It is time to make your reservations for our upcoming Spring Luncheon and
Business Meeting which will be held on March 3, 2012 at Spindletop Hall. Please
RSVP to Jim Hodge at jhodge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx if you plan to attend along with your
choice of dinner entree, Chicken a la King or Penne Pasta alla Genovese
(vegetarian). We must have your RSVP by Feb 17th in order to coordinate with
Spindletop's catering office.
There will be a $23 per person charge for the luncheon. March is also when dues
for the new business year are due. If you joined and paid dues mid year you
will
not need to pay dues until March 2013. Please send a check to our Treasurer,
Joe
Swanson ( 604 Pearl Cove, Lexington, Ky 40509) for the luncheon and/or
membership dues.
Please come. The business meeting will start at 11:00 am, with lunch at about
noon followed by our guest speaker, Dr. Richard Taylor, with readings from his
new book, Rare Bird: Sonnets on the Life of John James Audubon.
Dr. Richard Taylor is known to many locally as being co-owner of Poor Richard's
Books, a former professor at KY State University now at Transylvania
University,
a community leader, citizen activist and jovial "rare bird" himself. Most all
realize he is an accomplished author. Richard Taylor's newest book, Rare Bird:
Sonnets on the Life of John James Audubon is a fine letter-press collection of
sonnets on the life of famed naturalist and painter of birds, John James
Audubon. The publication includes two original wood engravings by accomplished
engraver Wesley Bates of Ontario, Canada. According to Richard, "The poems
essentially follow Audubon's life and contain a good many specific references
to
particular species covered in Birds of America. I try to get at who he was and
what made his artistic odyssey so monumental among the sagas of artists
struggling during the l9th century. His is a great story, as you know, an
American story of the triumph of art and individual will"
David Lang
