30:20.629-04:002020-07-18T09:30:20.629-04:00Picture 9: Thank you, God, for the Christian Churc...Picture 9: Thank you, God, for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), where it all came together for me. Thank you, God, for this particular Bardwell congregation, with whom my wife works. Thank you, God, for her calling and job, and thank you, God, for Rachel.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.com