Thursday, June 19, 2003
I think I discovered part of the problem for displaying these updates. Some of you are still using Internet Explorer 5.0 which is 1999-era technology. I think it's time to upgrade. It shows up fine on my computer, but I'm using IE 6.0. The computer I'm working on right now still has IE 5.0 and it looks a bit screwy.
I'm writing this from the Harrisburg Public Library just trying to take up some time before tonight's meeting. College officials have moved us to B102, I think, rather than the private dining room, but they say there will be signs posted.
I had to come over to Gallatin County earlier today. Evansville's NBC affiliate WFIE 14 interviewed me (and hopefully others) on our effort to get the Old Slave House reopened. It should be on tonight's 6 p.m. newscast.
I also had a chance to meet with state Rep. Brandon Phelps, D-Norris City, this afternoon at his Harrisburg office. Filled him in on the latest. He supports the plan of action and will talk to his contacts in the governor's office about it. From a political standpoint he knows it's important to have the Legislative Black Caucus on board. In general they are, but we still have to get most of the members updated on the specific plan of action we adopted last Thursday.
The Chicago Defender, one of the oldest African-American-owned newspapers in the country, covered the Black Caucus leadership's efforts in trying to save the Old Slave House in a cover story last month. One of their columnists will be running something else about this house in this weekend's edition. He's aware of the plan of action.
Yesterday I met with Bob Barnett, one of the three county commissioners in Williamson County. He agreed to introduce the resolution to the county board at their next meeting July 8. It's at 10 a.m. at the courthouse if anybody local would like to be there and show their support.
In publishing news, the B. Dalton booksellers in Mount Vernon and Fairview Heights are going to start carrying my Handbook of Old Gallatin County and Southeastern Illinois. Same for the Waldenbooks at Fairview Heights. I'm also hoping to set up a book signing in Evansville, Indiana, next month. I'll be at the Book Fair at Benton High School this Saturday from 10 to 4. Local authors are going to be speaking every 30 minutes. I'm lined up for 10:30 a.m.
Saw in today's Mount Vernon Register-News that another local author is holding a book signing this Saturday. Max Thackrey, Sr., will be signing copies of his book, That Dash of Life, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Times Square Mall in Mount Vernon. Max's book is about growing up between the rural Hamilton County communities of Bungay and Blairsville. Mary Kaye Davis wrote the article. Check it out.
I'm writing this from the Harrisburg Public Library just trying to take up some time before tonight's meeting. College officials have moved us to B102, I think, rather than the private dining room, but they say there will be signs posted.
I had to come over to Gallatin County earlier today. Evansville's NBC affiliate WFIE 14 interviewed me (and hopefully others) on our effort to get the Old Slave House reopened. It should be on tonight's 6 p.m. newscast.
I also had a chance to meet with state Rep. Brandon Phelps, D-Norris City, this afternoon at his Harrisburg office. Filled him in on the latest. He supports the plan of action and will talk to his contacts in the governor's office about it. From a political standpoint he knows it's important to have the Legislative Black Caucus on board. In general they are, but we still have to get most of the members updated on the specific plan of action we adopted last Thursday.
The Chicago Defender, one of the oldest African-American-owned newspapers in the country, covered the Black Caucus leadership's efforts in trying to save the Old Slave House in a cover story last month. One of their columnists will be running something else about this house in this weekend's edition. He's aware of the plan of action.
Yesterday I met with Bob Barnett, one of the three county commissioners in Williamson County. He agreed to introduce the resolution to the county board at their next meeting July 8. It's at 10 a.m. at the courthouse if anybody local would like to be there and show their support.
In publishing news, the B. Dalton booksellers in Mount Vernon and Fairview Heights are going to start carrying my Handbook of Old Gallatin County and Southeastern Illinois. Same for the Waldenbooks at Fairview Heights. I'm also hoping to set up a book signing in Evansville, Indiana, next month. I'll be at the Book Fair at Benton High School this Saturday from 10 to 4. Local authors are going to be speaking every 30 minutes. I'm lined up for 10:30 a.m.
Saw in today's Mount Vernon Register-News that another local author is holding a book signing this Saturday. Max Thackrey, Sr., will be signing copies of his book, That Dash of Life, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Times Square Mall in Mount Vernon. Max's book is about growing up between the rural Hamilton County communities of Bungay and Blairsville. Mary Kaye Davis wrote the article. Check it out.
MT. VERNON — Ever since he was a child, Max Thackrey Sr. had been logging ideas in his mind for a book. He’d always talked about writing one but kept dismissing the idea as impossible.