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April
2007
April
21 * Guest
Speaker- Tell City/ Perry County Library, Tell City, IN
Yours Truly at the Tell City/ Perry County Appearance
April 21, 2007
I
was invited to come to Perry County, Indiana, by Larry
Oathout, Director of the Tell City/ Perry County LIbrary.
For those of you not aware of the location of Tell City -
it is maybe 50 miles east and upriver of Newburgh. The Tell
City library had a mini-Civil War program on Saturday,
April 21 and it was my great pleasure to be part of it. I
have to relate one little annoyance about living in
southwestern Indiana - I can never tell what time zone I'm
in once I start traveling north and east of Evansville.
Part of the year Evansville is on the same time as most of
Indiana and part of the year we aren't. This is the long
way of saying that about half way to Tell City I became
convinced that I was going to arrive late because I hadn't
calculated a change in time zones. The last 30 miles to
Tell City were covered in record time I assure you. All for
naught as it turned out. Tell City and Evansville were on
the same time zone. I still can't figure the time zones
out.
Anyway, since
Tell City is a small town and Perry County is quite rural I
wasn't sure just how many people would show up. A crowd of
about 25 came to the library and I was happy to come and do
my thing. I had a great time. It was a very loose affair.
After my talk I was followed by local historian Mike
Rutherford who did a nice talk on local Perry County Civil
War affairs. I hung around and talked to everyone afterward
and sold a bunch of books. I drove home in good order and
was happy I went to Perry County. It was my first
appearance in four weeks and I worry about getting rusty -
luckily everything turned out ok.
