Rolling Dachshund Pull Toy
Wooden Dachshund toy made by Delmar Eby of London, KY. Offered in the Fort St. Clair Kennel Club Raffle.
Delmar, a father of six, began making toys while teaching at a private school. Making toys was a way for his son to have something to occupy his time in the evenings. Although Delmar's skills are basically self-taught, both his father and grandfather liked to work with wood. He comments, Perhaps it's in our blood!
What began as a hobby in 1989 has grown into a full-time business. The Eby's toys are functional and are constructed completely with wood using very little hardware. Most of the wood used to construct their toys is obtained locally, with the exception of cedar and mahogany. Their items are finished with a natural oil that is non-toxic.
The Ebys are members of the Kentucky Craft Marketing Program.
The Ebys' work can be found at the Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft in Louisville, KY; at the Appalachian Artisan Center in Hindman, KY; Shaker village at Pleasant Hill, Harrodsburg, KY; Shaker Museum at South Union, Auburn, KY; Red Bird Mission Crafts, Beverly, KY; Log House Gallery, Berea, KY; Appalachian Fireside Gallery, Berea, KY; Cozy Corner, Whitesburg, KY; Completely Kentucky, Frankfort, KY; National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY; My Old Kentucky Home State Park, Bardstown, KY; Top Drawer Gallery, Berea, KY; and at the Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea, Berea, KY
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Doug Flynn visits the Log Cabin Gallery at Berea College and speaks with Tim Glotzbach, director of crafts, to learn about the latest crafts programs offered at the college.
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Betty's Trip to Boone Tavern Restaurant--NO RECIPE--
Betty and her husband, Rick, have dinner out at Boone Tavern Restaurant in Berea, Kentucky.
Boone Tavern Restaurant is owned and operated by Berea College. Berea College came into existence in 1855, the first coeducational and racially-integrated college in the Southern U.S. Now it provides a tuition-free education to (mainly) impoverished Southern Appalachia, as well as students from about 60 other countries. Berea College currently has about 1,500 students and still maintains a work-study program, allowing students to work at least 10 hours per week in lieu of paying tuition. For the past decade, Berea College has been ranked by U.S. News and World Report as the #1 comprehensive university in the South.
Before having dinner at Boone Tavern Restaurant, Rick and I stopped by a couple of arts and crafts stores to look at jewelry, pottery, and wood crafts. Berea is considered to be the arts and crafts center of the state of Kentucky. Rick and I were lucky enough to catch Warren A. May in his woodworking shop. He specializes in the making of finely-crafted dulcimers. Mr. May was kind enough to give us a little demonstration of dulcimer-playing for this video. If you are interested in his work, please visit his website, warrenamay.com.
Inside the Boone Tavern Hotel lobby, we examined a photo gallery of famous past guests, and we also pointed out a copy of Richard T. Hougen's first cookbook, Look No Further, which was published in 1958. Hougen was the director of the Boone Tavern Restaurant from 1935-1975, and created many of the recipes prepared there. After a dinner which included spoonbread, tossed green salad, chicken in a bird's nest, pork chops some tricky way, race day pie, and soft drinks, we made our traditional trip to the gift shop to try our hand at Skittles, a game that is played on a finely-crafted wooden tray with cut-outs and spindles. We had a great time, as usual, in Berea . . . but we would have like to have shown you more!
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Owsley County's Mountain Designs and Crafts
A recent grant program that allows local artisans to display and sell their hand made crafts. Located in downtown Booneville, KY, this Mountain Design and Craft store is a great place to find that perfect gift item.
berea guild 6 min video
Here is info about the berea guild and the fall fair 2013
Of Hands and Hearts: The Kentucky Guild of Artists | Kentucky Muse | KET
Kentucky Muse's Of Hands and Hearts: The Kentucky Guild of Artists & Craftsmen profiles artists of mixed ages and media to showcase the history and personalities behind the Kentucky Guild of Artists.
Of Hands and Hearts: The Kentucky Guild of Artists & Craftsmen premieres Monday, Sept. 30 at 9/8 p.m. on KET.
The program provides a picture of what drives these artists and craftspeople individually, as well as the importance of an artisan community connection provided by being a member of the guild.
The visually stunning documentary shows off the artistic process, showcasing artists at work in their studios. It also makes a visit to the Kentucky Artisan Center in Berea and the fall craft fair. Interviews include:
--Young jewelry maker Carrie Blackburn of Winchester, who uses the lost-wax technique to cast sterling silver
--Traditional basket weavers Gin Petty and Janet Northern, both lifetime guild members
--Potter Matthew Gaddie, who operates a wood-fired kiln on a farm in Bardstown
--Acclaimed stained glass artist Dan Neil Barnes, who calls the guild an eternal flame that plays a vital role in career development for artists.
The KET-produced series Kentucky Muse celebrates the world of creativity found within the Bluegrass state. It offers thoughtful and provocative documentaries on artists, issues, events, and places that reflect Kentuckians' diverse and exciting means of expression while offering a fresh perspective on contemporary artistic life.
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Video: Kolkata Art Festival Art Haat Announced
Arts Acre Foundation announced an arts festival and fair, Art Haat. The event also saw the launch of the logo of the event Art Haat.
The Great Gildersleeve: Halloween Party / Hayride / A Coat for Marjorie
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.
Our Miss Brooks: Mash Notes to Harriet / New Girl in Town / Dinner Party / English Dept. / Problem
Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952--56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name.
Connie (Constance) Brooks (Eve Arden), an English teacher at fictional Madison High School.
Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), blustery, gruff, crooked and unsympathetic Madison High principal, a near-constant pain to his faculty and students. (Conklin was played by Joseph Forte in the show's first episode; Gordon succeeded him for the rest of the series' run.) Occasionally Conklin would rig competitions at the school--such as that for prom queen--so that his daughter Harriet would win.
Walter Denton (Richard Crenna, billed at the time as Dick Crenna), a Madison High student, well-intentioned and clumsy, with a nasally high, cracking voice, often driving Miss Brooks (his self-professed favorite teacher) to school in a broken-down jalopy. Miss Brooks' references to her own usually-in-the-shop car became one of the show's running gags.
Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler on radio, billed sometimes under his birth name Ira Grossel); Robert Rockwell on both radio and television), Madison High biology teacher, the shy and often clueless object of Miss Brooks' affections.
Margaret Davis (Jane Morgan), Miss Brooks' absentminded landlady, whose two trademarks are a cat named Minerva, and a penchant for whipping up exotic and often inedible breakfasts.
Harriet Conklin (Gloria McMillan), Madison High student and daughter of principal Conklin. A sometime love interest for Walter Denton, Harriet was honest and guileless with none of her father's malevolence and dishonesty.
Stretch (Fabian) Snodgrass (Leonard Smith), dull-witted Madison High athletic star and Walter's best friend.
Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft), Madison High English teacher, and a scheming professional and romantic rival to Miss Brooks.
Jacques Monet (Gerald Mohr), a French teacher.
Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio from the outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications of the time. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. Harry Ackerman, West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role.
Lucille Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was already committed to My Favorite Husband and didn't audition. Chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script--Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president but was now written as the incoming new Madison principal--Arden agreed to give the newly-revamped show a try.
Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on July 19, 1948. According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very feline in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the cast--blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, scheming Miss Enright--also received positive reviews.
Arden won a radio listeners' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948-49, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March. I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton, she joked. But she was also a hit with the critics; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.
For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo and Toni hair care products. The radio series continued until 1957, a year after its television life ended.