Now that I have a new website (which will eventually have lots of bells and whistles), I’ll be using this site for my blog, A COUNTRY BOY CAN SURMISE. I hope to update the blog more often than I have in the past, with random ramblings pretty often with an occasional long essay like I’ve always done on my blogsite. For now I’m going to paste in old blog posts, so I hope you will enjoy them.
I’m writing this from the Gathering of Writers at Greenbo State Park in Greenbo, Kentucky. We’re staying in the Jesse Stuart Lodge. Stuart is one of Kentucky’s most beloved writers, and was definitely one of its most popular (very few writers get a hotel named after them in America, much less in Kentucky). At the height of his popularity he even appeared on the national television show “This Is Your Life.” He is the author of many beautiful books including TREES OF HEAVEN and DAUGHTER OF THE LEGEND. The Gathering is aptly named because it’s a gathering of really great people who have all come together to trade stories, songs, and good spirits. Greenbo is a beautiful place of lush mountains and good trees (all trees are good, of course, but some are better than others–more powerful than others) and this is a good place to be with good people.
