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BACK TO THE FUTURECounty embraces progresswhile promoting history
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2009 EDITION | VOLUME 9
DEPARTMENTS
6 Almanac: a colorful sampling of Danville-Boyle County culture
19 Portfolio: people, places and events that defi ne Danville-Boyle County
33 Sports & Recreation
34 Health & Wellness
37 Community Profi le: facts, stats and important numbers to know
38 Membership Directory
41 Business Guide
DANVILLE BUSINESS 24 Soak Up the Serenity
Bed-and-breakfasts fi nd their niche with scenic views and a quiet countryside.
26 Biz Briefs
28 Chamber Report
CONTENTS
FEATURES
10 ENGAGED IN THE ARTSDanville’s growing arts scene fosters a culture of creativity.
14 BACK TO THE FUTUREDanville and Boyle County embrace progress while promoting a rich history.
16 LET’S DO LUNCHLocal eateries’ menus are packed with fresh fare and one-of-a-kind offerings.
31 TRADITION MEETS TECHNOLOGY Kentucky School for the Deaf adds videophones and other innovations.
36 JOHN TRAVOLTA ACTED HEREAfter more than 50 years, Pioneer Playhouse still draws crowds.
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Reins in the ForecastA large tract of property in Boyle and Mercer counties will soon help children with chronic illnesses
and their families enjoy happier days.
The nonprofit Camp Horsin’ Around is in the works on 191 acres and will eventually include horse stables,
a pool and campers’ cabins, as well as a fully equipped medical-clinic building. The first residential cabin
at the camp was completed in 2007, and a $3.9 million capital campaign is in the works to complete the
overall facility.
When the camp is finished, it will welcome children with chronic illnesses, including cancer, diabetes, asthma,
sickle cell anemia, kidney disease, HIV/AIDS and heart ailments. Visit www.camphorsinaround.org for details.
Strides in SurgeryTwo hundred years ago, Dr. Ephraim
McDowell did something spectacular.
The renowned doctor successfully
removed a 22.5-pound tumor from a
female patient in 1809 – without anesthesia.
Patient Jane Todd Crawford thought she
was pregnant with twins, but McDowell
discovered she had a large ovarian tumor.
The tumor was removed on Christmas
Day, and McDowell became known as
the Father of Abdominal Surgery.
Today, Danville visitors can tour the
doctor’s historic home, McDowell House
and Apothecary, and see the very room
where the momentous operation took
place. The house underwent a complete
renovation in 2007.
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Fast Facts Hundreds of
re-enactors travel to Perryville each October to stage the Battle of Perryville, which originally took place in 1862.
Elizabeth Taylor stayed in Danville for six weeks in August and September of 1956 to film the Civil War epic Raintree County.
Danville has been featured in Time magazine as one of America’s most successful small towns.
Danville was home to the first college and law school west of the Alleghenies, and it’s home to the country’s first state-supported school for the deaf.
The yearly average temperature in Danville and Boyle County is a comfortable 55 degrees Fahrenheit.
The Great American Brass Band Festival entertains crowds of more than 30,000 over a weekend in Danville every June.
These Kids Are Wired
Danville schools have embraced
the 21st century.
All five schools in the district
offer wireless Internet, allowing
students to use their laptop
computers to look up information
online from anywhere on school
property. The schools are Hogsett
Elementary, Jennie Rogers
Elementary, Toliver Elementary,
Bate Middle and Danville High. The
Danville school district has 1,750
students, and the system recently
purchased 249 new computers.
The Boyle County School District
has its own claim to fame. For
three years in a row, the district
has achieved the highest scores
in the Central Kentucky Education
Cooperative on the Commonwealth
Accountability and Testing System
assessment. This test measures
student performance in all
content areas.
In addition, both Danville and
Boyle County high schools are
football powerhouses in the state.
Muy Bien, Centre CollegeAtención, por favor: A program called Centro Latino is now in
place at Centre College.
Through this innovative program, students, faculty and other
volunteers are helping the growing Hispanic community
transition more easily to American life. Centro Latino’s
office is near Centre’s campus in downtown Danville,
and it’s open 20 hours a week Monday through Friday.
Volunteers help Hispanic residents fill out
paperwork, accompany them to medical appointments
and help in various other ways where translation is
needed. Centre College advertises in Spanish publications
and in Hispanic neighborhoods to make sure the people who
need help are aware of the program.
The Next ChapterThe Boyle County Public Library soon
will be the finest public library in central Kentucky – and possibly the entire state.
The facility is expanding from its current 17,000 square feet up to 44,000 square feet. The existing library is housed in a 1939 building that was expanded in 1988, and architects are expanding to the west and around the current facility to retain a unified look.
The renovations are scheduled to be complete by April 2009. Highlights include a large, brightly lit rotunda entranceway and a large children’s area at the front of the building.
While the work is in progress, Boyle County Public Library is temporarily housed in a building at 1857 S. Danville Bypass.
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Boyle County: 28,664
LOCATIONBoyle County is near the geographic
center of Kentucky, about 35 miles
south of Lexington. Danville is the
county seat of Boyle County.
BEGINNINGSDanville was officially established
in 1787 and served as the capital
of the Kentucky district.
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Excitement in Store
Merchants’ Row in Perryville is
the only 19th-century mercantile
district in the United States that
has remained entirely intact.
The commercial district along
Buell Street looks like it did in
1860, with 12 quaint wooden
buildings showcasing their
old-time architecture. And now
the historic venue has become a
part of the Main Street program,
which allows the district to apply
for state grants that go toward
improvement projects.
Back in 2006, a Perryville
Enhancement Project took place
to renovate the existing Brinton
House, Parks Store, Karrick-Parks
House, the old opera house and
other buildings.
Book ItA new photography book
has been published – entirely about Boyle County.
Heart of Kentucky is a hardcover title that came out in 2008
following a photojournalism Mountain Workshop that took place
in Boyle County in 2007. Mountain Workshop is a photojournalism,
multimedia and picture-editing program produced by Western
Kentucky University that brings a five-day professional photography
seminar to a different Kentucky community each year.
The workshop features aspiring photography students who are
coached by some of the best photographers in Kentucky, including
Pulitzer Prize winners. The result is a book of diverse photographs
shot by the students, with professional, award-winning photographers
overseeing the entire project.
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Untitled glass pieces by renowned glass artist Stephen Rolfe Powell are part of his Screamer series.
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W ith a thriving arts center, a foundation of well-known artists and a hard-working arts commission, Danville and Boyle County are emerging as cultural cornerstones.
Taking center stage in the region’s creative efforts is the Community Arts Center, which has taken a former post office and transformed the Beaux Arts building into a hub of activity.
“In just four years, the Community Arts Center has been transformed from an empty, neglected building on Main Street to a thriving center of arts activity,” says Amy Wise, director of marketing and development for the CAC. “The center now serves as a regional hub for the visual and performing arts and is a preferred location for a wide variety of meetings and events in the center of downtown Danville.”
The center works to bring art – and artists – to the entire county, and it has created outreach programs with local school systems and other organizations. One such program is the Arts Cart, which brings art opportunities to seniors, underserved youth and others who can’t make it into town.
The arts center also offers education, art exhibits and displays that change monthly.
The CAC is home to artist David Farmer, who was operating a downtown studio before the center came online. When the facility created permanent studio space for a professional artist, he was tapped for the position.
“The situation has been ideal for me,” Farmer says. “I meet clients from all areas and do business in town that would have otherwise required the use of my home studio, remotely located on Herrington Lake. This is an open studio where children visit daily in connection with other activities such as music lessons, and the staff and I often give informal talks to school groups about the process of making art.”
No talk of the Danville arts scene is complete without mentioning Centre College’s Norton Center for the Arts. This gorgeous facility is one of the state’s leading presenters of diverse, significant performances, hosting such big names as Yo-Yo Ma, the London Philharmonic, Boston Pops, Itzhak Perlman and touring Broadway shows.
The college is home to Stephen Rolfe Powell, a Centre College alumnus, professor of art and internationally acclaimed glass artist. He founded Centre’s glass program, which attracts students from across the country.
The area also is well served by the Arts Commission of Danville/Boyle County, which works to promote local talent through a variety of programs.
One of its most popular activities is the Gallery Hop Stop, which began in 2004 as a showcase for city and county artists, says Executive Director Ann Nichols.
“With a generous grant from Kentucky Utilities Co. and E.ON U.S., the arts commission hosts two ‘Hops’ during the year – one on the Friday night of the Great American Brass Band Festival weekend [in June] and the other in November,” Nichols says.
Special banners point out each location on or near Main Street, where local businesses and agencies serve as galleries for the evening. More than 100 artists have exhibited through the program.
“The venues for the evening are as eclectic as the art itself, and it’s wonderful to see the spirit of cooperation that exists in our downtown sector,” Nichols says. “The extra time and expense that local businesses or agencies donate to making the Hop Stop series successful – as well as the people who attend even in a downpour – are a testament to the value that this community places on the arts.”
STORY BY JOE MORRIS | PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN McCORD
Top left: Stephen Rolfe Powell, acclaimed glass artist and professor, works on a vessel. Top right: The Community Arts Center is a regional hub for for the visual and performing arts. On display are glassworks by artist Sungsoo Kim.
SEE MORE ONLINE | Find more photos of glass artist Stephen Rolfe Powell. Visit imagesdanville.com.
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DANVILLE AND BOYLE COUNTY EMBRACE PROGRESS WHILE PROMOTING RICH HISTORY
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T hat Boyle County ranked among the Top 10 Best Places to Live in the Rural Southeast in The Progressive Farmer
magazine in 2008 didn’t come as a surprise to those who live here. Boyle County residents know they’ve got it good – and now their secret’s out.
“Danville is a bustling college town with a great health-care system and a central location that manages to hold onto its rural roots,” says Adam Johnson, a Centre College graduate who now serves as executive director of the Danville/Boyle County Convention & Visitors Bureau. “We’re known for history – it’s our biggest draw. That history is spearheaded by the Perryville Battlefield, which is one of our country’s best-preserved gems and looks today much like it did in 1862.
“Plus, our state constitution was founded in Danville at Constitution Square,” Johnson adds, “and Danville’s Ephraim McDowell House is the site of the first abdominal surgery.”
Danville and Boyle County may be known for history, but that doesn’t mean they’re living in the past. The progressive region continues to move forward while preserving its heritage.
“We try to assess how development will tell our history while making us more modern,” says Julie Wagner, executive director of Danville’s award-winning Main Street program, Heart of Danville. “Our entire commercial district is on the National Register of Historic Places, and we’re nominating additional properties for the list.”
Danville’s historic downtown build-ings are being converted to trendy loft apartments, offices and businesses while keeping their charming facades.
“A huge new medical surgery center recently opened downtown, and a lot of time and money was spent to preserve the building’s façade instead of just knocking it down,” Johnson says.
In August 2008, Heart of Danville formed a downtown entertainment task
force to identify more dining and enter-tainment possibilities. And a new multimillion-dollar parking facility recently opened at the intersection of Third and Walnut streets.
“We have about a 3-percent vacancy rate downtown, which is really low. And there are wonderful shops like Myrtle’s Market, Maple Tree Gallery and Fisher’s Cards and Gifts,” Wagner says. “The Hub is a restaurant and coffee shop that’s been a huge success and speaks to the potential of downtown.”
Also in 2008, several Danville organizations united to create a sophisticated new branding initiative that will be used on everything from brochures to the city’s Web site.
“We surveyed people in and out of Boyle County about their views on Danville, and we found that most people love it,” Wagner says. “So our new tag-line is ‘It’s better here.’ ”
“It” can refer to anything from tour-ism to economic development.
“We do believe Danville is better than any comparable city in the region,” says Jody Lassiter, president and chief executive officer of the Danville/Boyle County Economic Development Partnership. “Businesses and individuals are really attracted to Danville’s ‘countrypolitan’ feel, as we like to call it. We enjoy a country lifestyle with the amenities of a larger metro area. We have multiple levels of world-class education, a business-friendly environment and a high class of arts with places like the Norton Center.”
Since December 2007, the Danville/Boyle County Economic Development Partnership has provided site assistance to 10 new business prospects and assisted eight existing businesses and industries with expansion projects.
“With Danville being a hub for health care, we see opportunities to grow the technology and health services of our local economy,” Lassiter says. “Danville is an easy sell and a great community to promote because its reputation for success precedes itself.”
STORY BY JESSICA MOZO
Downtown on the UpswingNEW PROJECTS COULD
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Downtown Danville may see
some major changes in the
next few years, including the
addition of a 100-plus-room
hotel, a grocery store, upscale
and casual restaurants, and lots
of trendy condos in the upper
floors of its historic buildings.
The Uptown Danville
Development Company is
hoping to make these plans
a reality if awarded the $30
million in new-market tax
credits from the federal
government.
The UDDC is working to take
advantage of federal programs
like the new-market tax credits
for investments that stimulate
economic opportunities.
“We have a wish list of 10
projects for downtown, and
we’ve identified potential sites,”
says Philip Nichols, president
of the Uptown Danville
Development Co., a for-profit
offshoot of Heart of Danville.
“Our vision is people being
able to live, work and find
entertainment downtown. We
want to maintain the character
and façade of downtown
buildings while updating them
to accommodate future needs.”
– Jessica Mozo
Clockwise from top: A renovated loft apartment in downtown Danville; arched windows in a loft apartment; Ephraim McDowell House and Apothecary; a display at the Constitution Square Courthouse in Danville.
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A big, crunchy salad? An overstuffed Reuben sand-wich? Maybe some homemade rolls slathered with pimiento cheese?
When it comes to lunch, Danville eateries offer plenty of options.
The Hub Coffee House & Café is a perennial favorite with everyone from Centre College students to the suit-and-tie set. Located on West Main Street in the heart of downtown, this sunny hangout’s red walls provide a striking backdrop for dark leather sofas and chairs and a changing exhibit of original work by local artists.
A lengthy lunchtime menu includes hearty wraps and sandwiches – Tuscan beef and cheese or a Southwest chicken melt, anyone? – adventurous salads, hummus platters and freshly baked goodies. Hot and cold drinks abound, with an emphasis on coffee specialty drinks like the Rattlesnake (a latte with Irish cream, vanilla and chocolate syrup), the Jitterbug (a caramel latte topped with whipped cream) and juice-based concoctions.
Bluegrass Beach House is another popular coffee shop and eatery downtown. This bustling spot sells gift items, bulk coffees and a variety of specialty coffee drinks along with sandwiches, salads, soups and fresh-baked treats.
Burke’s Bakery is famous around town for its mouth-watering homemade rolls, sweets and pimiento cheese spread, while at Melton’s Deli the lunch bunch enjoys deli specialties served in what was once an old gas station.
“We wanted to give people some things you couldn’t find around town – homemade soups, big deli sandwiches, good salads, baked potatoes, grilled sandwiches such as Philly cheesesteaks and our signature Reuben,” says Joe Davis Culbertson.
His Fourth Street Deli and Tap has steadily expanded since he bought the one-time coin laundry building 12 years ago. It’s now a 106-seat restaurant serving lunch and dinner, including beer and wine.
Culbertson says he’s encouraged by the reception his restaurant is enjoying, and he sees the downtown Danville scene growing by the day.
LOCAL EATERIES SERVE A RANGE OF FRESH FARE
STORY BY LAURA HILL
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Local art at The Hub Coffee House & Café downtown.
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In September of 1861, as America plunged toward civil war and his native
Kentucky teetered on the dividing line between Union and Confederate states, President Abraham Lincoln said, “I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.”
But Kentucky was not lost, and on Oct. 8, 1862, the Battle of Perryville – the largest and bloodiest Civil War battle fought on Kentucky soil – determined the course of history.
In five hours of fighting, 7,500 men were killed, wounded or missing – one of the worst casualty rates per hour of the entire war, says Chris Kolakowski, executive director of the Perryville Enhancement Project.
Of perhaps greater significance, “the battle secured the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Union hands for the rest of the war,” he says.
Today, the Perryville Enhancement Project – a partnership between the Perryville Battlefield Preservation Association, Boyle County, the City of Perryville and the Commonwealth of Kentucky – works to restore the battlefield to its 1862 appearance.
“We’re cutting back trees and plant-ing some new ones to recreate the tree line,” Kolakowski says. “And we’re removing structures that weren’t there.” The organization also continues to acquire battlefield land from willing sellers. Currently, the site comprises “669 preserved acres and counting,” Kolakowski notes. A museum and several monuments also are located on the grounds.
About 100,000 people visit the Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site every year, which provides a significant boost to the local economy. At the annual Perryville Battle Commem-oration each October, some 500 participants spend a weekend re-enacting the battle and depicting 19th-century military and civilian life. The event draws anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 spectators.
Preserving the Field That Secured the CommonwealthPERRYVILLE ENHANCEMENT PROJECT RESTORES BATTLEFIELD TO 1862 APPEARANCE
Re-enactors take part in the Perryville Battle Commemoration. STAFF PHOTO
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The Great American Balloon Race kicks off the Great American Brass Band Festival each June. STAFF PHOTO
Balloons and Brass Bands
John Philip Sousa would be proud to hear his march “The Stars and
Stripes Forever!” – along with everything from the “Star-Spangled Banner” to the latest Disney themes and current pop songs – belted out by the brass bands that energize Danville during the annual Great American Brass Band Festival.
In fact, John Philip Sousa IV has been a guest speaker at the music history conference held each year in conjunction with the festival.
June 11-14, 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the city’s signature event, which is run mostly by volunteers. Brass bands from all over the world will march into Danville to trumpet the celebration, and spectators in excess of 40,000 are expected to attend.
“We hope we’ll have more people than ever for the anniversary edition,” says John Albright, chairman of the festival steering committee.
As many as 6,000 people head out to the Danville-Boyle County Airport (weather permitting) to see the Great American Balloon Race kick off the festivities with brilliant colors and a lot of hot air.
And music, of course.“We usually have 25 to 30 balloons
participate in the race,” says coordinator Rick Schoebel. “It’s all free, and it’s a great way to have family fun together.”
Over the four days, about 20 bands take the main stage, located on the Centre College campus. Additional festi-val activities include a parade, a Friday night Gallery Hop with bands playing downtown at Weisiger Park and Constitution Square, a fundraising picnic Saturday evening and an interdenominational church service on Sunday morning.
Visit www.gabbf.org for complete festival information.
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Cats rest on the porch in front of Penn’s Store, the oldest country
store in America in continuous operation by the same family.
Not much has changed at Penn’s Store over the last 158 years.
Visitors can still admire the original – though now sagging – shelves, glass showcases and spikes in the ceiling from which rolls of bologna hung years ago.
Listed as the oldest store in America in continuous operation by the same family, Penn’s is currently owned by Jeanne Penn Lane, the great-great-granddaughter of Gabriel Jackson “Jack” Penn, who opened the store in 1850. Lane intends to pass it on to her daughter and granddaughter one day.
“The f loors are swayed, and the walls are leaning a little,” she says of the store. But its charm and authenticity evoke nostalgia in scores of tourists who tell Lane that Penn’s reminds them of the market their granddaddy used to own or the country store where their family shopped.
“It appears to people as their memo-ries recall,” she says.
Penn’s inventory ranges from Fix-a-Flat to handmade arts and crafts.
“We have a little bit of everything,” Lane says. “It’s about half tourist shop, half convenience mart.”
It’s also the site of some of the most celebrated, uh, “facilities” in the country. The store did not have a restroom until 1992, when Penn’s Privy (an outhouse) was installed.
“(Country music stars) Chet Atkins and Billy Edd Wheeler and a bunch of people from Nashville came out to dedicate it,” Lane explains. “The news picked it up, and it went around the world. I never knew there was so much interest in outhouses.”
Since then, every year on the week-end following Labor Day, Penn’s hosts the Great Outhouse Blowout, in which teams of five people – four pushing and one riding inside – race outhouses mounted on wheels. The event draws about 2,500 spectators.
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Justin Thompson, 19, skateboards at Millennium Park in Danville. The park also features scenic walking paths, a dog park, a fountain and ball fields.
Danville residents all can claim bragging rights for the picturesque
124-acre community park that offers plenty of recreational opportunities.
“Millennium Park is a signature recreation facility that provides for anyone in the family to participate – from the youngest child using the playground or the ballfields to their parents and grandparents who might take advantage of other features, such as walking or picnicking. You can even go fishing at the pond,” says John E. Drake, director of Danville-Boyle County Parks and Recreation. “The park is one of the first three or four things I would show to someone who’s visiting or considering a move to the area.”
Two playgrounds, new hard-surface basketball courts and a bevy of ball-fields – eight soccer fields, four youth base ball diamonds, three adult/girls softball fields and one football field – bring families in droves to play at the park.
In addition, a skate park with quarter pipes, a mini half-pipe, launch and grind boxes and more gets a lot of use by athletes on wheels, including skateboarders, inline skaters and stunt bike riders.
“We also have 3.5 miles of walking trails,” Drake says. A two-mile outer loop interlaced with shorter pathways is perfect for a power walk or scenic stroll. Canine companions can get their exercise, too, at the fenced dog park.
“Even the ducks are a great feature,” Drake adds. “People tell me all the time, ‘Hey, I had my kids out feeding the ducks today.’ Kids love that.”
The site of numerous charity walks and 5K runs, gatherings, events, classes and practices, Millennium Park also serves the needs of community groups.
“It is one of the most successful joint projects I have seen,” Drake says. “Different people were involved from both the city and the county to make it a great community resource.”
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A reconstructed 1790s log cabin is on display at Forkland Abraham Lincoln
and Community Center Museum.
Lincoln’s Roots in Forkland Soil
The Forkland community’s connec-tion to America’s 16th president is a
badge of honor that Forkland folks have long worn with pride. Now that connec-tion is highlighted in a local museum that opened in 2008 in conjunction with the Kentucky Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial celebration.
Lincoln’s maternal grandmother Lucey Shipley Hanks, after marrying her second husband Henry Sparrow, lived in the Forkland area for some 35 years. Her descendants were invited to the gala opening of the Forkland Abraham Lincoln and Community Center Museum on March 1, 2008.
“Many of the 400 guests who attended the event stayed the entire day,” says Wayne Thurman, museum curator. “They were exuberant about meeting extended relations and hearing and telling stories – and many brought materials to share.”
Those materials enhance the col-lection of Lincoln/Hanks-Sparrow artifacts and memorabilia on exhibit.
“We currently have four Frank Lesley newspapers, 1865 originals from New York, which detail [Lincoln’s assas-sination], funeral, etc.,” Thurman explains. “We also have a bronze life mask made from the original 1860 Volk casting currently in the Smithsonian. We have items of local interest as well as genealogical information about many of the families descended from Lucey Hanks.”
Visit www.forklandcomctr.orgfor more information.
– Stories by Carol Cowan
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M orning Glory Manor and Cottage is not your typical Victorian bed and breakfast.
“We have a lot of Middle Eastern-themed décor,” says Lin Walter Bauer, owner and innkeeper of Morning Glory Manor and Cottage. “I did some contract work in Turkey, and our cottage was a great place to put all the things I brought home with me.”
Located along East Lexington Avenue, Morning Glory is a stately white home that has been welcoming guests since 1999. This relaxing retreat is one of
more than half a dozen bed-and-break-fast inns that make their home – and offer a homey place for visitors to stay – in scenic Boyle County.
“Our niche is privacy. We have a small cottage on our property that we rent to visitors, and it was built in 1895 like the house,” Bauer says. “It was a doctor’s office in the 1930s, and several war brides stayed there during World War II.”
Bauer opened the bed-and-breakfast inn with his late wife, Sally, when the couple moved to Danville from Alaska.
“We had lived in Alaska for 25 years,
and we were looking for a comfortable place to retire,” Bauer says. “We traveled the 48 states and thought Danville was the place. The area is beautiful, the people are friendly, and we’re right in the center of family on the East and West coasts and in Texas.”
Morning Glory’s cottage features a queen-size bed, sofa bed, fully stocked kitchen, private bath and living room.
“I welcome babies and pets, and people are very appreciative of that,” Bauer says. “I’ve had guests from Australia, Iceland and Belgium.”
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baked goods, fruit and beverages to the cottage so the guests can eat breakfast at their leisure.
“I love meeting new people, and hearing their stories is fun,” Bauer says. “If they stay a few days, I like to share their experiences.”
Chris Kubale of Danville also offers a private cottage at her rural B&B. She and her late husband, Rube, moved to her family’s Boyle County farm in 1981.
“There’s a two-room cottage in the yard, and we initially renovated it so we would have extra space when our children and grandchildren come to
visit,” Kubale says. “Then we thought it would be fun to have a B&B. We’ve met such delightful people.”
The Cottage Bed and Breakfast’s rental cottage offers a living room, kitchen, sofa bed, queen bed, bath and a deck in the back “with the most colossal view of the full moon you’ll find anywhere,” Kubale says.
She shares the history of her family’s historic farm – which is still a working cattle farm – with guests from as far away as Canada and Hawaii.
Relaxing on a farm allows guests to enjoy the serenity of country living while staying close to Danville’s historic sites, Centre College and entertainment.
“I host a lot of Centre College families, and the Norton Center has marvelous concerts,” Kubale says.
Walnut and Lace Inn attracts visitors who enjoy staying in Danville’s historic district. The circa-1900 home has Classical Revival-style architecture with Roman Ionic columns, and it offers two bed-rooms and a suite.
“It’s very pretty and comfortable, and we have antiques here and there,”
says Norma Schott, owner and innkeeper at Walnut and Lace Inn.
Millicent’s Boudoir is a romantic purple and lavender room with a queen-size bed and an antique fainting couch. The Serendipity Room is decorated with blue and yellow, and it has a picturesque king-size canopy bed and claw-foot tub with a Jacuzzi. The Merlot Suite is decorated in rich burgundy and pale green and accommodates up to four people.
“I’ve met people from all over, and I like to serve hors d’oeuvres in the early evening and sit and talk with them,” Schott says.
Breakfast at Walnut and Lace Inn is always homemade, and it’s one of Schott’s favorite parts of owning a bed and breakfast.
“I love to cook. I make omelets, breakfast casseroles and other dishes, and I always serve dessert,” she says. “People think it’s kind of strange to have dessert with breakfast, but when they eat it, they love it. I make cobblers, apple crisp, a wonderful raspberry tiramisu and blueberry parfaits.”
Left: Walnut and Lace Inn, with two bedrooms and a suite, is in Danville’s historic district. Top: The Cottage Bed & Breakfast offers a quiet retreat.
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Studio la belle Vie’s photographers are, from left, Laura Guerrant, Mary Robin Spoonamore and Wayne Marshall.
A BEAUTIFUL LIFEPartners in business and life,
husband-and-wife team Wayne Marshall and Mary Robin Spoonamore gave their full-service photography business a name that reflects their creative vision.
La belle vie is a French phrase that means “the beautiful life,” and at Studio la belle Vie Boutique of Photographic Arts, Marshall, Spoonamore and partner-in-artistry Laura Guerrant capture the beautiful lives of their clients in artistic family and individual portraits.
“The most successful portraits … consist of a synchronicity of time, emo-tion, physical space, recognition and execution,” Spoonamore says. “Creating this record of what is authentic and universal in human experience is what I like most about what I do.”
The artists also involve their clients in the process.
“We work with a client from start to finish – from the idea or concept through to the finished product,” Marshall says.
In addition to portraits, Studio la
belle Vie does corporate, architecture and wedding photography and produces a line of graphic arts items including purses, cards, invitations and albums. Visit www.studiovie.net to book an appointment or find out more.
IN CASE OF EMERGENCYIn June 2008, the largest independently
owned and operated membership-based air ambulance service in the country opened a base of operations at the Danville-Boyle County Airport. Air Evac Lifeteam expanded to Danville-Boyle County to address the need for medical helicopter service in this growing region.
“We are very pleased to be located in Danville,” says Donald Hare, pro-gram director at the new base. “This is a great addition to the already quality health services in the area. The com-munity support for our base has been just overwhelming.”
Air Evac’s partnership with Ephraim McDowell Health helped bring the company to the area, where its specially outfitted choppers manned by emergency
medical staff serve communities within a 70-mile radius.
“When minutes can mean the differ-ence between life and death, having an air medical service located in close prox-imity to Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center is a major medical service addition for this region of Kentucky,” says Harry Nickens, spokes-man for Ephraim McDowell Health.
FOR THE LOVE OF KIDSCommunity support and love for
young children are the driving forces behind the Wilderness Trace Child Development Center, says Executive Director Linda Singler.
The nonprofit early-intervention agency provides education and speech therapy, occupational and physical therapy to children from birth to 5 years – many of whom have special needs related to conditions such as cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, autism and developmental delay.
“We’ve been open for 32 years – since 1976,” Singler says, “during which time
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Guadalajara Mexican Restaurant has expanded to three Danville locations.
we’ve served more than 565 children with special needs. Our goal is to help these children be able and ready to go on to public school.”
The United Way, government agen-cies, Danville Schools and interested individuals provide the generous support that keeps Wilderness Trace Child Development Center going.
While health-care workers refer some of the center’s students, Singler encourages anyone with a need for services to call Wilderness Trace at (859) 236-0878.
LOOKING GOODLooking for vision care? Doctors
Kimberly and Michael Smith at the Danville Eye Center provide compre-hensive eye care services and co-manage most eye surgeries, including cataracts and LASIK.
Since the June 2008 opening of their new location on the Highway 150 Bypass across from Applebee’s, they now stock racks and racks of eyeglass frames too.
“We have expanded our frame selection, and we’re carrying new fashion lines, such as Dolce and Gabbana,” says Dr. Michael Smith. In fact, Danville Eye Center is one of only seven Kentucky locations licensed to offer the exclusive designer brand. “We also have a selection of more than 100 sunglasses, so there’s plenty to choose from,” he adds.
Both doctors graduated from the Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tenn., and received additional training at Commonwealth Eye Surgery in Lexington.
The husband-wife optometry team has been working in Danville since taking over the practice of Dr. Avery Hill upon his retirement in 2004.
A LOCAL FAVORITEThere’s a popular new dish on the
menu at Guadalajara Mexican Restaurant. The Danville Special – strips of grilled chicken on a bed of rice, smothered in Guadalajara’s signature cheese-dip sauce – joins sizzling fajitas and crisp chimichangas on the list of this locally owned restaurant’s most popular dishes.
The first Guadalajara Mexican Restaurant opened on Hustonville Road in 1995. The family-friendly restaurant was a big hit with Danville folks – so much so that a second location opened on Jane Trail in 2001, and a third opened on Perryville Road in 2006. – Carol Cowan
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A growing, diversified workforce is high on the wish list of any economic-development organi-
zation. By taking its past successes and exploring new employment areas and programs, the Danville/Boyle County Chamber of Commerce is making that wish come true.
At the request of members who were having difficulty finding qualified appli-cants for their growing businesses, the chamber targeted workforce develop-ment two years ago.
“There was also concern for the community’s ability to compete effec-tively for new commercial and/or manufacturing businesses if the local labor pool could not support the quantity and quality of job skills needed,” says Steve Rinehart, the chamber’s co-chair of the workforce development committee.
The chamber allied itself with various organizations in the region, with special emphasis on educational institutions and school systems.
In addition to ensuring that training opportunities for rising high-school seniors on up through displaced workers were available, the committee also turned its attention to the educational
institutions themselves. First, a Business-Education Exchange was held in November 2007, and then a Teacher Academy was created in June 2008.
During the exchange, 15 school administrators, counselors and teachers spent half a day at area businesses, and business professionals visited schools. The idea was to create awareness of the others’ challenges – and it was a success.
“From the experiences and feed-back of the participants, a number of strategies were identified to increase collaboration and information sharing by employers with middle-school and high-school teachers and students,” Rinehart says.
The Teacher Academy had 16 teachers spend at least half a day in four different businesses around the community. The goal was to have them learn not only the jobs, but also the skills required to obtain and keep them. Follow-up e-mails will be used to collect and share examples of how teachers used the information – and the contacts they made – during the school year.
Both programs will be repeated, Rinehart says, adding that the committee also has successfully collected information
from area job-assistance agencies and schools. The information has been compiled into a brochure that’s meant to be a “one-stop shop” for contact infor-mation, services, training and job-skills certification available in Danville and Boyle County.
In addition, a workforce development forum was held recently by the chamber in cooperation with the Kentucky Association of Manufacturers, the Kentucky School Boards Association, and Chambers of Commerce and eco-nomic-development entities in Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Mercer and Lincoln counties.
This forum also increased awareness of the current and future workforce job skills shortage, and it sought support for local, regional and statewide efforts to address the causes and solutions, Rinehart says.
“Since the employers – large and small – in each of the five counties employ residents from each of the other counties, the committee plans to promote regional cooperation and collaboration to address common workforce devel-opment issues,” he says.
– Joe Morris
Focusing on the WorkforceCHAMBER TEAMS WITH BUSINESSES AND EDUCATORS TO IMPROVE JOB SKILLS
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With a long and storied history of helping people with special needs, it would be easy for the Kentucky School for the Deaf to rest on its laurels.
But with new classroom technology and constant innovations in audio devices for the hearing impaired, the institution is busier than ever.
Founded in April 1823 as the Kentucky Asylum for the Tuition of the Deaf and Dumb, the institution was the first state-supported school of its kind in the country. The school still sits on its 166 acres near downtown Danville, and its buildings include facilities built in the 1960s and 1970s all the way back to the oldest surviving building on campus – Jacobs Hall, built in 1857.
The school has requested funding for some exterior work and has increased the display area and added more features to the exhibits. The museum now encompasses three floors of the building, says Bill Melton, campus administrator.
A master plan established in 2004 recommends that the campus be reduced in size, with the destruction or sale of some buildings and the construction of a new, $6.5 million elementary school. While that’s being debated, the school continues to look forward while always being aware of its
history, says counselor Evie Smith.“The Kentucky School for the Deaf has an illustrious
history of providing education to deaf and hard-of-hearing students throughout Kentucky, thereby helping them reach their potential as productive citizens,” Smith says. “KSD offers students an environment in which they have full access to information through sign language and written English.”
The campus is utilizing advanced technology – including videophones in the classrooms, offices and dorms – that helps the students overcome communication barriers. The phones, from Sorenson Communications, were provided at no cost due to federal legislation, and as of September 2008 the campus had 49 of them, says Technology Director Deby Trueblood.
The school also has a videoconferencing project in the works, having received $500,000 in Tandberg equipment that will incorporate conferencing into instruction.
“There is much research showing that videoconferencing equipment is a technology that will be extremely successful in educating deaf children,” Trueblood says. “This opens them up to so many more deaf and hard-of-hearing people with whom they can socialize, in addition to all of the virtual field trips and experts.” – Joe Morris
Tradition Meets TechnologyKENTUCKY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ADDS VIDEOPHONES, OTHER INNOVATIONS
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Seven years ago, Linda Alexander gave up the craziness and perpetual traffic jams of the
Washington, D.C., area for what she thought was a little slice of heaven – a home on Herrington Lake in Boyle County.
Life on the water was as scenic as it was serene – the perfect antidote for the big city Alexander had left behind. And then one night it rained. A lot.
She awoke in the morning to the sound of her dog barking out a warning
in her backyard, which runs right into the lake. To her horror, the heavy rain had washed up a garbage dump and deposited it at her back door.
“It was a nightmare,” Alexander recalls. “Junk was everywhere. Big chunks of Styrofoam, old life preservers, bleach bottles. There were three or four old boat docks that had come undone just floating around, and a big piece of Styrofoam with a tree growing out of it.”
Alexander soon learned about a
group of concerned Herrington Lake residents who had already started to grow restless over the problem. They formed the Herrington Lake Conservation League, and Alexander became its president. The first order of business was to clean up the lake.
With the help of Kentucky Utilities, which owns the 36-mile long, 2,335-acre lake, the HLCL got busy. KU provided back loaders and trash bins, and Herrington Lake residents contributed their own chain saws and pontoon boats. They collected mountains of Styrofoam, which had come from old boat docks built along the 81-year-old lake, tons of other assorted garbage and more than 1,500 tires.
The HLCL then hired a full-time crew to patrol the lake and pluck any new debris from the water.
The result? Well, Alexander has her little piece of
heaven back, as do hundreds of other lakeside residents.
“The lake is a totally different place,” Alexander said. “Pristine. We’re officially in maintenance mode.”
That’s good news for boaters, skiers and fishermen.
“It’s a very scenic lake,” says Lee McClellan, associate editor for Kentucky Afield magazine. “They did a yeoman’s job reclaiming it for people who love to be on the water.”
That includes f ishermen, and Herrington Lake offers some of the best fishing in the state, says Kentucky fisheries biologist Jeff Crosby.
“It’s a very fertile lake,” Crosby says. “It’s a very good bass fishery – largemouth and spotted bass are pretty common. There’s white bass, and we also stock striped bass. The potential there is great. It can be a difficult lake to fish because it’s so deep, but once you figure it out, you can have a quality experience.”
– Chris Dortch
A Little Slice of HeavenCLEAN-UP EFFORT RESTORES HERRINGTON LAKE’S SCENIC BEAUTY
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Ephraim McDowell’s name is big in Danville, and for good reason. In addition to his best-known
claim to fame – performing the first successful removal of an ovarian tumor 200 years ago – the pioneering surgeon helped craft the first Kentucky consti-tution, helped found Centre College and helped the region in many other ways.
But even Dr. McDowell couldn’t have imagined just how vast the medical center named for him would become.
The Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center has evolved into a multi-discipline hub for health care, with more than 30 specialties and subspecialties, more than 100 physicians with privileges and cutting-edge technology that’s con-tinually being updated and adapted to meet changing needs.
“It is the legacy of Dr. McDowell that inspires the mission of Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center in its service to the community,” says Harry Nickens, director of community relations for
the hospital.What began as a 25-bed facility has
grown in size and scope, adding such vital components as a surgery wing, modernized laboratory, X-ray facility, delivery room and nursery. By 1952, the hospital had a fully equipped emergency room, and by the early 1960s it had added a new obstetrical unit and could house 120 patients. The four-story Johnson Tower, funded in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Trust, opened in 1978 and grew by two more floors in 1986. The tower houses the women’s health unit, an enlarged ICU/CCU department and a 20-bed mental health unit, growing the hospital’s overall capacity to 177 beds.
The medical center’s newest addition is its South Wing, which opened in December 2008 and takes the facility to a whole new level, Nickens says.
“This 74,000-square-foot addition houses an expanded critical-care services unit and an expanded women’s health unit with LDRP – or labor, delivery,
recovery and postpartum rooms – all of which have contemporary furnishings and equipment,” he says.
Futhermore, Johnson Tower’s fifth and sixth f loors will be modernized over the next two years. The sixth floor will become an orthopedics and spine center, while the fifth f loor will contain private patient rooms.
That’s quite a list of additions and improvements, but even more improve-ments are on the drawing board for this busy medical center.
“Going forward, [we are] concen-trating efforts toward providing more convenient access to air medical ser-vice by having a helipad in immediate proximity to the medical center,” Nickens says. “Also at the center of attention is the addition of physician specialties that are not now represented, including staffing a hospitalist to provide full-time attention to patients once they are admitted.”
– Joe Morris
Always Moving ForwardMcDOWELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER CONTINUES TO ADD SPACE AND SERVICES
The medical center’s newest expansion houses an enlarged critical-care services unit and women’s health unit.
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Comprehensive Cancer TreatmentCENTER EMPHASIZES CONVENIENCE
Continuing its efforts to offer convenient
cancer-treatment services, Commonwealth
Cancer Center is embarking on construction of
a new $4 million facility.
“It’s going to encompass a total, comprehensive
approach,” says Mark Allen, practice administrator.
“Commonwealth’s mission is to keep the patients
in their own community, keep them from having to
drive to other areas. The other motivating factor is
to be able to bring additional services here that the
patients need.”
The center is the brainchild of Dr. Thomas
Baeker, who opened the original complex 14 years
ago and has seen it grow to a point where more
room is needed to ensure quality service.
“Our office was built for one physician, and
we now have two,” Allen says. “And at our current
location we are landlocked with no real room to
grow the space.”
Baeker – who serves on the board of directors
for the Central Kentucky Cancer Program at
Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center –
wanted a new center that would complement
services already available locally, rather than
be seen as a competitor, Allen adds.
“Ephraim McDowell is a key player in this
new center, because we want to bring services in
that other providers don’t have now, like physical
therapy, rehab services, clinical lab services, maybe
some diagnostics, that patients can come to us to
get,” he says. “We’re not going to add any services
that will compete with the hospital or other
medical providers in town. We’re about adding
complementary services so that providers
throughout the area can send their patients
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When Col. Eben C. Henson launched Pioneer Playhouse in 1950, it was the beginning of some thing much larger than a local theater.
More than a half-century later, the Pioneer is the oldest outdoor theater in Kentucky, and it has been a stopping point for the likes of John Travolta, Lee Majors, Jim Varney and many other stars. The theater was a hit from the get-go, becoming “King of Summer Stocks” in the 1950s and 1960s. The venerable playhouse was named Kentucky’s state theater in 1962 by an act of legislation.
The Pioneer has also been home to a drama school and the first Governor’s School of the Arts in Kentucky. These days, the second generation of Hensons operates the theater, traveling to New York every spring to recruit new talent and a fresh crop of interns. For Holly Henson, daughter of Eben and Charlotte Henson, it has been a pretty neat place to grow up – and to work.
“As a child I thought everybody had a playhouse, and come to find out there are only about 20 or so left in America,” says Henson, who has a successful comedy career and serves as the artistic director for the playhouse. “This is a pretty rare and special environment.”
The playhouse puts on a five-show season, with each production lasting two weeks in rotation. In addition to well-
known shows, the Hensons try to introduce a little local f lair from time to time. To that end, Henson is working on a new play about Ephraim McDowell, the famed physician for whom Danville’s medical center is named.
The playhouse drew around 10,000 visitors last year, and it’s in the midst of a major renovation and renewal campaign. The goal throughout has been to modernize as much as possible while preserving the facility’s unique ambiance.
“It’s so grassroots, so mom and pop,” Henson says. “You get a ‘from the heart’ feeling here that you’re only going to get from an underdog, and that’s just charming. In the world of cookie-cutter productions, we’re an authentic Kentucky expe-rience with a lot of charm.”
The playhouse is going after $2 million in grant funds to rebuild the playhouse, and another $2 million for an endow-ment. It has already received some money from various sources in the state and now has insulated and air-conditioned the indoor theater, which had gone 59 years without those basics. Since it’s the go-to venue during bad weather, that was a big deal, Henson says.
“We’ve already redone the stairs,” she says. “Now we want to buy more chairs to improve the amphitheater.”
– Joe Morris
John Travolta Acted HereAFTER MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY, PIONEER PLAYHOUSE STILL DRAWS CROWDS
Pioneer Playhouse actors perform in an original play about the filming of the movie Raintree County in Danville.
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