Congratulations to Mrs. Ballard, a Kentuckian coming home.
Congratulations to Mr. Blondell, a Kentuckian moving on.
Congratulations to Ms. Caldwell, a Kentuckian (by homestead) staying put.
Saying goodbye to Glasgow High (forever to this building).
Kentucky agriculture is getting a lot of love these days, and, per Kentucky Agriculture Report, her are the field's 10 most valuable players.
Some day, I need to become more fluent in the varieties of potatoes.
UK's baseball team plays Mississippi State (again) in the semifinals of the SEC tournament at noon Central today.
ReplyDeleteGO, ERIC QUIGLEY!
ReplyDeleteDukeTennis @DukeTennis
Quigley breaks serve late to take the first set against Cunha, 6-4. #goduke #NCAAMWT
11:46 AM - 26 May 12
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
ReplyDeleteKentucky Mens Tennis @UKMensTennis
Eric Quigley has fought off the break to win four consecutive games and is now serving for the match. #NCAAMWT
YESSSSSSS! My main man from Pewee Valley, Eric Quigley, had beaten some dude from Duke, 6-4 and 6-3, to advance to the semifinals of the NCAA men's tennis tournament! He trailed the second set, 3-1
ReplyDeleteAround the house, I've started referring to him as "Quigs."
Baseball Wildcats lose, 2-1, to Mississippi State, and now they'll await NCAA-tournament news.
ReplyDeleteQuigs and his doubles partner are now about to face the nation's No. 1 tandem.
GO, QUIGS!
ReplyDeleteUK's Eric Quigley of Pewee Valley plays Blaz Rola of Ohio State in the NCAA-tournament semifinals at 12:30 p.m. Central today. This match pits the nation's No. 3 and 9 players, respectively. (Rola upset No. 2 Mitchell Frank of Virginia yesterday.) The other semi pits No. 1 Steve Johnson of Southern California and 2010 champ Bradley Klahn of Stanford.
Quigs lost the first set, 6-2, to Ohio State's Rola, but then my main man from Pewee Valley stormed back to win the second, 6-1.
ReplyDeleteThe third set is underway at Henry Feild Courts at the University of Georgia. Rola has taken the first game, and now Quigs is serving in Game 2 ...
QUIGS! 1-1 in the deciding, third set ...
ReplyDeleteRola holds serve. He's up in the third set, two games to one.
ReplyDeletePewee Valley was the site of the Kentucky Confederate Home.
ReplyDelete"Almost a thousand men ... lived out their final days in the Kentucky Confederate Home," Rusty Williams wrote in the Spring 2010 Kentucky Humanities magazine. "The home was unique in Kentucky's history, a benevolent institution built and managed by Confederate veterans and sympathizers. For more than three decades its operating costs were paid by a generous state government that had never been part of the Southern Confederacy. Largely forgotten today, the Kentucky Confederate Home operated well into the twentieth century."
QUIGS HOLDS, TOO: 2-2!
ReplyDeleteRola, 3-2.
ReplyDeleteQUIGS HOLDS, refusing to yield even a point to Rola in the sixth game and closing with an ace! It's 3-3 in the third and deciding set of this NCAA semifinal.
ReplyDeletePewee Valley is in Oldham County.
ReplyDelete30-30.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to being the home of the Kentucky Veterans Home and the state's Confederate Cemetery, Oldham County was also the home of D.W. Griffith, the producer of Birth of a Nation.
ReplyDelete4-3, Rola.
ReplyDeleteQUIGS, 4-4!
ReplyDeleteRola, 5-4.
ReplyDelete> We meet upon the Level and we part upon the Square.
ReplyDelete> What words of precious meaning, those words Masonic are!
> Come, let us contemplate them! They are worthy of a thought;
> In the very walls of Masonry the sentiment is wrought.
>
> We meet upon the Level, though from every station come,
> The rich man from his palace and the poor man from his home;
> For the rich must leave his wealth and state outside the Mason's door,
> And the poor man finds his best respect upon the Checkered Floor.
>
> We act upon the Plumb - 'tis the orders of our Guide.
> We walk upright in virtue's way and lean to neither side;
> The All-Seeing Eye that reads our hearts doth bear us witness true
> That we still try to honor God and give each man his due.
>
> We part upon the Square, for the world must have its due;
> We mingle with the multitude, a faithful band and true.
> But the influence of our gatherings in memory is green,
> And we long upon the Level to renew the happy scene.
>
> There's a world where all are equal - we are hurrying toward it fast,
> We shall meet upon the Level there when the gates of Death are past;
> We shall stand before the Orient, and our Master will be there
> To try the blocks we offer with His own unerring Square.
>
> We shall meet upon the Level there, but never thence depart.
> There's a Mansion - 'tis all ready for each trusting, faithful heart.
> There's a Mansion, and a welcome, and a multitude is there
> Who have met upon the Level and been tried upon the Square.
>
> Let us meet upon the Level, then while laboring patient here;
> Let us meet and let us labor, though the labor be severe;
> Already in the Western sky the signs bid us prepare
> To gather up our Working Tools and part upon the Square.
>
> Hands round, ye faithful Brotherhood, the bright fraternal Chain.
> We part upon the Square below to meet in Heaven again!
> What words of precious meaning, those words Masonic are --
> We meet upon the Level and we part upon the square.
5-5! GO, QUIGS! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
ReplyDeleteThe poem, 1854's "The Level and the Square," was written by Rob Morris, founder of the Order of the Eastern Star and the poet laureate of Masonry. Some reports also have him being an Oldham Countian.
ReplyDelete6-5, Rola.
ReplyDeleteYES! QUIGS! 6-6. We'll have a tiebreaker for the match!
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ReplyDeleteRola 0
Quigley 2
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Quigley 2
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Quigley 3
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Quigley 4
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QUIGS ACE!
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Quigley 6
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QUIGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYEAH, BABY!
ReplyDeleteOn to the national championship for Eric Quigley of Pewee Valley: 2-6, 6-1, 7-6 win over Rola of Ohio State in the semis!
ReplyDeleteAlso from Pewee Valley:
ReplyDeleteAnnie Fellows Johnston, a celebrated author of children's and juvenile fiction from the 1890's until her death in 1931, is best known for her "Little Colonel" series, a semi biographical opus of 13 novels dealing with the aristocracy of old Kentucky, particularly the story of a young girl, who came to be known as "The Little Colonel." Her works sold millions of copies, and were translated into over 40 languages, including Japanese.
NCAA tennis final: No. 3 Eric Quigley of UK vs. No. 1 Steve Johnson of Southern Cal at 11 a.m. Central Monday.
ReplyDeleteThe victory for Quigley in the semifinals moves him into the finals for the first time in his career and only the third time in school history. The UK star joins fellow All-Americans Jesse Witten and Carlos Drada as the only players to advance to the finals of the singles event. Witten was the last to claim the feat, making the finals of the event in 2002, while Drada made the finals in 2000. Witten and Drada both lost in the finals. Kentucky players are now 3-0 all-time in the NCAA Singles Semifinals.