Fall 2011 - Department Of History

Fall 2011
Boone’s Dispatch
Eastern Kentucky University’s Department of History Annual Newsletter
A Few Words from History Department Chair
Dr. Christiane Taylor
E
very week encompasses
numerous
occurrences
that reinforce the pride and
privilege I feel in being part of
the EKU History Department.
On Monday, Ogechi Anyanwu,
our recently tenured and
promoted
Africanist,
came
into my office and handed me
a copy of his new book, The
Politics of Access: University
Education and Nation-Building
in Nigeria, 1948-2000 and on
the way out the door reminded
me that his co-authored work
with Salome Nnoromele, EKU’s
Director of African/AfricanAmerican Studies would appear
in December. On Tuesday, our
double history/political majors
Mikeal Byerly and Korey Bruck
stopped me after our class on U.S.
immigration history to discuss
their experiences taking the
LSATS. Later that afternoon, our
history major, Hayley Powell,
who is doing an internship at
Whitehall this semester, stopped
by my office to show me photos
of the display she created for the
30th anniversary of Whitehall’s
opening as a state historic site and
to report on her first weekend as
a site tour guide. On Wednesday,
I presided over a department
meeting at which my colleagues
spent two hours in thoughtful
and fruitful discussion of three
proposals designed to better
prepare our majors by adding
further rigor to our already
demanding program. Thursday
saw me driving to Murray State
with two of our M.A. students,
Dustin Hill and Neil Kasiak,
who were presenting papers at
the annual Ohio Valley History
Conference (OVHC). While I
drove westward, Jennifer Spock,
our Russianist who was recently
promoted to Professor, and
David Blaylock, our Asianist and
Japanese specialist were on their
way to Ohio State University to
attend the conferences that they
had helped plan and organize.
While Dustin and Neil were
receiving high praise for the their
well-researched and presented
papers from OVHC attendees on
Saturday morning, three of my
colleagues were approaching
the finish line of the 200 mile
Bourbon Chase as members of
a running team aptly named
“Intellectual Pursuits.” It was
just another week in the History
department – a week full of
events that made me proud of
my colleagues and our students.
Christiane Taylor
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Faculty Updates
Ogechi E. Anyanwu was recently
tenured and promoted to associate
professor of history.
His recent scholarly
accomplishments
include the release
of
his
book,
The Politics of
Access: University
Education
and
Nation Building in Nigeria, 19482000, published by the University
of Calgary Press in 2011, and coediting a forthcoming book, (Re)
tracing Africa: A Multi-disciplinary
Study of African History, Societies,
and Cultures. His recent article,
“The
Anglo-American-Nigerian
Collaboration in Nigeria’s Higher
Education Reform: The Cold
War and Decolonization, 19481960,” appeared in the Journal of
Colonialism and Colonial History
11, no.3 (Winter 2010): 1-26. He was
the recipient of the 2010-11 College
of Arts and Sciences’ Excellence in
Research and Creative Activities
Award. He is currently working
on a book manuscript focusing on
how the colonial history of Mbano,
an area in southeastern region of
Nigeria, fits into our understanding
of the larger political economy of the
twentieth century and some of the
major events that shaped it such as
imperialism, the Great Depression,
the two world wars, nationalism,
and the decolonization in Africa.
Tom
Appleton
has
been
named coordinator of EKU’s
observance of the
sesquicentennial
of the Civil War.
During the 201213
academic
year a number of
EKU departments
and
programs,
including History, will be offering
special courses, exhibits, and
speakers to commemorate the
war and its legacy. Tom recently
published book reviews in the
Journal of American History, the
Journal of Southern History, and
the Military History of the West
as well as a short research note
in the April 2011 issue of AHA
Perspectives. During the summer
he spent two weeks traveling in the
Republic of Ireland and Northern
Ireland.
David Blaylock was a co-organizer
of the conference “Science,
Technology,
and
Medicine in East
Asia: Policy, Practice,
and Implications in
a Global Context”
in honor of his
Ph.D. advisor James
Bartholomew at Ohio
State October 7-9 of this year.
John Bowes is enjoying the return
of Fall and the cooler weather it
brings. This past
year was devoted
once again to
finding the time
to research and
write his book
manuscript
on
northern Indian
removal. But perhaps the two most
important events of the past ten
months were first, celebrating the
birth of his second daughter Reese
and second, successfully receiving
tenure and promotion. Among
other future engagements, John is
excited to be one of the speakers
in EKU’s 2011-2012 Chautauqua
Lecture series. His talk, titled
“Living with American Indians
and American Indian History”
will be the keynote address for
November’s commemoration of
Native American heritage month.
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Faculty Updates
David Coleman recently returned
from the Sixteenth Century
Studies Conference
in Fort Worth
Texas, where he
presented a paper
titled
”Genoese
and
Castilian
Ideals of ‘Liberty’
in
the
1516
Málaga Rebellion.” He has also
recently had an article on piracy
and corsair raiding in the Straits of
Gibraltar in the years around 1500
accepted for publication sometime
next year in the journal Medieval
Encounters. He will be taking
some time away from EKU this
coming March-May 2012 to teach
a course titled “ Art and Science in
the Renaissance” at Underwood
International Honors College of
Yonsei University in Seoul, South
Korea—a course he is hoping to
teach subsequently for EKU’s
Honors Program.
Carloyn Dupont has a contract
with NYU Press for her upcoming
book, Mississippi
P r a y i n g :
Southern White
Evangelicals and
the Quest for
Black Equality,
1945-1975, which
she expects to see
in print soon. She also presented a
paper titled “Challenging Southern
Exceptionalism:
Hattiesburg,
Mississippi, Central Illinois, and
Race” at the recent Southern
Historical Association Conference
in Baltimore.
Todd Hartch is teaching three
writing intensive courses this
semester, which requires a fair
amount of time
for grading, but
he thinks that
the process is
worthwhile. “I’ve
taught
history
now for about
ten years, and
I’m increasingly convinced that
writing is the best single way for
students to learn. It’s not just a
matter of improving a technique
or learning grammatical rules—
the writing of a research paper
requires a deeper and more
profound sort of learning than
anything else we do in the
classroom. Students will forget
most of what we say in class and
most of what they read, but they’ll
remember what they research
and write about.” Outside of the
classroom Dr. Hartch is working
on books on social critic Ivan
Illich and on the transformation
of Christianity in Latin America
since 1960.
Jackie Jay continues to enjoy
being one of the faculty sponsors of
the History Club,
along with her
partner-in-crime
Dr. Stearn. The
paint on the walls
of the new student
lab seems to be
sticking!
This
fall, she’s teaching
a new course on the ancient
Near East, and looks forward to
teaching ancient Egypt again in
the spring. The big project on
the horizon is the preparation of a
monograph for Brill, provisionally
entitled Orality and Literacy in
the Demotic Tales.
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Faculty Updates
Jennifer Spock has had a busy but
rewarding year. She was pleased
to be promoted to
Professor in late
spring of 2011.
Her article “The
Parfiev
Family:
Northern
Free
Peasants,”
a
prosopographical
study of the types of experiences
encountered by northern peasant
families in Russia, appeared in
Portraits of Old Russia: Imagined
Lives of Ordinary People 13001725 this past spring. She and
her co-editors have just given
final approval to the publishers
for a collection of articles that
will be forthcoming in midNovember 2011: Religion and
Identity in Russia and the Soviet
Union: A Festschrift for Paul
Bushkovitch. She is pleased to
have an article in that collection
titled “Giving Voice to the
Voiceless: Expressions of NonElite Identity and Perspectives in
Pre-Petrine Russia.” Finally, one
of her articles has been accepted
for inclusion in a special edition
of Russian History that will focus
on monasticism: “Administering
a Right Life: Secular and Spiritual
Guidance at Solovki Monastery
in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries.” Besides publications,
Jenn continues her work as
president of the Association for the
Study of Eastern Christian History
and Culture, which just had its
fourth bi-ennial conference at
Ohio State University in October.
She also continues to enjoy her
teaching responsibilities at EKU,
and has added to her list of fun
things to do, occasional attendance
at the concerts at EKU’s new
performing arts center.
Cat Stearn presented two
conference papers over the past
year, the first at
the 2010 Sixteenth
Century Studies
Conference
in
Montreal, and the
second at a regional
conference of the
Costume Society
of America, which was much
closer to home—at Shaker village
here in Kentucky. This conference
also involved a dinner cruise on the
Kentucky River which, she reports,
was especially fun, since many of
the conference participants dressed
in period costume ranging from
the early nineteenth-century to the
1940s (Dr. Stearn simply dressed
as a history professor from 2011—
very unoriginal!). The highlight
of her publication achievements
for this past year came when she
received notice from The Sidney
Journal that they have accepted
for publication her article on Lady
Mary Sidney and her relationship
with Elizabeth I. This fall, she
is teaching two sections of
World Civ. to 1500 along with
an upper division on Women in
European History to 1800. In the
spring she is looking forward to
team-teaching three sections of
Honors Civilization again with
her talented colleague Jackie Jay,
in addition to an upper division
class on English History to 1603.
She and Dr. Jay also continue as
co-faculty advisors for the EKU
History Club.
Christiane Taylor has expanded
her administrative role beyond
serving
as
department chair.
She continues to
head the Social
and
Behavior
Sciences’ group
charged
with
how the Social
Sciences will meet state-mandate
literacy and content standards in
their general education classes.
As of August, she became the
Chair of the Chairs’ Association.
In that role she meets with the
Provost monthly to discuss issues
of concern to department chairs,
serves on the Provost Council and
University Diversity Committee,
and has just been appointed to the
Eastern Initiative, which is charged
with improving the university’s
admission, advising and financial
aid systems .
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Faculty Updates
Rob Weise’s article, “A New
Deal in the Cold War: Carl D.
Perkins,
Coal,
and the Political
Economy
of
Poverty in Eastern
Kentucky, 1948 –
1964,” published
in the fall of 2010,
was awarded the
Richard H. Collins award from
the Register of the Kentucky
Historical Society, for best piece
published each year in that journal.
Meanwhile, Prof. Weise spent
most of the 2010-2011 academic
year organizing the program
for the 2011 conference of the
Appalachian Studies Association.
The Conference brought about
800 people in 110 sessions to EKU
and was a smash hit.
Bradford Wood is wrapping up
some of the same research projects
he
has
been
working on for the
past few years. He
is waiting for the
publication of his
edited volume of
the letters of North
Carolina colonist
James Murray, and he is finishing
up the co-editing of a collection of
essays about the Carolinas in the
early eighteenth century. This fall
he has been teaching in Honors Civ
and the graduate historiography
course, but he is excited to return
to teaching a lot more early
American history. In Spring 2012,
he has also been invited to present
scholarship in North Carolina and
in Nova Scotia.
Mina Yazadini: After a long
wait, on March 2nd, 2011, Mina
Yazdani finally
received
her
H1B visa, which
allowed her to
enter the U.S.
and start work at
EKU. Arriving
in the middle of
the semester, she took over the
two sections of HIS 247 which
Professor Anyanwu taught in
her absence (She is thankful to
Professor Anyanwu!). She also
started her eight-week intensive
upper division course. She found
that first semester hectic and
short, but also exciting--full of
learning, meeting new colleagues
and students, and acclimating to
beautiful Richmond. She spent
the summer in Canada where she
co-organized, together with her
former advisor, an international
academic
conference,
titled
“Intellectual Othering and the
Baha’i Question in Iran,” at
the University of Toronto. This
semester, she is enjoying teaching
her first graduate course. In late
October, she served on a panel
following the premiere of the
documentary “Education under
Fire” at Columbia University. She
is now preparing for the annual
meeting of the Middle Eastern
Studies Association (MESA)
in December where she will be
presenting a paper. Meanwhile,
she remains busy preparing
two papers for publication and
researching material for invited
entries in Encyclopaedia Iranica
and Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam
and Women.
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History Day Competition
March 2011
I
n March 2011, for the third consecutive
year, EKU hosted the district event for
Kentucky’s National History
Day competition.
Middle
and high school students from
Rockcastle and Clark counties
presented posters, websites,
plays, and formal papers that
discussed and analyzed a
variety of historical events
based on the theme, “Debate
and Diplomacy in History”.
Members of our faculty along
with several of our graduate
students served as judges for the contest.
The winners at EKU went on to the statewide
competition and our district
helped contribute to the total of
55 students from Kentucky who
traveled to the national contest
at College Park, MD, in June.
We are looking forward to
hosting the district competition
once again in March 2012.
Congratulations ...
Matt Thacker
who besides being a
history major is a McNair Scholar, Phi
Alpha Theta member, and EKU VETS
co-founder. He is
presenting at the
2012 Biennial national Phi Alpha
Theta
Convention
Jan 3-7 in Orlando,
Florida. The title of his presentation,
which was done under the supervision
of Carolyn Dupont
and John Bowes, is
“Catholicism and the
Cold War: Fulton J.
Sheen’s Integration
of Catholicism as an
American Religion.
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History Club Update
History Club had an exciting
year last year: in the fall of
2010, Dr. Stearn, Dr. Jay, and
a group of students painted
the new student lab space in
Keith 341 (with the expert
supervision of Dr. Taylor!).
In the spring, we travelled to
Cincinnati to see the exhibit
Cleopatra: Search for the
Last Queen of Egypt. This
fall, our field trips were to the
University of Louisville to see
an exhibit on the Holocaust
and to the Waveland historical
site in Lexington.
Several of our most active
members graduated last
spring, including three of our
intrepid painters (Chasity
Hunt, Luke Morgan, and
Andrea McQueen). Although
we miss our graduates (and
would love to hear from
you), our meetings continue
to be well-attended, in no
small part because of the new
History Club Facebook page
launched and maintained by
Emily Knight. Look for us
there!
Student Lab
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Catching up with...
Michael (Mick) Lewis,
Professor Emeritus
1. How are you staying busy in retirement?
During my teaching career at EKU, I was fortunate enough to do a great deal of traveling
on grants and fellowships. In retirement, I have been fortunate again to travel a good
deal, this time in the company of my wife, Claudia. We have spent a month abroad once
or twice during each of the last several years, concentrating on France and the British
Isles. We exchange our home in Sarasota, Florida, with couples from Europe and we
have made great friends by means of these exchanges. I hope we can continue to do this as long as we are able.
Claudia has also been encouraging me to teach again. There is in Sarasota an institution for adult learning, the classically
named Pierian Spring Academy. The students are largely retired professionals who have an interest in a wide variety of
subjects and the Academy allows them to exploit these interests. I have talked with the Dean of the Faculty and they are
currently offering nothing on the Middle East, a subject that should prove attractive to the local adult population. I may
offer something next year. Claudia wants to make sure I don’t get bored.
Otherwise, I spend much time reading (mostly fiction, some history and philosophy) and taking my 94 year old mother out
for occasional shopping forays. I do try to stay abreast of what is happening in the world and more specifically the Middle
East. Occasionally I still make presentations before church and civic groups.
2. What do you miss most, and least, about teaching at EKU?
Without question what I miss most about teaching at EKU is the interaction with the students, the play of question and
answer in both directions in the classroom. I have always been attuned to the economist Kenneth Boulding’s notion that
knowledge grows in the very act of giving it away.
3. Is there a favorite memory or two of your faculty colleagues and/or students that stands out as emblematic
of your work in the EKU History Department?
I loved team teaching in the honors program with Bruce MacLaren, Dave Coleman, Jenn Spock, and others. When Jenn
first came to the department, her office was across the hall from mine, and I always enjoyed her coming to me with what
she called “la question du jour.” I always valued time spent with Tom Appleton, Brad Wood, and the late, great Jim Webb.
A week does not go by without my thinking about something he said to me, always something memorable and important.
My memories of students are so many and so grand that I dare not mention one or two or a dozen for fear of leaving out
the best and brightest. I would be remiss, however, if I did not name my student and friend, Lorin “Rocky” Rockwell, a
33-year veteran of the Air Force who earned a degree in history at the age of 70 and delivered the commencement address
at his graduation. I have been proud of many students, but his achievement was a wonder to behold.
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Catching up with...
Nancy & Gene Forderhase,
Professors Emeriti
1. How are you staying busy in retirement?
We have been retired for twelve years. And
yes, there is life after retirement. We’ve
spent two three-month periods in Sitka,
Alaska, volunteering at a little college there.
We’ve also worked as volunteer desk clerks
at a convention center/B&B in Santa Fe,
New Mexico. Both locations are among the
most beautiful in the United States, and we
feel lucky to have had those opportunities.
We traveled to Ireland and Scotland; Nancy
toured Russia; we have visited a number of
National Parks and recently started spending
our winters in Naples, FL near our grandchildren. In the meantime, Gene hikes (Red River Gorge, Grand Canyon
and elsewhere), swims and exercises a lot more than he used to. Lazy Nancy exercises when the spirit moves
her, continues to read constantly and enjoys her friends and the warm weather in Naples.
2. What do you miss most, and least, about teaching at EKU?
We miss our interactions with colleagues and so many fine students in our classes. Neither of us miss giving
or grading exams, or some of the bureaucratic tasks associated with University teaching. We have loved the
freedom of retirement.
3. Is there a favorite memory or two of your faculty colleagues and/or students that stands out as emblematic
of your work in the EKU History Department?
We have many great memories. We enjoyed academic life: reading and discussing history, research, and interacting
with similarly inclined colleagues. We had a compatible Department, many delightful students and years of good
conversation. We remember the charming old University Building with its creaking floors, clanging radiators,
steep stairs and no air conditioning. We remember parties (especially Halloween and election nights) with
students at our house. Gene taught the senior research class and was gratified by many fine research projects.
Nancy taught the senior reading class and cherished the interaction with students in those seminars. These
were required classes. Hence (and some may have said unfortunately) few could avoid the Forderhases, but we
enjoyed the opportunity to know almost all history majors. We occasionally see some of them and encourage
those who visit Richmond to come see us. We will be glad to explain the glories of retirement, but we won’t read
your blue books!
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The Chase Is On...
For the second year in a row, EKU History faculty members Carolyn
Dupont, John Bowes and David Coleman teamed up with a group of
Transylvania University faculty on October 7-8 to run the Bourbon Chase,
a 200 mile overnight relay across Kentucky.
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Catching up with...
Benjamin Fitzpatrick, Ph.D
Ph.D. - University of Notre Dame, 2009
B.A. - Eastern Kentucky University - 1999
Currently - Assistant Professor of History
Morehead State University
1.
What are you doing professionally these days, and
how did your time in the EKU History Department help
prepare you for the work that you do?
Currently I am an assistant professor of history at Morehead
State University. EKU’s history program amply prepared me
for graduate work at the University of Notre Dame, where I
earned my Ph.D. Because my professors taught me the value
of rigorous research and the basic principles of historical
inquiry, I was able to make the transition and be successful
there. Furthermore, my EKU professors were great teachers,
very enthusiastic and knowledgeable. I have essentially taken
them as my role models as a professor.
2.
Is there a particular memory (class, professor, fellow
student or students) that stands out to you in some way as a symbol of your experiences as a student in
the EKU History Department?
What I remember most of all about my time at EKU was how accessible and sharing the professors were with
their time and knowledge. For example, I would often talk to Dr. Mick Lewis and Dr. A.G Dunston about the
teaching profession as well as history in general. I also remember going to lunch and dinner with my fellow
history majors and professors. It was just a great, collegial atmosphere.
3.
What advice would you give to one of today’s EKU History majors?
I would advise the students to wring as much knowledge and experience from the program as possible. Students
can often get tunnel vision: due dates are approaching, more hours at work, etc. Looking back I have to say
that being an undergraduate at EKU was one of the best times of my life. It was an intellectual awakening
in a way. So I would advise students to take advantage of various learning opportunities: listening to guest
lecturers on campus, joining the history club, or just stopping by to visit a professor. Making those types of
connections can make a big difference in how one envisions their history degree.
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Catching up with a few of
our recent alumni...
CRYSTAL ALLEN (2011) is working on an M.A. in Library Science at the University of Kentucky.
THOMAS “T.J.” CLARK (2011) is enrolled in the M.A. in Public Administration program at EKU.
ERIN DIANE COPE (2011) received her bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, in History and English and was
immediately hired at George Rogers Clark High School in Winchester, where she teaches Pre-AP and general English
II classes.
LINDSEY CROSS (2009) is in the Ph.D. program in History at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
HARLEY DAVIDSON (2010) is enrolled in the Ph.D. program in History at the University of Kansas. This year he
received a highly competitive pre-dissertation travel grant from the Council for European Studies, which he used in the
summer of 2011 for a research trip to Valladolid, Spain.
KATHLEEN ELBERSON (2009). SPC Elberson enlisted in the Tennessee National Guard in July 2009 to work in
Military Intelligence. For eighteen months she studied Modern Standard Arabic at the Defense Language Institute,
Foreign Language Center in Monterey, California. Upon graduation from the institute in November 2011, she will
continue training in Texas to complete her assignment as a cryptologic linguist.
TOM FOHL (2005) is a staff sergeant in the U.S. Air Force soon to be assigned to the base RAF Mildenhall in the
United Kingdom. He has been in the service for almost six years. He works as an airborne cryptologic linguist,
proficient in both Hebrew and Farsi.
ANDREW GREER (2009) enlisted in the Marine Corps in November 2009 after graduating from EKU. Currently an
E-4 Corporal, his occupational specialty is field artillery cannoneer.
TAYLOR HOFFMAN (2010) is enrolled in the M.A. program in Public History at Wright State University in Dayton,
OH.
HELEN KAIBARA (M.A. 2010) is pursuing her Ph.D. in Japanese History at Michigan State University.
ROBERT MILLER (2009) is in the Ph.D. program in History at the University of Kansas.
JONATHAN SHERRY (2009) is in the Ph.D. program in History at the University of Pittsburgh.
PATRICK SNYDER (2004) was commissioned as an officer in the US Army upon graduation from EKU. He and his
wife have a 2 1/2-year-old daughter Sophia with another daughter due in March. He returned from commanding in
Iraq in 2010 and immediately took another command which ended in June 2011. In May he will graduate from USMC
Expeditionary Warfare School in Virginia and move on to serve as a Company Tactical Officer working with cadets
at USMA, West Point. Chosen for the Eisenhower Leadership Development Program, he will pursue a master’s in
organizational psychology at Columbia University.
ZACH TRIPLETT (2011) is teaching freshman social studies (civics) and sophomore English at Western Hills High
School in Frankfort.
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Alumni Opportunity
Are you interested in recruiting prospective students in your area to coming to Eastern? The EKU admissions
office is stepping up its recruiting efforts and making better use of EKU alumni. If interested in learning more
about how you might become involved, please send your contact information (Names, address, telephone
number, email address) to the History Department Chair, Chris Taylor at chris.taylor@eku.edu.
Do you know any prospective students who might be interested in coming to Eastern next year or even the
next two or three years? If so, also send their contact information to Chris Taylor as well (Name, address,
telephone number, email address, year in school, and if known area of interest). Remember that if you know of
students who are interested in majoring in History or History Teaching, we can arrange not just a campus visit,
but most days during the week, attending one of our upper division history classes.
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Contact Information
Due to the expense of printing and the tight budget contraints, we have decided to go
exclusively to an online publication. While we know that this may be inconvenient
for some of our alumni we feel that it is the best way for us to continue to stay in
touch with alumni and reach as many future students as possible. Please feel free to
contact us with your comments, concerns, news and updates at the following email
address. You may also send us snail mail at the address listed below.
Email address:
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EKU History Department
324 Keith Building
521 Lancaster Avenue
Richmond, KY 40475
Phone:
859-622-8050
859-622-1357 FAX
Have a great year and we hope to hear from you soon.
Everyone at “Boone’s Dispatch”