After April of 2024, the First Presbyterian Church in Hazard, with whom we share Jim Garrett as supply minister, met at 9:00 a.m. to allow us to meet at 11:30. Last fall, they asked if we would be willing to meet once a month at 9:00 a.m so that they can have a later service on that day. So, now our worship service on third Sundays is at 9:00 a.m. On other Sundays, we meet as usual for Sunday School at 10:30 and church at 11:30. When we worship at 9:00, Sunday School follows the worship service.
Last fall's big news, of course, was that the Log Cathedral, the community building, and the manse had all been repainted.
There were repairs done to the manse as well, and the gutters of all three buildings got a well-needed cleaning. This spring the session voted to remove two trees that encroach on the manse, and we installed covers on the gutters of the manse and community building.We have a new internet service, PRTC, at the church and manse, which should improve the reliability when we broadcast our services. I assume that you are all aware that when the Internet cooperates, our worship services may be viewed on Facebook. The videos are recorded for later viewing, but Facebook takes them down after 30 days.
We are looking forward to the biannual meeting of the Buckhorn Alumni Association on the weekend of October 16-18. Activities will be centered at the Buckhorn Lake State Resort Park and the Buckhorn School, but we will be serving lunch to the alumni at the school on Saturday, and the Association officers will be installed Sunday morning in the Log Cathedral.
Although we have no regular organist, and we rarely meet in the Log Cathedral, our newly renovated organ is in occasional use by visiting organists who play it for the joy of the experience. These are personal visits, not concerts, but these artists are welcome.
We continue to meet for a potluck dinner, fellowship, devotions, and prayer on Wednesday evenings. The starting time had been moved up to 6:00 p.m. from 5:00 p.m. when the days were longer, but they are getting shorter again, and we will return to the 5:00 p.m. time on October 7th.
Jimmy Moore's bound paperback, "A Pictorial History of Witherspoon College" is still available for $15, and we recently printed another twenty copies. If any of you prefer a flash drive, they cost only $5 and contain both the entire book, its index, and a folder with all the individual pages for convenience in printing.
I continue the process of creating a sequel to Jimmy's book that will cover the years 1950 to 2000. At the moment, I continue to search for pictures of the fifty-two men and women who served the church as elders during that period. Their families have been helpful, and I now have reasonable photos of all but two of the fifty-two. If anyone has a picture of Amanda (Mandy) May or Marlin Ingram, it would be most welcome. I am also looking for pictures of some long-time employees at the Buckhorn Dam: Bethel Wells from Asher, KY, Joe Merlin, who supervised the building of the dam, and Ed Browning, dam operator. My pictures of John Q. Brewer (Beattyville resident) and Office Manager Richard Wolfram are very poor and need to be replaced. Thanks in advance for any of these.
If you have news for this page, please let me know.
Eric Schonblom
(606) 398-5186 (office)
(606) 223-9606 (cell phone)
email: anobium@kih.net