Drew Lindsey
Stories (10/0)
Most Thankful Thanksgiving Ever
I have been banned from the refrigerator for two reasons. One, I know there are deviled eggs in there for the weekend. Two, my mama knows I know there are deviled eggs in there for the weekend. If confused about the adequacy of those two reasons, you obviously don’t know my mother.
By Drew Lindsey6 years ago in Criminal
In the Monster's Crosshairs
Disclaimer: I can already hear people attacking this piece letter by letter saying I should not write things that frighten people. If you are not interested in reading something that could be described as scary, read no further. If you do continue reading, you forfeit your right to attack me or this piece.
By Drew Lindsey6 years ago in Criminal
A 50-Year-Old Murder
A 50-Year-Old Murder: Why does it matter? My first awareness to the historical controversy surrounding the death of President John F. Kennedy arrived when I was about 12 years old. It may have been on the 30th Anniversary that I listened to my Dad recount his memory of that November weekend of 1963. He recalled it crisply, clearly and I remember it precisely. After graduating from Allen County High in 1962, he found employment at Woodmaster and was at work when the news came that the President had been shot. One of his coworkers told me that Dad left work early that day in tears.
By Drew Lindsey6 years ago in The Swamp
40 Years of the Lady Patriots
The DVD Red, White & Blue Royalty: 40 Years on the Court with Allen County-Scottsville’s Lady Patriots is the result of a year-long oral history project into the history and impact of the longest and most successful athletic program in the history of Allen County, Kentucky. The project that started in January 2014 intended to be over by May 2014. Instead, it continued into September 2014 with interviewees planning vacation days and flights into town to participate. Because it developed into a larger project than planned, I did not have the forethought to seek assistance at that time and hitched along funding the project from my own financial resources yet without incurring any significant debt. The rates given by the KOHC for travel, stipends, volunteers, etc. seem overgenerous to me. I have not used them to calculate my expenses for the sake of the application. I am asking instead for a grant that may serve as a reimbursement for part of my expenses in order to invest in other projects ahead. I hope you will agree I have documented a great story.
By Drew Lindsey6 years ago in Unbalanced
Cedar Rapid Retreat
While my trip to Cedar Rapids to truck driving school did not reap the results intended, on reflection I can share the general premise that it was an valuable learning experience that I will have more to say about as time moves forward. Some things take a certain amount of percolation before I really know what I saw and heard and more importantly—what it means.
By Drew Lindsey6 years ago in Humans
A Grandson’s Tribute
Alma Katherine Hagan was born February 24, 1925 near Strode, Kentucky, the daughter of Erie and Nora Page Hagan. Along with her parents, brothers, sisters and Grandpa Brock Page, the rickety little house a short distance from old Rockbridge School swelled with life on the brink of the Great Depression. They worked hard raising gardens and a family on a tobacco income, moving several times before making a home on the George Carter farm in the curve on highway 1049. Grandma was the seventh of ten children—Neva, Clifton, Glaydell, Odell, Dale, Ruby, Katherine, Sarah, Chloe Eagle and James Wendall—with several not living until adulthood. With the exception of Chloe Eagle, Katherine survived them all. One of her earliest memories was hearing James Wendall crying. He did not live more than a few months.
By Drew Lindsey6 years ago in Families
Flowers & Thistles
Flowers, Thorns and Thistles—Lessons from 1968 By: Andrew L. Hogue It is a fact in history as well as a promise from biblical scripture that “whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.” In taking a retrospective look at the last forty years, this fact becomes more and more evident to me. Reviewing the political wins and losses of each of the two major political parties—the Republicans and the Democrats—I feel it an accurate conclusion to state that this present political climate is one whose beginnings are found not in 2008 but in 1968. I would like to point to some less costly and priceless lessons we ought not to have forgotten from our recent past.
By Drew Lindsey6 years ago in The Swamp
Seventy
Written About My Papa As August 2014 winds to a humid close, the lid to my heart’s cedar chest of memories hearkens back to another August, one distant and cloaked in a recollection inherited from an old soldier of "The Greatest Generation" that I once called Grandpa.
By Drew Lindsey6 years ago in Families
Small Town, Saturday Night
Small Town Saturday Night Nov 16, 2015 Small town Saturday night? Is that how the song goes? A little league football game, the first freeze of fall, news of a fresh Kentucky governor, yet another televised presidential debate and the most brutal murder in Allen County’s two hundred year existence, at least on scale.
By Drew Lindsey6 years ago in Criminal